🐾 Listen. What can I say? I really enjoy songs that are heavy and intense but then end with a soft piano rendition of the main theme. I think I have a few songs that do that and I am 100% NOT sorry about that because I really like that juxtaposition!
Anyway, this song is named "Avenue" because, after a few years in development, the aggressive brostep "growl" bass that you hear during the drop is the culmination of years of experimentation on how to craft, well, such a sound from scratch! This song has been in development for so long that I started working on it before I was ever able to even consider purchasing Xfer's Serum (which I do legitimately own now), so that growl bass is actually made using FL Studio's Sytrus plugin. I believe I started with the "Orbital Bass" preset and just touched a bunch of things to get it to that final sound. Such a feat was so astonishing for me that I decided to record the voice line of me genuinely saying "I never thought I could make something like this," because, well... I still can't believe how good it sounds.
🐾 Oh, right, that doesn't really why it's named "Avenue". So, early on in the song's development is actually when the name came about. I started experimenting with the dubsteppy growl sound and it sounded bad, but it was a start. It was the start to a whole new style of music that, at the time, like I said, I never thought I could create. And, so, it opened up a whole new "avenue" of possibilities for me. The picture I used for this is actually one I took while visiting Death Valley in California. I, uh... was driving, so I couldn't really purposefully get a straight shot, but I really wanted to get a picture of the long, straight road. There was another one on the way to Death Valley that I should have taken a picture of instead because I am almost positive, if you've ever seen a movie where the characters are driving down a long, straight road in the middle of the desert, I am pretty certain that was the road they use.
