Loud Sounds 110
Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Powder
Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an American dreampop band that released its debut album in 2009 and continues to deliver. Powder is the newest single. It brings together hypercharged rhythmic patterns that are constantly changing, 80s-tinged guitars, pulsing bass and ethereal vocals.
Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an American dreampop band that released its debut album in 2009 and continues to deliver. Powder is the newest single. It brings together hypercharged rhythmic patterns that are constantly changing, 80s-tinged guitars, pulsing bass and ethereal vocals.
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Inwards – Moonscape
Moonscape from Worcestershire-based artist Inwards is notable for its repetitive sections played on two in-the-box FM synths. The parts sound like a crossover between Balinese folk music and the works of French minimalist composers.
Moonscape from Worcestershire-based artist Inwards is notable for its repetitive sections played on two in-the-box FM synths. The parts sound like a crossover between Balinese folk music and the works of French minimalist composers.
Kristian Shelley
The track is a lost idea dug up out of an old hard drive that I found on a cold January night. I have no idea when I started this track and had no recollection of making the original idea.
The idea was just a shell and was the melodic part of the track. It was made on a Yamaha DX7 Emulator and also Ableton's 'Operator'. These two powerful FM synthesisers are basically talking to each other here. It's quite a realistic recreating of bells and metallic objects being struck. It was a great beginning of an idea but had no real movement. It's actually kind of reminding me of gamelan music, the texture of sound feels similar to me. The tuning is pretty odd. There's a bunch of weirdo harmonics and overtones involved. None are thought out at all in any way just throwing things together and seeing what works.
The next challenge was to create some opposing sections of the track to move between, which I did by adding a bassline and drum patterns. This was the final part of the production stage and the track pulled together quite fast after this point. Drums coming from elektrons RYTM and wavetable action coming from the mini freak.
I love the track. It's a slightly new sound for me, along with the other track on this EP. The sounds are very clean and the structures of songs are more straightforward but they still have the Inwards haziness.
The idea was just a shell and was the melodic part of the track. It was made on a Yamaha DX7 Emulator and also Ableton's 'Operator'. These two powerful FM synthesisers are basically talking to each other here. It's quite a realistic recreating of bells and metallic objects being struck. It was a great beginning of an idea but had no real movement. It's actually kind of reminding me of gamelan music, the texture of sound feels similar to me. The tuning is pretty odd. There's a bunch of weirdo harmonics and overtones involved. None are thought out at all in any way just throwing things together and seeing what works.
The next challenge was to create some opposing sections of the track to move between, which I did by adding a bassline and drum patterns. This was the final part of the production stage and the track pulled together quite fast after this point. Drums coming from elektrons RYTM and wavetable action coming from the mini freak.
I love the track. It's a slightly new sound for me, along with the other track on this EP. The sounds are very clean and the structures of songs are more straightforward but they still have the Inwards haziness.
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