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霜月

from OP Works I by The-O

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Track 4 is "shimotsuki," the name for the eleventh month in the old Japanese lunar calendar. I wrote this one on November 29th, which bizarrely enough is “good meat” day thanks to being able to read two as "ni" and nine as "ku" which together make "niku," put the "ii" from 11 in front and there you go. Awww you Japanese are so kawaii as fuck, you make me just wanna kill the whole lot of you. Anyway. Yeah. Couldn’t think up of any crafty names for the track so I went with "shimotsuki." Literally translated it means the month of frost. Sounds about right. This track began with me coming to grips with the arpeggiator function in the sequencer section. I set the thing to hold, then went about tweaking the filter, uh, which isn’t called a filter (natch) but is some weirdo effect that works like a multimode filter with resonance. Anyway, I made a rather long loop from that. Next was some plinking around with an FM sound I think. Then a sorta pad-like sound. Next I overdubbed the last track three or four times using a low droney FM patch for two takes, then a rather abrasive analog synth kinda patch for two takes. Yay. I used a mix of full speed and half speed recording, and played it back at half speed.

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from OP Works I, released December 20, 2017

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