It came together extremely quickly while I was visiting Switzerland last month - produced with any time I had squeezed in between obligations at the Zurich Film Festival. Touch Down is a mid-tempo electronic track with a touch of reggae influence. I have to say - this is probably the most banging beat I've made all year. I think the line 'I criticize the dream, but I bought it too' best sums it up - while I'm addressing the issues that have arisen with globalization, greed, and cookie cutter lifestyles, I also have to acknowledge my own hypocrisy and the ways in which I have benefitted from some of those systems.

It's a sparser trap/EDM affair which is something I tend to find harder to accomplish - usually I'm good at fitting dense combinations of musical layers together and generating richness and interest that way, but here I was happy to be able to come up with a few much simpler but well sculpted synthesizer lines.īig Box is what I'm calling my anti-suburbia anthem. I often don't look at one track being the 'original' and any others as 'remixes', but each one as a different perspective, like the same light refracting through a prism to create a huge variety of colors.īetelgeuse uses the rap verses from 'Go Wild' over a completely different beat. The reason why I sometimes like to release different versions of the same song is because I find that there can be multiple expressions of the same lyrical or melodic ideas, where a shift in context can lead to a radical change in one's experience of the message or feeling.

It features two reworks of tracks from last year's Cosmos, and two brand new ones.

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