"Let's Face the Music!" 

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/0rumOoxeGHc

A song I made & played only with my Yamaha Motif ES8 and Yamaha Montage 8, played through their Lo-Fi effects. Every instrument part was played by me as audio one or two at a time on top of a Motif  stock drum beat and recorded straight into Montage's audio recorder on a USB stick. However, all but the electric piano & lead sound part were recorded as short one minute audio clips which I then mixed & sampled together etc. 

I first laid down the drum & bass lines (the bass comes from Motif and the pad sound is Montage's "PWM Ensemble" FM-X patch). I then overdubbed some Prophet style horns from Motif ES8 and an awesome "DX Designer" patch from Montage. After that I overdubbed two layers of vocals through some Motif's patches & effects and Montage's Vocoder after which I recorded the keyboard part using Motif's "Chorusdyno" patch and the background lead sound using Motif's "Singleline" patch layered with Montage's "Chillin' Ibiza" FM-X patch. 

It all started only as a short one minute jam exercise and I wasn't meaning to make a song out of it, but then one thing lead to another.. and I decided to try to make it into a song. Kind of "groundbreaking" for me was that this is the first song were I finally got to sing a bit (although through Vocoder effect:) and also that now I mainly recorded everything as "live" without any midi sequencing (except for the drum part). 

Everything was run through Motif's and Montage's Lo-Fi effects and especially through UADx 1176LN Rev A & E compressor and ValhallaVintageVerb plugins and iZotope Neutron & Ozone. Mixed and mastered in Cubase Pro with significant help from iZotope Neutron & Ozone.


The chorus could go something like this: 

Let's face the music 
Beneath the moonlit sky
Let's face the music 
Beneath the moonlit sky
I see it in your eyes
Only you and I 
... 

Right here in my arms
You make my world go 'round
Let's face the music

Here are links to the last of the "making of" videos on Instagram and YouTube: 
- https://www.instagram.com/p/DFDAnXTyEMu/ 
- https://youtube.com/shorts/tCO_HOzuBck?si=7cnZ16Gymv6kGbS-

Lets Face The Music

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THE BEAT AT 400 AM

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Synchromysticism

Ayurveda

Autumn Reawakening

Lyrics & vocals Sarah Golding.

Written, performed, mixed & mastered by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2025

In August 2025, Sarah Golding wrote to me that she really liked my
instrumental track "Those Times Are Gone",
released 3 years ago, and was interested in writing some lyrics for it.
I was immediately excited by the idea, as I'm a huge fan of Sarah's
catchy and genre-spanning voice.
However, at first, I couldn't imagine how well it would work with a
pre-produced instrumental track.

After Sarah wrote the lyrics and we exchanged the first drafts,
it was clear that it worked very well.
Since the track got a new twist, thanks to Sarah's great lyrics,
a new title was obviously needed.
Now we are delighted to present our first colab: "Affinity !"
Enjoy :)

Find more of Sarah Golding's wonderful work here:
https://soundcloud.com/voiceofgolding
https://www.youtube.com/@voiceofgolding

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Lyrics:

Sun on the road, late November haze
Pulled into your driveway and you met me at the gate
And we kissed without saying a word
Took it too fast
But if it was a bad idea 
It was news to us

It's gonna be, gonna be you and I forever
Said your eternal eyes
It's gotta be, gotta be magic chemistry
This affinity, affinity

You save the best for last
You find it in the last place you try 
Games get you nowhere
You might as well just dive… in
Into the water
of a phosphorescent tide 
We may grow old
But we will never die

It's gonna be, gonna be you and I forever
Said your eternal eyes
It's gotta be, gotta be magic chemistry
This affinity, this affinity

It's gonna be, gonna be you and I forever
Said your eternal eyes
It's gotta be, gotta be magic chemistry
This affinity, affinity

That time is gone, that time is gone
But we go on

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Image: Sarah Golding & pixabay.com

Instruments:
- Full Bucket FB-7999
- e-phonic Invader 2
- Synapse Dune 3
- TAL U-NO-LX
- Lennar Digital "Sylenth 1"
- u-he Diva
- u-he Repro-1
- u-he Repro-5
- AmpleSound "Gibson Les Paul 1958"
- AAS Strum GS-2

Affinity

Equanimity

My father (1964) and I...he, like me, loved music his entire life. He played bass in various bands. He started with the double bass, later switching to the electric bass. We shared a passion, and he was always a role model for me. He loved jazz, swing, and big band the most...and I will never forget you.

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