A FETID VORTEX OF SUN-DESTROYING CRAP

Two musical minds meet, in the deepest reaches of space....

The title, of course, grew out of this comment from davejay, and the rest is interstellar rock history. Cortex provided SUN-DESTROYING drums, with yours truly, flapjax at midnite, providing the rest of the FETID VORTEX.

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posted by flapjax at midnite (16 comments total)

*genuflects*

Man, I love those synth patches.
posted by umbú at 8:12 PM on January 31, 2011

Not only is this great, but it's also the 500th challenge entry!

We've come such a long way.
posted by ORthey at 9:17 PM on January 31, 2011 [1 favorite]

Not only is this great, but it's also the 500th challenge entry!

Wow!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:37 PM on January 31, 2011

Woot! I regret being such a timewaster on my end of this; I didn't get drums to flapjax until the better half of the month was gone, and then he turned around the rest of this horrible wonderful thing pretty promptly after that and I frittered away the remaining days that I'd meant to spend adding some highlights not getting around to doing said adding. Ah, well.

It was weird but fun to be laying down drums in a vacuum. I've really never done that; even when I mostly start with drums on a recording, I'll have an arrangement in mind and maybe a scratch reference track to play again. Certainly there's a specific arrangement that I'm playing against, something to attach rough verse/chorus/verse pattern and dynamic changes to. So this was an interesting experiment. It was nice to be able to hand the results off to someone else and not have to worry about being the one to make it work, I'll say that.
posted by cortex at 9:46 PM on January 31, 2011

...even when I mostly start with drums on a recording, I'll have an arrangement in mind and maybe a scratch reference track to play again.

And that shows, because what cortex sent me actually had such a clear structural character to it. Aside from one little looped "pause" (at 02:14), I did no cutting/pasting/editing/deleting of any kind on the drum part. So the form was there from the beginning, and it was easy to just throw all this stuff on top of it. Fun, too!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:21 PM on January 31, 2011

Those synths are not at all what I was expecting when I came over here.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 1:12 AM on February 1, 2011

"At last, earthlings, you've managed to develop some sort of listenable music. I wonder if that could stand as a proof that you're sensible beings."


Vikingsword's distant cousin from Alpha Centauri, upon hearing this piece of work though the windshield of his flying saucer, as he was getting close to our solar system, on his way to some poshy interstellar vacation location.
posted by nicolin at 1:50 AM on February 1, 2011 [1 favorite]

Those synths are not at all what I was expecting when I came over here.

Heh heh! I'll let y'all in on a secret: the synth I used here is this.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:37 AM on February 1, 2011

That is awesome.
posted by Shepherd at 2:47 AM on February 1, 2011

Man, that drum track just pounds... this is fun.
posted by uncleozzy at 5:42 AM on February 1, 2011

Flapjax, you sound so much like Zorak... especially when you're chanting "crap crap crap crap" - I'm still kind of rolling. 100% silly fun.

And I am ordering a Monotron today.
posted by mintcake! at 8:21 AM on February 1, 2011

OHMYGODAWESOME

Nice drum solo of sorts there towards the end, cortex!
posted by Corduroy at 2:03 PM on February 1, 2011

This shit is VITAL!!!! This is either absurdly perfect or perfectly absurd! WTC, I love it!
posted by snsranch at 4:18 PM on February 1, 2011

And I am ordering a Monotron today.

You'll love it, mintcake. I highly recommend them: for their size, damn, they really pack a punch. And you can carry 'em anywhere!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:18 PM on February 1, 2011

I briefly wondered if that might be the 'tron -- you mentioned somewhere that you had one -- but the sounds you got seemed too varied and thick to be that little thing.

I actually have one, but I haven't gotten around to doing anything with it.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 5:33 PM on February 1, 2011

most excellent. and kinda unexpected. but what was i expecting?
posted by peterkins at 3:56 PM on February 2, 2011