One Hour Compo - Round 769 (OHC769)
Outline
Tonight's theme is a picture theme. Please see the resources.
Resources
Rules
You will have 1 hour to complete your song and 10 minutes to finish it up. You will then have an additional 10 minutes to upload your song. At 6 PST/9 EST you may begin your mixing, please have your files uploaded by 7:20 PST/10:20 EST. Join us for discussion on Discord!
Entries (17)
detected
a mirror image
reflected
right in front of me
defective?
we take a gander
connect and
count our limbs and teeth
who's the fake
who is real
who can articulate
how they feel?
we play this game
to detect the bot
the simulation
sucks we ended up
with this problem
this situation
this conundrum gets much stranger
am i me or the
doppelganger
"I saw a shadow into the distance, and wondered what it might be. The presence so strangely cold, but calming, and i noticed this person had a weird smile on his face. As i grew closer, i paused and realised who it was. My long lost twin brother, who i thought was presumed dead. Yet here he is in the flesh. I miss you brother, we used to be best mates as a child, i'm so glad you're home."
This track is clearly Aphex Twin inspired, in a sort of play on the theme. We started with a textured intro, followed by some frantic Drill and Bass followed by some weird pad sounds. Soon it turns into a creepy atmospheric section, before it goes back into the drum manipulation, this time on a drum machine. By the 3 minute mark, we break down into a piano and a breakbeat, before slowly introducing some haunting vocals, some strings and more bells. The vocals were a pain to pitch shift, but it ended up really satisfying at the end. We finally end on solo piano in a sort of breakdown, before a surprise twist finishes us off. I really love this, it's quite creative, even with all it's inspirations. Hope you enjoy!
It's hard to describe this feeling. What's the opposite of loneliness? what's the opposite of knowing that there's no one out there that could possibly understand what you're going through and how you feel? It's like staring down a mirror and speaking to myself.
On this episode of what do you do when you have no clue, I ran with the idea of twins where one of them is a robot and one of them is a man, and I guess they find out one is a man and one is a robot, I'm not sure who made the discovery, but that's what this song is about.
Cover of the Beatles feat. my identical twin
Two sides of the same coin, a heart with split-tone.
A battle rages on the inside, the push and pull of our fate,
A constant contradiction, a never-ending state.
In this eternal struggle, I'll find my destined way,
Embracing contradictions, with every breath I sway.
Who’s that in the mirror?
Is it friend or foe?
It it my own terror
aware of my heart
factory of evils
right from the start
Somedays I don’t know myself
The sorrow smothers me
The ghost convicts
And kills a part of me
you stared at myself
as i looked in your eyes
will the future become
the past we'll despise
lets work together
to tear this apart
united we fall
united we fall
united we fall
my wasteland supreme
your american dream
what a perfect disguise
when we don't have to hide
and i'll take up your hand
if you'll run with my plan
united we fall
united we fall
united we fall
Drowning in yourself
Look back on mistakes
What if I was someone else
Not quite in my space
But see a twin break out
When you face yourself
The truth will rise
Facing to the mirror’s edge
What did I do wrong?
Why’s there one successful me
Am I drowning in doubt
Can break out of this chain
Binding me to me
The other self, shows me the truth
I can.
we love the unsupported falsetto at the end. ALSO THIS IS THE LAST BLOOPER I SWEAR I ONLY KEPT IT BECAUSE IT WAS A SPIDER CRAWLING NEXT TO ME. and ya know bugs so.
Rather than make a song about twins, I figured I'd make a song to impersonate my twin. Except it is much more poorly mixed and composed, perhaps still classified as Eurobeat. But I tried.
The goal of this track was to make a harsh sounding track with a softer underside about a scientist being trapped in the void during a failed cloning process and going insane as a result. this is also my first time doing vocals so uh go easy on me.
I feel a burning sensation
Across the entire wound
I lost the senses
All that's left is pain
My attempted duplication
I believed it Failed me
Can sombody help Me
Where am I
I don't like this place
It hurts inside
Whatever I've done
I've been left behind
I have a fear that ten years have gone by
I've been nothing but a mind
I think maybe I just think. I have gone crazy 10 times behind
I have a fear that whatever I've gone crazy 10 times nothing but a mind
Can sombody help Me
Where am I
I don't like this place
It hurts inside
(weird feedback solo)
You shouldn't exist, but somehow we found each other...