»Notes: Arsenic on the Rocks

I've been wanting to try and experiment a little more and try to not so slavishly stick to conventions in terms of recording and coming up with songs. These conventions resulted in what I felt was an over-reliance on guitars and also a ballooning recording period that wasn't particularly fun. I tried to use guitars fairly sparingly on this song, but by its nature, Fruityloops encourages tinkering and I hadn't arrived at a very efficient way of coming up with and laying down tracks.
Having recently re-discovered Cumpari Inversion, I wanted to try and approach things in a similar way to how I did back then (when I didn't have any electric guitars, synthesiser or drum machine to make 'real music') and try and make use of more instruments and techniques. This song uses samples a lot--which I haven't used en masse for a while--samples from a variety of sources, namely films and my .wav folders. This song, being made in Fruityloops, is also entirely constructed from loops and repeated passages, something which I'm loathe to rely on as I think it makes for lazy composition, but still, something I've not done in a while, at least since STFU anyway. I haven't used Fruityloops for a long time because I think it is a crutch for hordes of insipid Newgrounds users.
I think I need to think more carefully about trying to be more daring in terms of 'approaching things in a less regimented way', as this song didn't turn out as innovative as I'd hoped it would.
I've recently found a useful application of torrents having chanced upon publicdomaintorrents.com and have been downloading lots of stuff from there. The samples are from the film 'The House on Haunted Hill', if you happen to care.
I was really pleased with how the drums came out using Fruityloops, I was pleased with how cool they sounded and had some practice in sourcing clips of music to use for drum samples. My original idea was to cover the second half of Genesis - Mama, this song came about from messing around with the drum patterns on Fruityloops having decided that the Genesis cover wouldn't work.
This song semi-unintentionally came out sounding very Rob Zombie-ish. I don't mind Rob Zombie, but I was dismayed at having unintentionally come so close to a sound like that. All in all though I'm pleased with how this came out, it sounds different from what I usually do without having to be a less-than-serious piece like STFU. I tried to come up with something naturally without deliberately trying to be a particular genre or like a particular song and it seems to have worked.

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