LONDON DAYS | ORIGINAL STEEMIT MUSIC! | DANCE/RAVE/ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTAL

Just wrote this song while at my friend's

on the ol' laptop with Ableton! I decided after the last track I shared to make a song in the same vein, but really fill it in and make it sound decent.

I started with the drum track,

and spent some time with each piece of the kit, EQing, adding reverb and some effects, and a little bit of gating to get it all sounding nice. The bass that holds out a long note is sidechained to the kick to allow it to come through and be audible, but still blended. The snare is sidechained to the dance synth polyrhythm, since that's in the mid range; it helps the snare to shine through but not overpower the synth.

There are two bass tones,

one that just holds a half note at the beginning and middle of each bar, and another that comes in after that with two syncopated notes (sometimes 3, you can hear it bounce with the drum beat). They are super bassy and definitely filled in the low end of this song nicely.

Above that, we have two other synth tones,

which help fill in the midrange. One is keeping a harmony going (i i VI III, VI VI iv VII), and the other is the polyrhythm of 11 over 8, which is the super dancey, UK rave synth. They both continue for most of the track. I was trying to emulate a live DJ set but by actually just composing a song, so that requires incorporating some serious repetition. If this was performed live, the build ups could go on for a lot longer, and the main dance parts could go on FOREVER haha. I condensed it down to 2 minutes so you can get the basic idea.

Enjoy the song, and as always, thanks for the support and the listens!

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