From the FAWM liner notes:

"Well, this one started out as a challenge from @sapient after a discussion we were having on the Forums about Bad Song Writing Habits fawm.org/forums/topic/8993/#c... Anyway, he challenged me to write a song in his usual BPM spread & that he would write a song in mine. I got 210 BPM & I gave @sapient 127 BPM (the default BPM in my DAW that I rarely even look at or change). So that is how this started.

Then it went in a few different directions. I decided early on not to use any VSTs - just native Buzz Machines. My first idea was getting bogged down in redundency so I had a change of heart. Maybe 210 was better inspiration then I had hoped.

I started playing with the numbers. 2, 1 & 0. 210. Starting at A; I counted up two steps to get a key: B. Then I used 2, 1 & 0 as the basis for the notes (C#; C & B - 2, 1 & 0 steps from the root (B)). Then I plugged these into Buzz using the Rectal Anarchy Machine again as well as Café Bass II. I did a sinple 4/4 drum beat using the ERS Drums and decided quickly that 210 would be the song structure.

2: Rectal & Bass
1: Either Rectal or Base
0: Just the beat.

Song structure became: 21012

But it lacked something to finish it off. So I turned to Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies. I drew the "Give The Game Away" card and it sparked something in me. At the same time, on a workspace platform I share with some other FAWMers, the AI bot (Slackbot) was being obtuse in its responses to @caterwauler's request that it inspire a song tittle for her. We were all having fun trying to get the bot to say something inspirational when it suddenly spit out: "All Your Base Belong To Us" Well, that clinched it.

I pulled out an old tool: Analogue X Sayit & started inputing phrases into it to digitize into "Slackbot's" voice. And that was that.

Me doing EDM. Who woodda guessed LOL

Thanks for all the inspiration everybody (you know who you are)!"

See You In The Shadows