MY NEW AND FINAL SINGLE OFF MY UPCOMING ALBUM. - Mastered by Mixea.commore

THE LABYRINTH - Hard techno and psytrance music! After Lampy revealed the Labyrinth and the mysterious Delcoin addresses to the Cyber Threat Resistance League (CTRL), the hacktivists must hack their way through the heart of Big Crypto's closed-source blockchain patrolled by AI programs to save Delgado! -- 🔊 Stream this on other platforms like YouTube and Spotify: hyperfollow.com/moule/the-labyrinth -- 👕 The Labyrinth Merch: redbubble.com/shop/ap/157838706 -- 🎥 The Labyrinth Cover Art Timelapse: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GuwiEx_wQJ0 -- 📖 Read about CTRL's mission in The Labyrinth here: https://mastodon.moule.world/@Melody/112302159334975032 -- This track was originally planned to be built on a track I made years ago, but instead I went with working from a copy of Lampy's project file, since this track takes place directly after CTRL discovers Lampy who unveils The Labyrinth to them: a network of addresses on Big Crypto's closed-source, heavily-controlled blockchain. -- My aim was for this track to be strictly hard techno only with atmospheric elements, but a subdued acid arp I added gave this track a cool psytrance feel I just couldn't let go of. It adds to this track's urgent, mystic sort of feel to it as CTRL uncover just how vast the Labyrinth is. -- Some rapid-fire acid squelching sounds were intended as well, but the subdued acid arp sounded really cool and adding more to that would make this track more busier than it is. Also, there's two beats: Hard Bass House (the clear one) and a distorted bass drum that can be heard shortly after each beat – they're not the same drum. I'm especially proud of my mastering in this one! -- This track was heavily inspired by D-Noiser and Michael Da Brain, musicians who made the acid hard techno tracks for the final races of Midnight Club II. The psytrance elements were inspired a lot by the tracks from @sat2199's 2015 Goa Trance Mix that I often play when working out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-cjSMcZp5E -- Let me know what you think on the Fediverse at https://MASTODON.MOULE.WORLD/@MOULE (or copy and paste @[email protected] into your own instance's search bar), or visit https://MOULE.WORLD for all MOULE links!more

Built This Way is a dark fantasy introspective, dealing with feelings of uncontrollable malice that force actions without remorse and conceptually was written from the point of view of a serial killer. I know, right? We started this one as a joke and from there it blossomed into a rhythmically bouncy, swinging walk through the mind of a dangerous, narcissistic and callous psychopath. It's fun! Phil came up with the structure, playing minor chords in a 6/8 swing, switching to major chords to lift us up, and then dropping us back down to the verse. It was a cool sort of walking feel with a fun scariness to it that, before it even had words, we knew was dark. So we made it dark. Lyrically I tried to keep this one pretty much on the nose and leaned in to a murderer's perspective as much as possible with the bridge having him accomplish his goal and move on to strike another day, all peppered with influences from my own life. That's how we wrote, most of the time, with me writing the first lyrics because it was my phone that I was writing everything on, so it was with me, and I always had the newest version that I just edited. I'm pointing this out because this caused me to be the one to really know the lyrics, and be able to sing, for the longest time in our writing. For most of our writing he'd build the house and I'd decorate. We put a light, mellow bridge near the end to give a sense of peace, tonally, while lyrically being completely nonchalant about its intense evil. Production went quickly on this track in studio with everything coming together perfectly and this was the first song I considered finished, with it's disturbing yet strangely inviting tone, roiling around a sinister edge. Vocally I originally wanted to have layers of other voices singing at the same time, alluding to the voices in the head of the singer, but I completely forgot about it until just this moment. Huh. Too late now! This is the only song on the album in 6/8 time, which gives it a unique flavour transition to the more rock leaning part of the album. It's dark, it's kinda scary and it's fun.more