Built around a standard 4/4 kickdrum, the rest of the instruments are looped in various other polyrythmic patterns, which creates a varying soundscape in the back of the track, as different patterns interplay with each other. The two first loops on the whole track, for example, go around in 4/4 and 3/4 respectively, and the wizzy effect things that come in later on are in 7/8, which displaces them against the rest of the rythms in a cool (?) way.
All the main melodies are in 4/4 though, and I think that gives them a kind of stark effect and makes them stand out very clearly against the muddy background.
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released September 25, 2016
Music and Production by Ludvig Alm
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