RobinsonCruz
(Nottingham)
Friday 19 Jun 2026, 10:33pm
Have you ever had one of those DAW sessions, maybe a night or over a few days, where you start from some riff in the kitchen on the acoustic that starts modelling in 4/4, then 3/4, then 5/4, and then finally settling on 5/8, that you didn't really ask for but it's got something. So you record it into the DAW on a Saz with a click, needs drums, you make a simple pattern like Bonzo struggling. Then you hit the bass, and it's a fat dirty driving line that wants to push, so you throw it in - but it takes over everything. So you strip away the Saz and just have the DnB together with an omm sample for texture. Then you've wasted the Saz, we can't have this! You cut open the spaces in the bass and find a home for the Saz as verses between it. But it doesn't feel right, so you add a polyrhythmic synth 3-note bassline under the Saz, adding some sparkle above, cut the drums and you've essentially got a song. Lame f*ck around?
Two days later you're looking at the merge .sng of your album, it's just... wait - there it is - the sunset Saz gets its place as opener on the B-side. How does that happen? Why? Was my brain's plan to swap out a nice built bit of incidental music for a monster of a track? We can't know. What we can know is you'll be able to hear the jam of it now on youtube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxiwQY0AR08
Tell me that's not got legs? ^
So I'm sitting here now wondering if it's enough to pull a male vocalist out the ether, the nowhere deserts, borderlands between wakefulness and sleeping? Even if he's just confidence enough to do backing against our lead singer, and they can play an acoustic/electric to a middling standard.
I'm stoned, the merge mix needs turning into a -14 LUFS with a sweet 13.4 LRA, and uploading to the channel. 46 minutes of something from elsewhere.
Good luck fellow musos.
May your DAW never crash and your takes be firsts.
Boring Dystopia.