At least this level has decent music...
Don't die.
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Weekend Astronauts - Water Level <<<<
For this one, it began with the main synth you hear in the intro, like most of our music happens to come about. A little on that. When we're producing stuff that centers itself on a particular type of feel or genre, the easiest way to build on an idea is to experiment with what would be the main idea, and for more ambient/mellow types of music, that tends to be the main synth that defines the melody.
In this case, I felt that the synth patch I used had an underwatery feel to it, so I kinda went from there. Of course, and it's probably obvious, the primary inspiration here is Tipper, but once that stage was set, additions were basically second nature.
For the beat, the primary sloppy sample is what I built the rhythm off of. That is the free sample for this song, because I did not create it from scratch. But I did edit the hell out of it. In the link below, you will have yourself the sample, at 120BPM.
The beat would have been ok by itself, but my partner added some life to it, and you'll hear this with the slight FX that put a bit of movement into the rhythm of the song.
As far as the bass, well, I'm not super familiar with NI Massive, but I gave it a shot and did a standard wobble, selecting the LFO rate that seemed to work with the rhythm of the song while not being too adherent.
For the processing of the bass, I did as I usually do and create a copy of it, then take the lows out of the copy and slap iZotope Trash on top of it and get some good distortion and layer that in on the top end of the bass.
The bends are within Massive. It's a matter of setting your voicing to monophon and then setting your osc to rate instead of equal, then adjusting the time of the pitch bends between notes.
The rest of the elements in the song are supporting characters. In the breakdown, you'll notice the main synth kinda morph into another one, then back to the main halfway through the drop. This is done with volume automation and also automating the mix knob of a filter on both tracks.
And for everything else, there's Mastercard.
Here's the free beat.
LagBeat