11. D# Minor (72 BPM)

Episode Description:

It’s a cloudy day at the studio and Oliver’s ready to get mellow on Episode 11 of ’10 Minutes to Make a Loop.’ The Balls of Fate are apparently aligned with the weather, too, and queue up 72 beats per minute for this loop. Oliver starts the jam off with what he claims is “the worst percussioning he’s ever percussioned” before quickly redeeming himself at the keyboard in D# Minor. After shouting out his glitches, he lays down a warm synth pad with percussive, melodic glitch effect and quickly adds some twinkling piano notes into it for a bit of a Moby inspired sound. It’s then over to the drums and bass to fill out the rhythm section and low end. A traditional 4 string electric bass sound starts off the bass layers and a simple warm bass synth fills it out. It’s just a simple kick and snare pattern on the drums today with subtle hi-hats for the beat, enhanced with a bit of reverb and delay to make it sound bigger and more epic. The loop comes together right at 10 minutes and allows Oliver finish it out by drifting away with some gentle guitar layers. Subtle, simple notes ringing out from chords coloured with tape delay, reverb and distortion ring out until the end; resulting in a warm, cosy loop that perfectly suits the cloudy day. Calming, relaxing, meditative music. Before everything ends, Oliver gets an answer to the question that was burning in his mind throughout… “was the percussion really that bad?”