What Inspired Your Best Track?

This isn't a general "inspiration" question coz we all know the predictable answer to that: Take a walk, have a wank, etc.

This is a specific question about how exactly you came up with your Best* track. What inspired it, what you were thinking of when you wrote/produced it, what you were trying to achieve with it.

*feel free to define "best" however you like - your favourite track, the track of yours that other people like best, the one that sold the most, gets the most requests, the track you feel proudest of, even the one that just has the best story if you want to cheat.

And go ahead and post a link to said track if you feel like it, to help illustrate. Though please, just one track at a time!

p.s. this is mostly directed at music type people but if any visual artists have particularly interesting stories that's cool, too.

The one that i got the most compliments for was "Don Walsh & Jacques Picard" for Futonic's Tribute to Deep Sea Creatures.

inspired by this picture

I imagined these guys descending into the Mariana Trench and arriving at an underwater city. Concluding with the sense of relief that they made it, and a mixture of finding this pleasant new place, but remembering that home is thousands of meters upward.

the song is on the player here http://www.myspace.com/futonicrecords

That's a great story! Fantastic pic, I love all the old fashioned looking gear. (And I listened to the track, v nice - you got a lovely song out of it, to boot.)

p.s. I really love those kind of glass harmonium sounds you use

wanking and crying

after a particularly harrowing weekend in Polgigga many many years ago

Well most of the time my inspiration comes from other artiest who's music I find god like. Its been making me strive to make music as godly as them, still just a noob though.

However, recently I made this song using samples from a game I play a lot and I feel proud of it. It also had a lot of input from a good friend and turned out really interesting.

  On 1/21/2010 at 6:05 PM, Masonic Boom said:

That's a great story! Fantastic pic, I love all the old fashioned looking gear. (And I listened to the track, v nice - you got a lovely song out of it, to boot.)

 

p.s. I really love those kind of glass harmonium sounds you use

thanks, glad you like.

the glass is from wine glasses, they may have been crystal, not sure. ..and various objects around my room at the time

these scenes has been the inspiration for about 80% of every track i've made in the last couple of years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoHdC9hCQNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvoTDoO9Hg

(yes, i produce 80's workout music )

my reflection

  On 1/21/2010 at 9:09 PM, data said:

(yes, i produce 80's workout music )

...and they're usually awesome!

Actually the time in the mid 90s when all my musical bits and bobs had dwindled down to one dodgy 50p casiotone with ridiculous horsey vibes about it and a fucked up amstrad 4 track and a yamaha delay pedal (the best delay pedal ever after the boss dd5 or ps2 in fact no it's better than them) and for a few days i'd been making this 45 minute tape album of moody droning ambient nonsense but then we did some double-weird mushrooms and drew mexican moustaches on our chins with a magic marker and had a gunfight at an indie disco with one crap plastic six shooter capgun and i went home and made HORSEBACK DISCO the greatest song of all time which I wouldn't expect anybody else apart from me and about 2 other people to like (unless of course you are a cool dude with amazing taste in everything)

  On 1/21/2010 at 10:30 PM, LUDD said:

 

I don't have amazing taste about everything but I consider it to be a privilege to have this in my collection. I can practically see the process from here, and I fucking love it.

I'll listen to all these tomorrow when I have a proper connection again. The explanations make me quite excited to hear them. ;-)

  On 1/21/2010 at 9:17 PM, Adjective said:

  On 1/21/2010 at 9:09 PM, data said:

(yes, i produce 80's workout music )

...and they're usually awesome!

  On 1/22/2010 at 1:54 AM, data said:

  On 1/21/2010 at 9:17 PM, Adjective said:

  On 1/21/2010 at 9:09 PM, data said:

(yes, i produce 80's workout music )

...and they're usually awesome!

 

Ha ha, it's absolutely true. I'm flicking through your tracks right now and they do all sound like soundtracks to montages of atheletes training in 80s inspirational films. (And I mean that in the best possible way.)

  On 1/21/2010 at 6:58 PM, LUDD said:

wanking and crying

 

after a particularly harrowing weekend in Polgigga many many years ago

 

 

Wank more! I like the atmospherics on this track, especially towards the end where it picks up and goes all bendy like a siren.

  On 1/21/2010 at 7:11 PM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

Well most of the time my inspiration comes from other artiest who's music I find god like. Its been making me strive to make music as godly as them, still just a noob though.

 

However, recently I made this song using samples from a game I play a lot and I feel proud of it. It also had a lot of input from a good friend and turned out really interesting.

 

Ha ha, the big drop on this scared the shit out of me when it came in. Nice.

  On 1/21/2010 at 10:30 PM, LUDD said:

Actually the time in the mid 90s when all my musical bits and bobs had dwindled down to one dodgy 50p casiotone with ridiculous horsey vibes about it and a fucked up amstrad 4 track and a yamaha delay pedal (the best delay pedal ever after the boss dd5 or ps2 in fact no it's better than them) and for a few days i'd been making this 45 minute tape album of moody droning ambient nonsense but then we did some double-weird mushrooms and drew mexican moustaches on our chins with a magic marker and had a gunfight at an indie disco with one crap plastic six shooter capgun and i went home and made HORSEBACK DISCO the greatest song of all time which I wouldn't expect anybody else apart from me and about 2 other people to like (unless of course you are a cool dude with amazing taste in everything)

 

 

gotta say i fuckin love this one haha. semnal fluid was nice but this one really shines for some reason.

my best track so far is still under construction but it's a description of the feeling right after you've secured that date you've been longing for.

horseback disco is fucking amazing!

horesback disco is good stuff. for some reason i kept expecting a lyric to swell in.

i haven't written in a long time but usually the samples i use i try to make them personal...

All factors.

i once hooked the line out of a microphone secured to the belly of a screaming caterpillar to a distortion pedal and an hour later i finished my best track.

My Typical Day

I was in a depression trough but had more energy than usual. I decided to take my recently acquired modular for a bassline spin and this popped out while reflecting on how all I do is sit around and wank with instruments.

  On 1/23/2010 at 6:58 AM, acidphakist said:

My Typical Day

 

I was in a depression trough but had more energy than usual. I decided to take my recently acquired modular for a bassline spin and this popped out while reflecting on how all I do is sit around and wank with instruments.

Taking everything into consideration, I don't know why I'm commenting on you comment, but I gotta say, this is the one that made me pay attention. The opening chord progression is wicked to me, along with everything else, but it grabbed me from 00:01 because of those haunting chords.

No boundaries I cannot cross.