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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Extinct: the Steller's sea cow (THE WEB & CXXXVI - Ghost Of The Sea)

2020 was a crazy year with that pandemic raging and the measures that had to be taken to prevent the health system from crashing. A year at home, basically; i worked in home office from march till end of the year. Could have thought this would have been perfect to produce a lot of tracks and videos, but somehow i missed the creativity boost... I preferred to go out and do a lot of walkies instead. However, there was a track that i had started a long time ago, and when Cat came up with the idea of starting another series of tracks, an EP dedicated to extinct animals, i finally resumed work on it. She told me the idea she had for the first track, it would be about Steller's sea cow, a huge sirenian that lived in the Bering Sea and went extinct some 250 years ago.

As i started that track on a 136 bpm grid, i decided something like an old school techno trance style would fit, with some bubbly or watery sounds and a swirling bassline popping in and out. I finished it and sent it over to Cat. She provided me her vocals, singing along the track and softening my rigid arrangement on the 8's and 16's. The result might be somewhat conventional. I'd say it's a pleasant track, with a lovely flow. But still got the WEB&CXXXVI stamp on it - some darkness and deepness, plus Cat's distinctive voice and way of singing.

The track was finished end of October 2020, and came up on Soundcloud and IndieMusicPeople. But of course, it needed the proper track video too. As always. Took a lot of work to fill the whole 8 and a half minutes with scenes that relate not only to the sound and mood, but also to the lyrics. Finally, just before Christmas, we finished it and could upload it on Youtube and Vimeo.

Click to listen to "THE WEB & CXXXVI - Ghost Of The Sea" on SC

 

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