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Chapter 22 I'll make you lose your mind, you son of a bitch.

The days passed quickly.

In the past few days, Xia Shen has been focusing on his new album and has already entered the production stage.

To be honest, things that don't require much technical skill are indeed quick to make.

After all, it's not complicated, and it's all electronic music, not even proper electronic music. Proper electronic music has a high technical threshold.

The things he makes have absolutely no entry barrier and are completely devoid of any value.

I have now finished the last of the four "tu hai" songs, which is "Midnight DJ Version After Morning".

Now, only the final step remains: the recording of the vocals. Once that's done, everything will be complete.

Of the five singles released this time, only two are sung by male vocalists: "Fallen DJ Version" and "Don't Let Love Wither".

Other projects, including the serious production "Still," all required Zhou Yumeng's cooperation.

Recording songs doesn't take Xia Shen long either; he basically only spent half a day to finish mixing the tracks.

It went that smoothly, since the recording process was basically done in one take, and there's rarely any talk of backup or harmonies for this kind of song.

Even if you have one, you can just copy it from the dry audio track, add some effects, and make do. What more could you ask for?

Even if you make this kind of song complicated, you don't have to worry about people not listening to it.

So now, the main event begins.
That is, finally it's time for the song "Still".
This song, placed on this EP album, is like a golden pheasant mixed in with a bunch of black chickens.

It highlights that he is different from others, an outlier, and doesn't seem to fit the overall tone of the album at all.

But as I said before, this is yet another struggle by Xia Shen against the current situation.

His use of electronic music, rather than other genres such as pop or rock, was his last act of defiance.

At the same time, he also had his own little selfish motives and ideas, which was to let the listeners who were able to access this album see what real electronic music should be like.

Instead of what those tacky, lowbrow people show.

At the same time, there was also a slight urge to try again.

What if something happens?
What if this serious song works?
"Foolish listeners, let me show you what real electronic music looks like!"

Xia Shen murmured softly, opened the production software, and connected the beat pad, the center console, and his disc player.

Coincidentally, among the areas he chose to study, aside from hard instruments such as the piano and guitar, electronic music was the one he chose.

The reason is simple: to save money.

Although good electronic music equipment is expensive, the requirements are actually not high compared to other musical instruments. A turntable costing just over ten thousand yuan can last a long time.

Then the software for creating songs only costs a little over a thousand yuan.

The cost of various hardware components will not be too high if controlled.

It allows a truly poor person to play music, which is in line with his financial and family situation.

It is being used now.

He quickly created a new project file and started playing the first audio track.

This song, "Still," is quite different from the previous songs. This one song alone has a project file that is larger and more complex than the other four combined.

First, for the first track, you definitely need to set the tone, which is the bass drum.

First, set the BPM to 86 on the host software and select the 4/4 beat mode.

Then start choosing the bass drum tone.

Xia Shen browsed through the sound material library, then put on his headphones and pondered for a moment.

Although this song is in the style of Future bass, its drums are quite different from typical Future bass. Instead, they resemble a different style, more like Dubstep drums.

The drum kit is based on the regular rhythm of Kick-Snare, while Hi-Hat and Percussion use triplets to create rhythmic misalignment tension.

It must be said that this setting is quite novel and the stitching is very well done. Surprisingly, it suits the song perfectly and adds a deeper emotional touch.

To put it more easily, imagine the hissing sound of a gas stove not igniting, accompanied by a very muffled 'thump-da, thump-da thump-da thump-da' rhythm, and then variations on that. Then, in the Build Up section, which is the emotional build-up before the climax of electronic music, the drumbeats accelerate and the rhythm speeds up.

When entering the Build Up mode, the drum effects muffle is removed, followed by a sudden stop attack, combined with the sound of the electric bass.

It's worth mentioning that there's a clever little detail in this song that Xia Shen thinks is a brilliant touch.

The addition of the clock-like sound added a lot to the rhythm of the song and made it more in line with the overall mood of the song.

Time passed little by little during the production process.

When it came to producing the last song, Xia Shen clearly spent a much longer time compared to the previous ones.

If he was able to consistently release one song a day for the previous few days...

So for the remaining song, he stayed in the studio for several days without coming out.

He started living at the company, and once he moved into the studio, no one could get through to him except for the food delivery guy.

It can be said that you can eat and sleep inside.

By the time the mission was accomplished, Xia Shen looked much more disheveled and dejected.

But it's good that it took exactly one week to get everything done.

Looking at his unshaven, disheveled face in the mirror, Xia Shen clutched his waist, grimaced, and leaned back, letting out a hissing sound.

However, just as he was about to go back and have a good rest for a day, his phone rang.

Xia Shencai picked up his phone and glanced at the caller ID before a slight twitch appeared on his lips.

Goodness, he got so engrossed in making the song that he forgot he had made plans with Zhou Yumeng. And today, Zhou Yumeng had finished her work in Zhejiang Province and returned to Shanghai.

He answered the phone: "Hello?"

"Hey! I've arrived!" Zhou Yumeng's voice came through the phone: "You haven't forgotten our appointment today, have you? If you stand me up again, you might as well not sleep too soundly tonight."

"I haven't forgotten," Xia Shen said. "Wait for me at the usual place!"

"Okay, come over here right away!"

"Good good."

After saying that, Xia Shen hung up the phone and then looked at herself in the mirror.

My hair has grown quite long, and I haven't shaved yet, since there are no razors in the studio.

Although I change my clothes and shower every day, the feeling of exhaustion from working continuously is something that no amount of showering can wash away.

In fact, this image can't be called good; it's downright terrible.

But
It's not like I'm meeting a girlfriend, it's just meeting up with my childhood best friend. Why am I so concerned about these details?

He never asked for anything.

That's fine. I guess Zhou Yumeng is already used to their way of getting along.

So, with that air of being overjoyed with his reward, he left the company in his slippers, casually hailed a taxi, and went to his appointment.

On the other side, Zhou Yumeng closed the mirror she was using for touching up her makeup, then looked down at her feet in white stockings and leather shoes, a look of satisfaction flashing in her eyes.

Just kidding, she had been stalking someone's bookmarks for a long time specifically for today.

One idiot also verified his public account but forgot to hide his favorites and likes list.

"You like looking at feet, huh? You like stockings, huh? I'll make you obsessed, you son of a bitch."

She said this through gritted teeth: "I've posted so many things on my WeChat Moments and you've only liked a few of them. You seem to enjoy watching other people's posts."

This is a good opportunity to show someone what real scheming is, what real scheming is.

He ran, she chased!

He has no wings to fly!
(End of this chapter)