I love this. Buying now. Then sharing.

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Was waiting for “Bandcamp Friday” to pre-order the vinyl…

This sounds (and looks, our 2yo daughter loves the video for Ferris Wheel!) fantastic! Congrats!

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Digging Rooftop Dancing a lot!
Can’t wait for the release! :blue_heart:

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thanks @jacobino for posting the rooftop video! there are a couple more songs that will come out before release date, i’ll try and remember to update the thread.

@bobbcorr nothing too crazy technique-wise, but there is a ton more of my modular on this record than anything we’ve done before. a bunch of the songs started as long recordings of morphagene / phonogene / 3sis jams that i’d clock from ableton and then break up into smaller loops and compositions. I also used the fm transmission trick i talked about over in the lofi techniques thread on several of the songs, there’s even one song where the entire mix was printed through the radio while i added some prophet live as it printed - we thought it would just be the demo but ended up using it as the final track. tbh most of the things we did were just the final product of techniques i’ve been trying and failing to fully execute for a long time, like printing a portion of the mix through a room mic or the multiple vocoder example above. also generally much more OTB vs ITB, which has been a shift for me.

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Outstanding! That has to be really satisfying for you - life is good.

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Loving this, lovely thing to wake up to on a Monday morning! I think the past few years are pushing some artists to make really “fun” tunes and if that’s the case for y’all then you def hit the mark right on target.

Also the Ferris Wheel video made me miss dancing so so much :pleading_face: Wish I could go to a class or even out to a club

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These tracks made my day. Thanks!!!

The Animal Crossing “Ferris Wheel” music video is super cute :slight_smile:

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another new single & video out today, here’s ‘frequency’ directed by Moses Sumney.

the track is built on a modular improvisation I did running chords from my op-1 (the patch was based on the old Casio trick of sampling your voice singing a single note) into a phonogene, then sequencing it with white whale and modulating the vca with a crossfade btw envelopes from jf and a sample & hold from wogglebug. again did the fm transmitter trick with the vocals and parts of the mix (you can hear it fade in right before the two 808 drops)

thanks as always!

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This is phenomenal on so many levels.

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Wow! That’s great. Great song. Great sounds. Great video. I love how you (song after song) manages to combine so much experiment with catchy melodic popsongs. Thanks also for letting us in on your process – it so inspiring!

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Long time lurker, but this finally got me to sign up:

As soon as I heard the opening hook I recognized it from somewhere in the back of my head, and spent a while trying to figure it out.
Finally managed to track is down as from video you posted on Instagram in 2016(!!): https://www.instagram.com/p/BG4ocrutIiJ/ Really cool to see that make its way into such a song 4 years later.

Song & video are both incredible, even more excited for the album now

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This is so frigging awesome… and as Matt says, on so many levels

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Give me the album already

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whoa good ear / great sleuthing - yeah songs for us sometimes take literal years to go from initial spark to final version. this one came back up in the early stages of working on this record when we went digging through a folder of improvisations, we had always wanted to do something with it and Amelia ended up writing the entire thing over that long loop.

thanks for the kind words everyone!

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Hey Nick-

When you’re working with modular stuff on a structured record like this, how do you go about recalling patches for performances, revisions to the song, etc? (Or do you even). Do you keep patch notes? Start over? Rework the material in the DAW?

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I don’t do any recall in the traditional sense, esp with phonogene/morphagene it’s just too complicated and (knowing myself) it’d lead to me wasting time trying to perfect something after the fact rather than committing to a sound on the front end. if it’s something that starts on the modular, like that song above, I’ll record as I’m improvising and once it’s at a place where I’m pretty sure I’ll want to have it for later I’ll either break out parts of the patch to separate outputs and record it as stems or go through the voices of the patch and ‘solo’ out each section for a while so that I can cut them apart later and rearrange in a daw. i tend to clock the modular from Ableton (or pam’s sometimes) when I improvise just so that I’ll know that it’s locked to a grid/bpm and will be easy to develop on top of later.

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That’s a great idea re: stemming out the voices. Thanks!

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last single before the release on friday, here’s ‘free’:

printed the whole mix through an fm transmitter on this one

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You all put together something really beautiful here, Friday can’t come soon enough.

Thanks for this. :pray:t4:

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