DSound Needs an Anthem: "Powering Up" - Original EDM Track by DRUMOPERATOR
DSound and Steemit needed an inspirational EDM anthem during these volatile times and Drumoperator is here to provide. Keep powering up, Steem nation!
This track took me about three days to produce and is the first time I've tried to hybridize samples and the modular synth. I grew way too attached to my triplet delay guitar samples (despite them sounding decided Sega Genesis-y) and generously layered them in with the dual Tiptop Dixie oscillators driving the stereo leads into the Mutable Instruments Clouds. Cwejman again on the bass which is being run through an Earthquaker Devices Hoof for some grit and verb'd gently on the Make Noise Erbeverb. I played some acoustic drums over this and it lost all of its slick 80s vibe, so the Oberheim DMX (my absolute favorite drum machine, forever) ended up going the distance. Paging through Dsound after the fact, I'm realizing I need to master -vastly- more aggressively for the platform, so turn this one up!
Here's where the modular ended up for this patch. Note the Hoof, doing work, as always.
LYRICS:
In the clutch of silence
The precipice of fear
With the dim reminder
A future draws near
Communicate the message
A new day has dawned
Compensate the masses
Empower them in song
We’re powering, steem powering
Devouring
We are powering up
We’re tiring, perspiring
So tiring
It’s still worth powering up
Acquiring, requiring
Aspiring
So we are powering up
Inspiring, inquiring
So inspiring
As we're are powering up
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Good soundtrack to upvote :D
I aim to make upvoting a cardio-intensive experience.
Badass tune, man. I can totally picture this as a theme song for the Saturday morning cartoon about totally rad Dsound dudes that fight corporate scum of the evil SoundMist corp
Thanks dude! I am really enjoying the platform and community building around it.
This is so unapologetically 80's, I love it. I would absolutely vote this to be a DSound anthem 😆
Original working title was a Killing Joke pun : )
If nothing else it can be an anthem for getting a multiband limiter across your two bus and mastering aggressively to Dsound. So annoyed by how quietly I printed the master.
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Great tune! Like OMD meets Daft Punk. How will you remember those patches on that modular system? ;-)