Extinct: the Dodo (THE WEB & CXXXVI - Years Of Wisdom)

After the first track of a new WEB&CXXXVI series dedicated to animals that went extinct not that long ago - 'Ghost Of The Sea'; it was about Steller's sea cow - there should be more to follow. As Cat and I decided to work on this new series 'ping-pong' style again, and as I had started with the music on the first track, it was her turn to send me a song. I got her vocals in February 2021. Now the animal in focus would be the Dodo bird.

As I didn't feel very creative at the time and had quite a lot going on at work, it wasn't till July when I started play around with some rhythm patterns for the track. Cat had sung on a 120bpm grid, and I decided to go with some slow breaks. I found a good bass synth pattern to go with it - and then got stuck again... It was November 2021 when I was looking up some sounds that researchers figured out the dodo could have made and that I could use for the track. Finally the flow kicked in, and I finished the track in December 2021.

Over Christmas and new year 2021/2022 I had some holidays and lots of time to work on the video. Cat provided me some cool artsy video scenes for it too, and among them was a scene with the dodo,having an eye as a body, and the words 'Extinct' on it. We decided that would be the name and the cover of the series.
The track video was released on 6th of January 2022 and completes the work on the second track.

 

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Birdman - another YT collab in 2021

Sometime in spring 2021, my friend JP (he had changed his name Darkobert Dub to Kaiser Nvtron) and I were emailing back and fourth about that cool bird that is the loudest ever recorded - the White Bellbird, found in the Amazon in South America. That call is amazing, and I think it was JP who suggested that it should be used in a track once. I totally agreed, and as we had collaborated before for the Reload Remix, and thought it was about time to do another track together, we decided to give it a go: he would send me his draft of a track with the track layers, and I would build something on that basis, adding sounds and expanding it to proper length.

Shortly after, JP came about that famous interview of Charlie Sheen, and as he loves to add vocal samples in his track, JP included some portions of it in his draft. In May 2021, I got his stuff and started to work on it. I added some fat distorted drums, a high arpeggio-like piano line (I know JP loves that :-) and some stuttering synth cord patterns, and arranged the whole lot around the vocal samples. The final track had sounds not only from the White Bellbird, but also the Three-wattled Bellbird. I used that one for the cover pic too and I put the track on my Soundcloud. JP had uploaded it on his YT channel with some nice earth footage shot from ISS, but as in the meantime he had retreated from YT / put his stuff on private, it's not available anymore. I might do a clip for my channel sometime in the future and add it here once it's done...
Just listen and enjoy the wacky birdman :-)

 

Click to listen and download Kaiser Nvtron & THE WEB - Birdman on Soundcloud

 

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