(Weird Progressive Electronica) - Giant Space Squid

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TritoneAddiction
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05 Aug 2022

This is a weird one. It's mainly built around sonic experimentation, rather than conventional song writing. Most instruments are drenched in different effects.
Some of the most prominent instruments and effects used in this track: Parsec, Megasaur, Oberon, Snakebite, Europa, Crapre2, Echobode.


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09 Aug 2022

Updated the mix. The track is now completely finished. No more tweaks. :puf_smile:

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09 Aug 2022

I love the texture of the sounds!

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wowhow wrote:
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I love the texture of the sounds!
Thanks. Yeah this track is like 65% about the sounds and 35% about the actual song writing.

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09 Aug 2022

I like the song writing too.

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09 Aug 2022

This is really cool especially since this gets into the weird industrial territory I've recently been drawn to. I'd be interested to hear more about how you used Echobode on this track. I've had my eye on that RE for a while now and haven't pulled the trigger since it never goes on sale.

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wowhow wrote:
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I like the song writing too.
Thanks. :puf_smile: I'm quite happy with the track, not strictly for the end result, but because I tried out many new things while making it.

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strangers wrote:
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This is really cool especially since this gets into the weird industrial territory I've recently been drawn to. I'd be interested to hear more about how you used Echobode on this track. I've had my eye on that RE for a while now and haven't pulled the trigger since it never goes on sale.
Thanks. I haven't payed nearly enough attention to Echobode as I should. It would be interesting to dive into effects like Echobode and Fritz and make patches for them, like I've started doing with synths nowadays. Some day.

These are the two sounds I've used it on. It creates this delay/stutter effect. I'm simply turning up the wet knob at the end of the phrase as you can hear. Both have a bunch of other effects too (unison, phaser, distortion etc). So those things are not Echobodes doing.


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10 Aug 2022

Perfect track for a certain scene in a certain movie!
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Perfect track for a certain scene in a certain movie!
Thanks for checking it out. Yep I experience this track as a bunch of different scenes. For me it's a very visual track.

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11 Aug 2022

TritoneAddiction wrote:
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RTFX wrote:
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Perfect track for a certain scene in a certain movie!
Thanks for checking it out. Yep I experience this track as a bunch of different scenes. For me it's a very visual track.
For me too! I like that approach.
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18 Aug 2022

As a big fan of early Industrial this track sounds so cool to me. I love all the little "arpy" sounds in between those huge drums. Awesome job on this man!
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As a big fan of early Industrial this track sounds so cool to me. I love all the little "arpy" sounds in between those huge drums. Awesome job on this man!
Thanks. I had to spend quite a bit of time on this one, so that's cool to hear it payed off. Yeah those drums are anything but clean. So much processing going on :puf_smile:

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20 Aug 2022

not only giant in name ! :lol:

Nice ghostly trip !
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Uman's wrote:
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not only giant in name ! :lol:

Nice ghostly trip !
Thanks :puf_smile:

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27 Aug 2022

Really nice sound design as others have commented. The atmosphere is intense on this one; nearly panic inducing (but in a good way of course...).

Nice work!

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28 Aug 2022

I wanted to hate it, I really did. But it is a cool track, so can't. Reminded me a bit of Prodigy too. Nice job!!!
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aerodactylus_ wrote:
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Really nice sound design as others have commented. The atmosphere is intense on this one; nearly panic inducing (but in a good way of course...).

Nice work!
Thanks. Interesting, never experienced the song as "nearly panic inducing" myself, but we all feel music differently. :puf_smile:

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I wanted to hate it, I really did. But it is a cool track, so can't. Reminded me a bit of Prodigy too. Nice job!!!
Glad you like it. Just curious, what part of the music reminded you of Prodigy? They've often been a source of musical inspiration for me, but for this track I didn't feel any direct influence from them. Perhaps the influence is just there without me even noticing it.

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28 Aug 2022

TritoneAddiction wrote:
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Perhaps the influence is just there without me even noticing it.
Isn't that how inspiration works in most cases? :puf_smile:
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TritoneAddiction wrote:
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Perhaps the influence is just there without me even noticing it.
Isn't that how inspiration works in most cases? :puf_smile:
Probably. But in some cases an influence can be very intentional, like a conscious choice, at least for me. :puf_smile:

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28 Aug 2022

TritoneAddiction wrote:
28 Aug 2022
Propellerhands wrote:
28 Aug 2022
I wanted to hate it, I really did. But it is a cool track, so can't. Reminded me a bit of Prodigy too. Nice job!!!
Glad you like it. Just curious, what part of the music reminded you of Prodigy? They've often been a source of musical inspiration for me, but for this track I didn't feel any direct influence from them. Perhaps the influence is just there without me even noticing it.
These weird, hard to describe, perhaps detuned sounds between 1:11 and 1:15 and so on. I would have no idea how to even create such effective mess and Prodigy tracks are notorious (in a good way ofc) for such synths/leads
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28 Aug 2022

TritoneAddiction wrote:
28 Aug 2022
Probably. But in some cases an influence can be very intentional, like a conscious choice, at least for me. :puf_smile:
Same here, absolutely. That's why I said 'in most cases' :thumbup: :puf_bigsmile:
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crimsonwarlock wrote:
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TritoneAddiction wrote:
28 Aug 2022
Probably. But in some cases an influence can be very intentional, like a conscious choice, at least for me. :puf_smile:
Same here, absolutely. That's why I said 'in most cases' :thumbup: :puf_bigsmile:
My bad. Yes you actually said that. Guess I didn't read too thoroughly. :D

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TritoneAddiction wrote:
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crimsonwarlock wrote:
28 Aug 2022
Same here, absolutely. That's why I said 'in most cases' :thumbup: :puf_bigsmile:
My bad. Yes you actually said that. Guess I didn't read too thoroughly. :D
I didn't want to correct you, just to put my 'in most cases' in line with your 'in some cases', hence the thumbs-up :puf_smile:
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