Beatcoin by X5s
Album completed for the RPM 2024 challenge!
Beatcoin is an album mainly joking about American capitalist society at large but definitely keeps it light. Interpreting things like the gacha loop used in many mobile games and perhaps what slippers would sound like in a pitch meeting. You've got a track preaching to you about the glory of a dollar bill and a love song mixed in because sure - why not.
In 2022 I had done a concept album which required a lot of work (as I only have a month to do it all!) - this time I decided to just "play" and see what happened. I spent the first week composing followed by another week or so of flushing out ideas to engineering the track layouts, record vocals and drum midi. The last bit of time was spent mixing and mastering.
DAW: FL Studio 21
VST's used:
Synths:
ReFX - Vanguard 3
Roland - JD-800
Roland - System-100
Roland - JX-3P
Roland - Juptier-8
Roland - Promars
Roland - Juno-106
Waldorf - PPG Wave 3.V (in 2.3 mode)
Drums:
Aly James Labs - VSDSX
Mastering:
izotope - Ozone 10
Vocals:
izotope - Nectar 3
izotope - Vocal Synth 2
Physical midi input devices:
Yamaha - Motif ES6
Yamaha - DTX-Multi 12
I'm working towards becoming a more "complete" artist; several tracks have my own drum work for the first time. I do all my own mixing and mastering - all music is tone generated, no samples are used (other than my own vocals).
Tracklist
| 1. | Almighty Dollar | 3:57 |
| 2. | Demons | 3:45 |
| 3. | Gacha Mechanic | 3:55 |
| 4. | Slippers | 3:00 |
| 5. | Surcharge | 2:48 |
Credits
License
CC BY-NC 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Tags
Born in CA and raised on 80's synthpop I spent my youth listening to all kinds of music and playing way too many video games. I've been a hobby producer of music for over 15 years with a wide range of styles.