PSFMer - House of Spike [Lofi House]

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My submission for DustCar 18, topic being Lofi. Always wanted to try out doing some lofi stuff and jumped at this opportunity. Yes, that is Spike saying 'house' fifty times. I contemplated making a full length club mix for this, but I think the intro and outro are loopable enough for a dj the extend it however they like.

For this, I wanted to go for a dancey feel, but also have lots of low end weight and movement. Made a sine wave in serum and then used maxxbass to get a bunch of harmonics going, and got a kind of fat tone out of the bass. I realised that it's important to choose a suitable kick sample, one that doesn't clash horribly with a deep bassline. Ended up choosing a kick that hits a little bit higher on the frequency spectrum which doesn't interfere much with the bassline, and used sidechain compression to duck the sub out of the way.

Also learned the huge huge importance of the 'rule of pairs', which recommends that pairs of elements must exit and enter between phrases. This is so that each phrase feels different enough and the listener gets the sense that a new musical idea/phrase has arrived. Important for preventing things from becoming too stale. I have been applying this guideline in my tracks some time ago, but it seemed doubly important for genres like house, where it can get boring if nothing changes much.

And then there's the crazy trick with the 909 ride. Just adding that 909 ride shimmer in the background really adds a whole bunch of excitement to the track. I've heard this done in a whole bunch of house/techno tunes, and I've been itching to try it out. It works well and I can see why producers keep going back to it.

If you have been thinking of making music, you can hop on to the DustCar Discord server! Every 2 weeks there will be a prompt and producers of all skill levels can submit and have their track played back in a sync listen for everyone to hear. Really good place start practicing, and there's nothing you can really lose. People in the server are really nice and it's a good vibe.

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Many thanks to Makenshi for supporting it on EQD!


Also big thanks to Blackened Blue for their writeup on Horse Music Herald!


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