Mercury RED

Tag: bass heavy

  • FUNKY JESUS

    there isn’t much to explain here. it’s called funky jesus. that already does most of the work.

    this track came together during a period of exploration, around the time i first got an edirol midi controller. i was obsessed with how it felt to play the bass parts, hitting the notes hard and letting the groove carry everything else.

    really, the song exists because i wanted an excuse to use that bass sound and that controller. it’s playful, a little irreverent, and mostly just fun. sometimes that’s enough.

    credits:
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    mercury red, 2002
    production & guitar = erich huffaker

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  • AFRO BONFIRE

    this was the first mercury red track i ever made. i remember discovering the reson bass synth in reason and loving it so much that i built the entire song around it. i kept coming back to this track for years, revisiting it, reshaping it, letting it sit, then returning again.

    i probably started it in the early 2000s, before mercury red even had a name. back then i called it jungle master, which feels slightly ridiculous in retrospect, and also strangely appropriate for the moment it came from.

    listening back now, the flow still holds. it feels very late nineties, early 2000s. there’s that jungle adjacent drum pattern running through it, which makes me wonder whatever happened to that sound. it burned bright for a short window, then seemed to disappear. this track still carries that era in its bones.

    credits:
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    mercury red, 2002
    production = erich huffaker

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