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This here is September's monthly Ko-Fi supported gift! If you like what I do and want access to more, please consider becoming a supporter on Ko-Fi!

This track took an incredible amount of work and posed all sorts of challenges for me along the way. One of the big ones is that I've never really made a song like this before. I've made plenty of tracks that smash a bunch of genres together or just go haywire the whole time, however this track is unique to me in that it sticks closely to an edm/breakbeat sort of thing. Both of which are genres I am not the most comfortable making. I was in the mood though, and put everything into it! Another challenge was that this ended up being the longest song I've made in the last 4-5 years or so. I tend to make short music, but I wanted to go big here. This song is incredibly fast-paced and packed to the brim with details and floops and doots and gorbs of all kinds. I like to pack my songs with fun little bits of ear candy, and that's usually the part that takes the longest for me. With this song being about twice as long as usual, that ended up taking quite a while. I had lots of fun with it though!

A theme with my last couple tracks has been simplifying things in terms of melody and composition. While this track is rich with all sorts of extra goobers, I wanted to nail my repetition in a way that felt fresh, yet memorable. I kept them fairly simple, at least compared to a lot of my other music, and made sure while each repetition carried a good amount of variation while still remaining, at it's core, the same. Repetition is really important to have in your music, and it's something I've always struggled with. I'm always so eager to change things up and bring my music down winding paths that often never return home. With this one, I wanted to keep home within' sight the whole way while maintaining that sense of musical adventure. All in all, I think it served the track well! In showing my friends, I've noticed them humming along to the melodies before the track is even over. Just what I was aiming for!

Since there's so much here, I could probably go on and on about everything, but I think I'll keep it at that. There's the gist of my goals for this song and the challenges I faced with it. I learned a lot from this project and I'm excited to share it! I hope you all enjoy it thoroughly!

This song (and everything else I make) is royalty-free! If you like the work I do and would like to help support me in making more free music, please consider supporting me on Ko-Fi. Making super fun music is my passion and my dream is to do it forever!!! You also get some cool perks, like 'Deluxe' versions of all of these fan-supported tracks (more details below)! I appreciate you all and hope you have a wonderful day.

All the best!

Zane

Shortcuts (Deluxe) comes with:

- The full song + alternate (slower) version

- Full (+slowed) loopable versions + 29 mini-loops

- Instrument stems

- 35 themed chimes

- 21 themed SFX

- 8 themed jingles

- .OGG files of everything for easy importing!

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