new song, "nice night for a cat fight"

did a another new, not so amazing song. i think i'll be taking a short break from making songs for a while until i find a different angle. as much as i like playing over these kinds of songs, they're all starting to sound a little mundane. i probably won't be making much the next few weeks anyway since i'm moving back home from japan and i'll be busy as fuck. so anyway, about the song...

these stray cats where going nuts the other night down below my apartment (i'm on the 8th floor), so i set my recorder on the balcony for a while to record them near the end of their romp. kind of far away and hard to hear, but i thought they added nicely to the ambience of the warm spring night.

i also had some samples i recorded of me playing a kerosene heater with my brushes a few months ago. the grill around the heating element made some cool sounds, so i brought my recorder when no one was around and recorded me banging on stuff. there was also a broken-down drum kit in the storage room, so i recorded some shit on that, too. i've had these samples around for a while and wanted to use them on something, so i thought i'd throw them all together over this spring night ambience and see how they sounded.

next, i put a single, sustaining note on this hammond organ vst called "nubi plus" and automated the drawbars to fade in and out randomly to make a nice drone. hammond vsts aren't normally used like this, but they're basically just crude, primitive additive synths, so they're fun to mess around with in odd ways.

for the trombone, i used a scale that i think is from bali, though i'm not sure. even if it is, they probably tune it microtonally in bali, whereas i just snap all the notes to their closest western counterparts 'cause i already have enough trouble with intonation as it is without having to think microtonally and shit. in e, the scale is this: e, g, a, c#, d, e. this scale is cool 'cause it sounds like a minor pentatonic but has a major 6 instead of a perfect 5 to make it sound a little brighter or something. mmm... i like major 6ths these days. they give me a chubby.

i also did something i've never done before with the trombone part. i used a delay with the dry sound panned hard right and the delayed sound panned hard left (or was it the other way around?). i delayed the left side by about 200ms to make it sound obvious. this isn't like a big amazing trick or anything, but i'd just never gotten around to doing it on trombone. i like how it seems to make the trombone part sound outside and disconnected from the rest of the sounds.

yeah, so that's it. nothing super amazing musically or producation-wise on this one, but it's kinda nice. enjoy it or die.