2AM Session 020: Friend Or Foe

This is a song I wrote for the Friendly Music Jam (https://itch.io/jam/friendly-music-jam).

The theme I chose was to create something reflecting the image in the centre of the artwork.

I decided to contrast the feeling of a pretty landscape with the feeling of monotony from it being your daily life and it being something you're seeing on a regular commute.

Image is from Junchen Zhou on Pexels (https://www.pexels.com/photo/train-and-city-20349040/).

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Ordos Mk.0

Routine

made this for friendly music jam 2024. been a minute since i made anything lofi-related. this was fun :3

trainsong

Train to Taiwan

Track made for the itch(dot)io Friendly Music Jam!

https://itch.io/jam/friendly-music-jam

I followed Theme 2 for this music jam. I started the 24th of March and set down the drums. On the 25th, with the help of my friend Felipe R., recorded the all three guitars and the bass*. Finally, did as much mixing and mastering as I could on the 30th right before submission. 

I really really would've liked to record another bass track with more detail and nuance in the notes played, but my days have been busy. As well as maybe another set of recordings for each guitar to pan left and right (and not drown the lead in so much reverb haha). 

In hindsight, I would've recorded the guitars completely dry and set a day just for FX and fine tuning.

* On this day, while recording the guitars, Felipe realized that the drums and chord changes did not flow well. We decided to remove a verse. So instead of, verse 1 -> verse 2 -> bridge -> chorus, we ended up with verse -> bridge -> chorus. Overall, we removed about 16 bars, but the track flows so much better.

No Reference - Be Pretty & Rot

Urban Jungle

This is a song I made for an itch.io submission! The theme was "lake", so I decided to try and create a song based off of what I imagined.

Sunset on the Lake

Drift By The Lakehouse

thumbnail: https://www.pexels.com/photo/tourist-on-the-terrace-of-a-building-by-the-lake-20324868/

made this song for a music jam on itch.io!

https://itch.io/jam/friendly-music-jam-2

i decided to only do the first prompt, which was to make a song based off of the thumbnail. i found that it was serene, but also sort of melancholic--sort of like an old memory.

No Reference - Be Pretty & Rot

No Reference

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