The Ground Is Lava is a noodley-pop-punk band from the Akron/Cleveland area. We first saw opening for my friends band Empire!Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate). E!E!(IWaLE) was playing at what i consider the best venue in Ohio, Akron's The Kling Thing. They were very energetic and a little rough around the edges but they reminded me of Braid. I thought that was pretty awesome. A while later they put out a very promising first record called Freeze Tag. The last track on the record though really stuck with me. While reviving my project For He is The Harbinger of Death covering songs my friends wrote (FTATHOD) I decided to make a version of Good Talk Russ.
The music is all done in NanoStudio. I used my synthstation controller to live track most of the synth lines. I modified the presets to get the sounds I liked. The drums were mostly done by drawing in the sequencer.
I am really digging the chiptune drumset. On this track I made use the delay and reverb to try and recreate the jangly capnjazz type drums Eric provides on the original. The many LFO controls were helpful with all the sparkles on one of the synth tracks.
I tracked the vocals in Studiomini but I am a little disappointed in the app. You can only record from the very beginning of the song and since this song has a decently long intro it took forever to record new takes. Having the lyrics on screen was really nice though. I am currently working on a paul b song and a Matadors of Shame song.
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