This song is meant to mess with your head.

I didn’t just “have fun” I had extreme fun.

“Gramophone Of Lament” is a homage to the “ Lament Configuration”

Before you read further, please visit my BandCamp and check out the cover. I can’t sell this song, but I can give it away for free. I’ve removed the “donation” option on the track, and BandCamp will let you specify CC licenses!!!!

But the reason I’m sending you there is to check out the art. The gramophone represents a puzzle in and of itself, covered with strange runes, the souls of those trapped within it occasionally appearing in the flower horn. It is AI generated (the only thing AI gen here is the cover art) but it took about two hours to do, mainly the reflections in the flower horn.

So… I skipped out on the last mixter, but I believe it was the one before that I participated in, and it was vo1k1 that I had for that one as well, so it was hilarious getting them a second time.

The last time I went out of my way to make a Creative Commons Attribution song (several actually) this time I decided to go the opposite way. Last time I got stems… this time NO STEMS. I wanted a DJ Jazzy Jeff style DJ mix, which I figured I could work if I put the time in.

I mixed the drums with no less than two different song samples of finished tracks with no stem separation.

So the scale is A, between A minor and A major depending on the track. I first set out with the idea that I would play two different drum loops simultaneously, and then I went even more extreme with that idea. I took one drum beat from Theedeepr and three from Exorcist, and I used Stutter Master 2 Beat Repeater to reinvent each beat six times.

I put one drum pattern opposite of the other in patterns, and then when I scratch a drum beat? I only scratch one drum beat while the other one still plays.

I have a vocal skit where go left right left right on you constantly, made even funnier by what the vocals say.

The guy singing scat rapidly shifts left and right.

There’s a point where I’m adlibbing midi… but yup you guessed it… two completely different synth lines, one in each ear.

Some of that synth line was an actual piano, at other points it was Twinkle.

The instrument I make the most use out of is Tactile, and I use that to blend two different samples into a playable sample.

In this upload, I’ve indluded non-commercial samples. “Tactile” contains all of those. Check it out, it’s a very strange and useful approach to sound.