Lotus

elegy for forgotten demos

2022~

archive link: here


elegy is a compilation of songs I made over 2022.


tracklist


1 - intro

Made by sampling. This is probably the best beat I ever made but I had no idea where to go from this intro. So it kind of just sat on my hard drive.


Points to anyone who can figure out what the main melody sample in this track is. Its a sample I would never be able to clear.

2 - untitled 26

3 - untitled 25

4 - reststop

5 - friends list (nightcore remix)

In 2022 I was really into hyperpop music. I really wanted to make similar music. This song is heavily inspired by "second hand embarrassment" by underscores.


I spent a long time on this song. In the archive I also included a different version of the song I made in early 2023.


Its called nightcore remix because for this version I performed a specific process to make the song sound like a "nightcore" song from early youtube.

In the original project, I slowed the bpm, and pitched everything down. I then rendered out the slowed version and sped it up in audacity by about 33%. This leads to the song being slightly off key and all the drums are pitched up.

6 - daytripper

This song is named after a mario kart wii vehicle. idk.


I really liked the idea of having a simple song that randomly has a section in the middle that is more intense than the rest. Only to go back to the original simple section.


I used to use crappy earbuds and I'm pretty sure this song sounded better on those.

7 - gender envy

I made this song after I got my first guitar. I had no idea what I was doing so its basically just me playing 3 single notes without any tuning. Even with such a simple melody I still messed up constantly and had to use multiple takes.


I think the mistakes are the best part.


The sampling at the end is terrible.

8 - naut

9 - it's so quiet out here

10 - falling asleep in the backseat of my parents car

11 - untitled 1


b-sides


these are songs that I added to this collection when archiving my work. Some were also made in 2023 and 2024.

b1 - look everyone, it's snowing outside

This was made around the same time as the other elegy tracks. It was made from an attempt to make a song by sampling.

At the time I recently got an old electric keyboard my parents bought on facebook marketplace. I was messing around with some of the audio presets and found one called "air". Which I recorded with my phone and sampled for this track. I later realised that this is actually an incredibly famous classical track


I had a rough story in mind when I made this about a catastrophic blizzard that effected a small town.

I sampled lots of random youtube videos about actual blizzards including some news reports and interviews. In retrospect it seems very disrespectful which is why I never released this.

b2 - ambience demo 1

b3 - meow synth goes hard

The bass sound that plays throughout the song was made by sampling a meow sound effect

I really like this song. It was one of the last songs I made before pretty much giving up on music. This was mostly made by mashing together various samples and loops