Seventh Friend
Seventh Friend
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 3
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track NotesA bit of an outlier – nearly didn’t make it on. But, like many other tracks here, it marks a significant milestone. This was the first track I submitted to the Reddit sub /r/songaweek, with the weekly theme ‘Seventh’. This sub proved to be the catalyst for a really long run of creativity. Just as importantly was the fact I wrote and finished it from scratch in just two days over a weekend – after a long dry period with no energy or ability to finish anything. It followed soon after Lateral Flow, and shares the phased side-guitar patches at the end of that track. The main arpeggiated theme came about when I was playing with one of the Logic Pro presets, but managed to get it triggering slightly off the beat.
This new mix slows it down a bit, and reduces the drums and piano somewhat in volume as they were way too loud on the original.
The title comes from Covid-19 terminology. At one point during the UK lockdown, we were restricted to no more than six people meeting together, the so called “Rule of Six”. I always wondered how many people found out they were the seventh friend at that point…
Influences: I have no idea… some random 90s chillout compilations? Robert Miles or Chicane? Who knows.
