Influences
Madison Park, “Saving You, Saving Me” (more on that in a moment)
Saint Etienne, “Like a Motorway” (because it influenced my attempt at remixing Madison Park, “Saving You, Saving Me” – trickle-down influence)
Moby, “Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)” (this could be any ’90s house song with a piano arpeggio, but Madison Park asked about the Moby influence, and I think you can draw a straight enough line from that song to this one)
Story
This is named because it started as a remix of Madison Park’s “Saving You, Saving Me.” As I like the band and I’d had some contact with them (they liked There’s Much Left to Explore), I offered to remix the song when it came out and they let me. But I didn’t make something sufficiently to their liking.
I was sad for a bit, but then I realized all my original parts were a mixed/balanced song half, so I took the rhythmic feel of the remix and wrote a completely new set of notes with it. I really like the standard piano mixed with a ’90s Kawai harp sound to combine into a fairly sweet-sounding ’90s piano – it’s kind of both sounds and neither sound at the same time.
I guess the two big secret things with this song are that:
– The bass line in the first part becomes the melody in the third part; and
– The stretching-shrinking hi-hats in the third part are playing a countermelody, but unless they’re isolated it’s virtually impossible to know what it is.
When Madison Park listened to the album, they asked about this song’s influences specifically, not mentioning the remix bit. It appears I sufficiently differentiated us as a matter of intellectual property. Hooray!
Some press about it
““Flawed Soteriology” reminds of Boards of Canada in its icy piano trickles and chilly synth pads. The track is enjoyably indicative of both the project’s stirring songwriting and standout production.” – Obscure Sound
“#FlawedSoteriology has a feel of EDM, Hip Hop and classical in its production. There are some beautiful classical keys being played here that are accompanied by heavy distorted basslines and a Hip-Hop drum layer to provide the listener with something very very very different that seems to work!” – Tamara Jenna, TJPL News
Next song: Multicam Behavioral Health
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