Evilgrapez - Prism Curse
Channel: Evilgrapez
Date: 2021-03-10

STREAM/DOWNLOAD: https://fanlink.tv/evilgrapez-prismcurse
Artwork by: https://twitter.com/diamond_alfax

As of today, I've been putting music online for six years.

"Rainbow Curse" is one of my oldest tracks (it's nearly five years old), and I've been wanting to remake it for a while. I already made a VIP a long time ago, but there weren't any rules saying I couldn't do that again! It also seemed especially fitting in celebration of my musical anniversary to recreate one of the first songs I wrote that actually had an original melody.

Because of the deadline I kind of speedran this and put it all together more quickly than I usually make a track, meaning a month or so of work.

That doesn't seem very fast, but considering everything else going on in my life at the moment and the technical problems I have to deal with, it's fast for me for a track like this. There were days when I could make more creative music way faster (for instance my VIP of Azure, which was made in a few days), but that's hard for me to do right now for a lot of reasons.

Of course, doing it quickly came with some unfortunate sacrifices. Both drum loops in both drops are full Cymatics drum loops without a lot added to them. I almost always use sample packs for drums anyway but I usually like to put together my own arrangement, combinations of samples, and post-process them a lot. The loop was just supposed to be a placeholder, but as time got tighter they had to serve as the final drums.

I had to rely on a few more presets than I would have liked and the arrangement isn't that creative. It's a lot more similar to the original song than I intended. But I'm happy with it anyway, and I think the quality's still a huge improvement over the original. I don't think it would have won the Art-Inspired Music contest still, but it's not for a contest this time so that doesn't really matter.