This is our first album. Inter Galactic is a concept album, imagined to be a soundtrack of an unreleased post apocalyptic space travel game.
Youtube - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUcJW7X4HySnMb1DjeZFKNQOvZUgFC0Lr&si=mE-Oihjxc9CAjGbQ
Download Lossless - https://github.com/Kurtosis-Music/Inter-Galactic/releases/download/album/Inter.Galactic.zip
Track by track
Inter galactic (intro) - The melody in this track was the original seed for the track Inter galactic; however, it didn’t fit into the final track. We used the melody in the intro by slowing it down instead.
Inter galactic - This is the title track of the album. We used a spaceship lift-off sample for the buildup. The original title of this track was “Beyond the unknown” (that’s the lyrics you hear in the vocoded vocals), but then Nero (one of our favourite bands) released an album called “Into the unknown,” so we changed the title of this track to the album title.
Eternal - We started this in 2022. The track is in mixolydian ♭6, which gives it a melancholic feel until the drop hits. The drop is a mean, old-school DnB drop that feels raw on the processing side.
Eternal infinity - This is a slowed-down version of the previous track that serves as a bridge to the next track.
Falling ashes - This is our standout track from this album and our favourite. The track switches between mixolydian flat 6 and minor and is more on the cinematic side. This is also the only track in the album with singing in it. The singing is slightly vocoded with choir-type processing. Lyrics - “I see you, like falling ashes in the sky. Fading into you, walking through the blinding lights.”
Fade - This is an interlude with a very tense feeling. The interlude contains a text-to-speech sample that is heavily processed. It leads into the next track.
Crossfire - A very tense-feeling dubstep track with neurofunk basses. The track is in harmonic minor with a lot of techy sounds. The drop is almost in your face, with very little buildup, and is aggressive and loud.
Helium - This track serves as a change of pace. This is a dark synthwave track which fits the theme of the album really well, in our opinion. This did fairly well when we put it out compared to the minuscule amount of views we get otherwise, but YouTube decided to make the entire upload mono, and we had to re-upload it again.
Floating prison - This is an interlude, but it is also very distinct from the rest of the album. It is in a 6/8 time signature and is very industrial-sounding, with a lot of noisy sounds and industrial percussion.
Space patrol - We loved the drop and nothing else from the original demo, so we remade everything else from scratch for this. For us, this sounds like a soundtrack for a police chase, but in space—that’s the reason we named it Space patrol. The last part of this track was made once the track listing was decided, and we had to switch from phrygian to dorian.
Shifting - Our first liquid DnB track, and this is in dorian. We chose the scale for two reasons: we had never done anything in this scale before, and most of our favourite Pendulum tracks are in dorian.
The time machine (reprise) - This is a complete reworking of a demo from 2017. This was released in 2019, but we thought we could do better. The original track was a drumstep track, but the reprise version is jungle. This is probably the heaviest track of this album.
Vortex - This is another high-energy, fast-paced track. This track is somewhere between neurofunk and dancefloor DnB.
Rust - This is the oldest track of the album in its original form. This is a deep dubstep track which focuses on wobbly sub-basses and tries to create a dark atmosphere.
Solstice - We end the album on a hopeful mood. This track is in a major key, which we generally don’t do, but it somehow fits for this track. This track also combines two things that are not often seen together: dubstep and synthwave. Although calling it dubstep is a little bit of a stretch because, although the drums are definitely dubstep in the first drop, the rest of the sounds feel retro. The second drop doubles down on its retro vibe; it’s synthwave-y but at 150 BPM.
Crossfire orchestral dubstep VIP - Super proud of how this turned out. This wasn’t originally planned, but after listening to some church organs and Bach, we decided to make an orchestral variation of this track, since it was already in harmonic minor and in the key of D as well. We had something like this in mind ever since we heard the Nero orchestral symphony.
