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Crystal Tea Room

by PSFMer

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Taking it slower, relaxed, and more soulful this time. Featuring sounds from Onyx (the poet poni in the Tea Room), a rando guy poni on stage, and Zipp. The Crystal Tea Room in the movie gave me a kind of lounge-y, bar feel where you can go hang out with your friends and listen to bongo-beat poetry over a few drinks. I wanted to extend that idea a little more and make a song with percussion and rhythms from Africa, all while having a sort of friendly, warm, and slightly playful vibe that the Tea Room gives.

I've been very inspired by Amapiano recently, which is a fusion between deep house, jazz and Kwaito, which by itself is a house genre originating in South Africa featuring African percussion and sounds. I absolutely love playing with syncopated rhythms, and i also wanted to try writing longer melodies, so trying my hand at Amapiano was perfect to include both. It was a pretty hard time writing the piano melody because i didn't have a midi keyboard which made translating my ideas into notes in the DAW quite difficult. But luckily the Blues scale is really quite neat and easy to navigate and write with. I think the melody is a little haphazard but i kind of like it in the end. The piano is a free plugin by Spitfire Audio and it sounds pretty amazing i must say. As for the percussion, every Amapiano song i listen to has kicks that hit like exclusively in the sub region, everything above 100hz or so seems to be low passed entirely. So throughout the song there's the 4/4 sub pulse that i find very appealing and bouncy especially in conjunction with the rest of the percussion. And no Amapiano song is complete without the log drum, which to the best of my knowledge, is a preset in an FM synth in FL studio. It has an extremely distinct punchy sound and long sub tail which makes it super nice for adding loads of low end weight to the song. I absolutely love the log drum

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released September 13, 2023

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Amateur SFM pone animator and aspiring producer.

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