Ending up as one the catchiest and most technical tracks on the album, golden_battletrain started out as a very-late-night “can’t sleep” project.
The steam-engine-inspired noise channel and bass line, combined with the tempo changes, made for a very cool dynamic here. Though it is hard to say if it would work as well if attempting to replicate any of these in another context.
There is a moment (at 1:12) where the bass line drops out to briefly subvert the groove that had been built up until that point. This ended up working well, and is a technique worth trying again elsewhere!
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_software: furnace-tracker [gameboy]
_download: 06-golden_battletrain.wav
_source: 06-golden_battletrain-SOURCE.zip
_license: public-domain / cc0