Heretic
Heretic
Serialising the album Pretentious Incongruity by Key 13 (@keefmarshall)
Pretentious Incongruity: 2020-2024 is a retrospective compilation looking back at some key milestones in the first five years of Key 13 as a recording identity.
Track 17
I couldn’t get away without including some BonkWave on here. From the very first compilation, Not What I Call Bonk Wave Volume 001, this was created in quite a short period of time. The theme harks back to the origins of Bonk Wave – overzealous Genre Police, gatekeeping every microstyle of music to the nth degree. Our luckless Heretic is judged before his peers, and found wanting.
I’ve never been able to mix it properly – and nearly gave up this time round. No matter how much I turn down the drums and bass, they’re always too loud. This mix has every instrument too loud – how can that even happen?!! But it has to be here.
At the time this was my most complex project in Logic Pro – it has nearly 100 channel strips with all the different FX and silly voices. Mixing it this time though I was able to strip it back to the 10 or so instrument tracks before worrying about everything else, and turned down the FX a bit to make the music clearer. I think, at least, the Polymoog Vox Humana patch is not quite so ear-splitting as it was on the original.
Influences: Some random psychedelic bands from the 1960s, maybe even The Beatles, and Gary Numan in his 80s period, who knows what else!
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
