R.I.P.1.0.3. Double Upload Bonanza

That's right; two tracks for the price of none (which is FREE)!

Well, ok, one finished track and one demo recording but y'know, details.

First, and foremost, you can check the finished track (and the lengthy description of it) out on the R.I.P.1.0.3. page of the site!

And now, for the demo:

DEMO TRACK

Return of the Living Dead (Zombies 2) [Visor Jack's Betamax Nightmares Remix] (Demo)

originally by Hervé

Next to Fake Blood, Hervé is one of the largest Bass House/Twitch House/Fidget House et. al producers to have influenced my own take on those very genres, and several of his originals and remixes have found their way onto my 'favourite songs' list. One of the songs off his debut album, Return of the Living Dead (Zombies 2), really grabbed me with the atmosphere it manages to create (very simple in its construction and composition as it is), and not too long after first hearing it I knew I wanted to try my hand at remixing it at some point. Doing it for R.I.P.1.0.3. was pretty much a given because, y'know, Zombies innit.

Believe it or not, I considered attempting the song under another alias at least a couple of times before going with Visor Jack. I considered giving it a freeform techno spin under the Decon Theed name for a little bit, and flirted with the idea of Big Beat-ing it up as MIGHTY-MACHine, too. Ultimately I went with Visor Jack, with the aim of making it one of the biggest, baddest, boomiest tracks I've done under that name as of yet.

Which is where I wound up hitting a pretty major hurdle; the original song's "bassy sections" use the same refrain that the breakdowns use for their construction, and I wanted to go a little outside the box and write new basslines for it instead. Nothing I really tried was working, though; the patterns I was coming up with were either kinda dull and limp, or manic in a way that didn't really feel like it connected with what came before. I was also coming up against the dreaded Sample Memory Limit due to how many externals I'd loaded into the thing, and the thought of having to chop a lot of stuff out after using it only once wasn't sitting right with me (that sort of thing doesn't always bother me, but on tracks like this I like to have at least half the elements and sounds stay consistent and keep the variation to things like the bass samples). In the end, I made the tough choice to drop the remix for now and attempt it another time- there are other ideas I wanted to get to, so I didn't want to be hung up on something that was going nowhere for days on end.

That it would still take nearly two weeks to get a finished second track out is an irony that is not lost on me, bee tee dubs.

For comparisons sake, you can listen to the original track below:

~ Decon Theed (12/10/18)