This is the first AWESOME BIG project from Odessa and Faye. Using a multitude of niche and not so niche samples, video game voice lines and BREAKS, the two have created a (hopefully) enjoyable experience.
The following text is a track-by-track breakdown of the entire EP.
All of my tracks on b2b are at least 2 years in the making. I kind of used the project as a last selective outlet before closing the vault doors on a bunch of old material--and to force myself to finally finish something!
I made the sample flip at the heart of this first song after a friend and me came back from a long treck along the foot of an unnamed mountain, and came down from an unnamed mushroom. It was January 2023. I recorded myself earlier in December playing around with my vinyl copy of We Will Always Love You, so that's what you hear at the beginning of the song. I actually don't remember where I found the football commentator audio, but I think it was on YouTube clicking through random videos with the speaker logo as thumbnail.
I think in the beginning I wanted the song to slowly transform into a Sewerslvt-like track but I thought better. Now its a key change,, yay !
I wuuuuvvv uuuu wobot!! I made this Song after a long creative block and it helped me get out of it. I made it in 2 days and never touched it again.
This started out as a straight forward hip-hop beat. For the longest time I only had the the drum loop, breathing sound and Baby Keem sample. I really wanted this song to tell a story, a police chase into the depths of a rainsoaked city. I had plans to use sound design and foley to make it all gritty. In the end a lot of that never manifested, but I do think the song eventually still became pretty textural (I wish I could run my fingers over that last part, actually). In its own way it still carries some of its original identity with it.
FUN FACT: The three kicks at the transitional period are an incredibly clumsy Alexander Panos homage.
Yeah so basically i just did a thing. Sigma from Overwatch has really funny voice lines. yuhuuup. At first I wanted the "what is that melody" to be my funny producer tag. Then I thought about blizzard and copyright and decided against it. PLEASE DONT REPORT IT IT WILL NEVER BE CLEARED.
This is by far the oldest song on the EP. At the time (late summer 2022) I was working my first full-time job and I was incredibly bored while also being overworked. The song--then titled "mixed assumptions" and later "9to5"--was supposed to sound like a tram or train chugging along tracks, shifting gears, leaning into curves. The end, which was added a year later, would be its final crash with all the wagons collapsing into each other. It was the first time that I managed to distill such an abstract idea into music and for the better half of a year I didn't drive to work without it playing in my ears.
The sample is the beginning of "Assume Form" by James Blake, but there's also bits and pieces of the next song on that album welded in there--You've been listening to Travis Scott singing this whole time😈😈
I made this track the day before the release. I used my awesomly awesome new pedal for some of the synths (chase bliss mood mk2). I think its a fun way to close the EP. I am NOT as creative as Emilia when it comes to songs, so I dont have much to write. (If nardwuar reads this please mention pee world and poop city in the interview)
Thanks for listening!!!!
