Silver from Somewhere Nowhere by HUNDREDTH

I spent a solid 7 hours at Panda one day making the main synth loop for this song. I was messing around on my Moog Sub 37, creating these random arpeggio loops that never repeat. I was sending them into Ableton, adding delay and reverb, and recording them for hours until it finally moved the exact way I wanted it and perfectly matched the tempo. It was tedious but it was honestly such a good break for me at the time. The days prior, I had been constantly getting bogged down and trying to grab new instruments off the wall to bail myself out of a lackluster idea. I was thinking maybe if I find a new part, the song could actually be something. After a night of frustration I decided I was going to go into a synth wormhole the next day and (maybe) build a new song around that. After hours of toying around I finally got a solid 10 minute loop that matched perfectly to tempo and chopped it up from there to make specific parts for a song. I added the pumping kick and thought it would be cool if there wasn’t a snare in the entire song. You don’t really notice it until it’s pointed out. The song reminds me of The Postal Service or Dntel, especially in the outro with the vocal chops. The other day my brother pointed out to me that it reminds him of Donna Lewis’ “I Love You Always Forever”, which I think is badass because literally everyone I know loves that song.

Hundredth is Chadwick Johnson, Alex Blackwell & Andrew Minervini.

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