🐾 I attempted to make a song in the style of “psytrance.” The premise of the song wasn't for it to be psytrance at first. The more astute might hear that the entire piece is based on a pentatonic scale, which isn't as niche of a scale as you might think — many pop songs have melodies that only persist on notes of a pentatonic scale. I, however, decided to take it a step further, and each melodic line, each chord progression, and anything that creates pitch ONLY uses a note in the pentatonic scale it's in. No passing chords, no using the scale AS a passing chord; everything IS the pentatonic scale. This idea came from the initial melodic line that starts the piece. I was messing around with my keyboard, as keyboardists do, and I realized that these notes, B♭ - F - E♭ - C, sound amazing! Just these four notes are not only fun to play because of the pattern in which you play them, but they also sound good. In trying to see why they sound so good, I realized they made up 4 out of the 5 notes of the E♭ pentatonic scale. Any other time, I would have just dismissed this interesting discovery as quaint, but this time, I wanted to roll with it and see what I could create.
🐾 Thus, I created this. Making a song restricting myself to only the pentatonic scale made it sound very... nostalgic? Mystical? Ethereal? Well, whatever it makes you feel, it made me feel like making something psychedelic, and so I decided to try to make psytrance... again. If you follow my music, you may recall that I began experimenting with psytrance at the end of my Super Animal Royale Default Dance remix. This time I wanted to try to make a full song in psytrance. The song turned out weird. And, so, I decided to make it weirder. It doesn't have a regular song format, for one. I decided, at the end of the phrases, to give it a couple of measures in 5/4 to keep with the pentatonic/5 trend. I did a little research on ‘how to psytrance’ and I tried my best to make it as psychedelic as I could, auditorily and visually. The words came later. You know how in "Reed Rhythm" I said to not question the title? Well, don't question the lyrics here. I literally wanted to add lyrics that would sound, again, "psychedelic" or mystical or...I don't know, like they had some deeper meaning. I don't do drugs, but I bet if you do, these lyrics might make sense.
Lyrics: Where are we? Find ourselves. Where is here? Where we want it to be.
Where are we? Find ourselves. Where is here? Where we want it to be.
