Dailies 0x0A.05: Coffee biscuit acid (3:56)

I didn't get much sleep last night, so this acid-infused meeting of Cyberpsychose and Polygon Window is liable to a bit of rambling. It was inspired by two things: wanting to run some drums through the MS20's virtual filter to see how Aphex it sounded, and wanting to use the sample of a 2-year old screaming YOU PAY NOW, BITCH! (Thanks to Will Ferrell and co for that one.)

Originally it was going to be much more aggressive and acid-soaked but i couldn't come up with anything really super-aggro to follow up the sample. I decided to go for something a little bit more soaring instead and ended up referencing one of my favourite acid tracks of all time, Cyberlandscape by Cyberpsychose. The Kraftwerklich laser zaps work really well in the second half to give the rhythm section just that extra bit of tickle and thrust too. (For those who don't know how to do the old KW zap yet, the base oscillator is white noise and the zap comes from a low-pass filter with high resonance being closed very quickly.)

Explaining the title: a coffee biscuit is my friend Sophia's word for the soggy disc of used coffee granules you get left over from making espresso. One day a mutual friend of ours took the description "biscuit" literally and ate one. Silly girl.