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The cover artwork of Norilsk, showing a roundabout and four buildings in the titular Arctic city stylised as vector art. The cover artwork has a frosty cold faint blue aura. Two smoke stacks and power lines can be seen in t he background.
The cover artwork of Norilsk, showing a roundabout and four buildings in the titular Arctic city stylised as vector art. The cover artwork has a frosty cold faint blue aura. Two smoke stacks and power lines can be seen in t he background.

Norilsk

A hard lo-fi track soundtracking the titular Arctic city in the permafrost zone!
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Norilsk (2020)

Introducing my 30th release: Norilsk!

Norilsk is a hard-lofi (is that the right genre?) track I started on April 24, 2019, but only finished recently. It sounds like it'd make a good backing track for rapping or hip-hop lyrics.

Like almost all my other tracks, this track started with a beat, and then I added similar elements as I went. My style of production is to let the start of the track guide the rest of my my track development, so because I started with a cold, slow beat, what naturally followed were sombre and chilling bells and pads.

What inspired me to produce this track further, was this photo of Norilsk, a Russian city famous for it's -55°C winters and nickel mines, that the photographer Elena Chernyshova took in 2014:

http://web.archive.org/web/20240725065042/www.festivalphoto-lagacilly.com/photographes/elena-chernyshova#&gid=1&pid=3

When I saw that photo, I knew this track had to be dedicated to Norilsk. This track was then finished in late July 2020.

Fun facts about this track:

  • Before discovering Norilsk, this track was originally called Arkhangelsk.
  • The track "Snowcone" by deadmau5 was another inspiration for this track.
  • The sections starting at minutes 4:40 and at 8:00 were intended to be in their own track, but I moved them to here because I felt they'd best fit with Norilsk's heavy kicks. I'm now merging similar-sounding tracks to reduce the 240+ unfinished projects I have while also developing them.

I hope you enjoy this track! Do you want to give me feedback? Click email", or DM me on Mastodon! I use your feedback to improve my newer tracks like these.

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