Dungeonmans - 'The Oud, The Santoor, and The Sitar' [Enmired Herpetology] (Progressive, Middle-Eastern)

[timaeus222]

I just finished this middle-eastern progressive dubstep ReMix of Dungeonmans' " Enmired Herpetology" by @zircon ! Hope you enjoy (Note: Soundcloud does make the treble have some aliasing issues so don't worry about that.)

Here's the original:

A writeup about it below:

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Hiya! It's been a while since you guys have had a Dungeonmans ReMix, eh? This time I arranged "Enmired Herpetology" in a progressive middle-eastern dubstep style, featuring the Turkish Oud (Impact Soundworks), Santoor (East West Quantum Leap Ra), and Sitar (my Zebra2 preset collection). This takes inspiration from Mervin Matthew's "PetiStep" Bollywood Harmonium demo, and has some scattered influence from zircon's stuff (the sine wave bells in particular).

I had so much fun writing this; it only took about 10 hours to compose, and then another 12 hours to polish the details, overall spanning 3 weeks, and I think that that tells you how this is one of my more "patient" pieces---it takes its sweet time to evolve, but doesn't necessarily try to be too flashy. Even at the climaxes, there isn't a ton of stuff going on at once, just big harmonies.

Nonetheless, there some cool things to mention here:
- The distorted lead sound (such as at 1:02 - 1:12) is actually one of my electro house basses that I pitched up a few octaves.
- I tried some new, FREE effects plugins from kiloHearts Essentials, using their Transient Shaper, Filter, and/or Ring Modulator on the drums!
- There is a LOT of sine wave bell action going on, which was the backbone for the entire ReMix. It outlined the chord progressions for me and became an apt way to end things as well! I really liked it because since it's only a single harmonic, it's almost always audible no matter the context.

It's been over 5 years since the release of Dungeonmans, but it seems to be going strong, and I hope that that continues to be the case!

...By the way, see if you can spot where I put the key change.

Extra Info:

Source Breakdown:
0:00.00 - 0:31.47 = Intro (0:06:22 - 0:38.19)
0:31.47 - 0:52.34 = Harmonium Dubstep Drop (0:38.19 - 0:59.54) [loose]
0:52.34 - 1:13.20 = "Chorus" (0:59.54 - 1:10.22)
1:13.20 - 1:34.08 = Bridge A (0:59.54 - 1:10.22)
1:34.08 - 2:05.38 = Bridge B (1:10.22 - 1:20.89)
2:05.38 - 2:15.83 = Bridge C (1:20.89 - 1:31.56)
2:15.83 - 2:47.12 = Breakdown A (1:31.56 - 1:52.89)
2:47.12 - 2:57.55 = Breakdown B (1:52.89 - 2:16.89)
2:57.55 - 3:28.86 = Climax (2:16.89 - 2:38.21)

31.47 + 20.87 + 20.86 + 20.88 + 31.30 + 10.45 + 31.29 + 10.43 + 31.31
= 208.86/223.29
= 93.5%

Edited August 2, 2023 by timaeus222