Ghost [ SP404 + Syntakt - Slushwave / Techno / Black Metal ]

Описание: Made end of February, beginning of March 2025.

Album version includes an improved mix, you can find that here:
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Track notes:
0:00-2:28 Slushwave / Ambient hip hop
Made using the JD-08 recorded into the Sp404 Mk2, chopped and reassembled with internal 404 effects.

2:29-6:00 Hardcore Techno / Industrial
Almost entirely the Elektron Syntakt with some 2600 noises recorded into the sp404, and solos and additional sounds from the JD08
edit: for the album mix I'm gonna more aggressively de-ess the vocals. missed that one in the original mix.

6:00-8:40 Raw lofi black metal / abm/dsbm
Made on the Roland MC-101 recorded into the Sp404 with heavy Cassette and Lo-Fi bit reduction effects applied.

8:41 loose jazzy boom-bap and synthwave
Made and sequenced on the Sp404 using Kawaii and JV1080 samples sequenced using a midi controller straight into pattern mode with added breakbeats and miscellaneous samples. Solos done on the Korg iMonoPoly soft synth.

A song about finding euphoria in death, finally free from life's horrors and the weight of love. However, the afterlife is not the peaceful escape it seemed. As a wandering spirit, you are hunted by the Saints—a council of judges who sift through your memories, seeking to punish you for past sins. They adhere to no moral limitations, and there is no end to their cruelty. What was once an ethereal existence soon turns into a desperate struggle for survival in a desolate, colorless realm. Here, spectral cannibals devour each other’s memories to stave off oblivion, reducing themselves to mindless husks—erasing their pasts to escape the Saints' judgment.

Lyrics:

Uncertain and unreal
Like the wind has no voice
Like I don't have a choice
It lost its appeal
No hunger No sleep
Nothing left to feel

didn't think I could feel
so good

I drown in white
No day and no night
Not a soul in sight

The colorless world calls to me
Its climbs the towers
And I'm swallowed whole

Swallowed whole

We peel, we press, we crack,
A whisper, a glance, a stain
Reading through the pages
The tome of living crimes

The teeth that breaks the skin
Releasing the fluid
The nectar of memories
That every tongue craves

It tastes so sweet
The nectar of memories

(The nectar of memories, the nectar...)

The teeth are counted,
Abide by the rules
The pain from the spines
As they crawl
Their expressions delight
Expressions delight

You hide in mystic fog
From the council of saints
the council of saints

At the table
The saints convene
the council of nightmares
The dance of blades you surely deserve

The agony a kiss
Upon your colorless flesh
Upon your bloody chest

You remember it all
I know you do
It was written in our dreams

We know the lies they tell us
Time and time again
That we will get to feed
We point with our rotting hands
To track the sun

Keep time in this horrid place
Before the Saints arrive
Or we finally get to feed

Their fingers trace the path
I've been running for so long
I forget what it means to be afraid
And all the sadness is gone

You drink my memories
You open me up
You follow through
And drain me of color

Drain me color

All that's left is Euphoria
a constant high
that's numb and frightening
I can take no more
euphoria
you forced me into the light
euphoria

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