Entwine

[pauli]

My main goals here were to smooth out the top octave and to add a little bit of drama without interfering with Skelpolu's signature sound. The synth tracks and drums seemed like they could use a little bit of warmth and character, so almost everything got a high cut and somewhere between a little and a lot of saturation.

Skelly likes to apply automation to his tracks before he prints them for mixing, so rather than fight it I used the same sort of tactics to subtly alter the sonics between passages. So in a few places I've added aggression to the drums with compression, other places dropped in some plate reverbs and delays to liven things up a bit, and automated some buss sends to a bright Lexicon impulse to give it some shine.

I gather this subgenre of D&B is supposed to be a little less intense than what I'm familiar with, and the tracking pointed in that direction as well, so this is mixed and "mastered" with a home listening environment (as opposed to a club) in mind, so it's not as loud as most of what's out there... ITunes normalizes to around -16 LUFS so that's the target.

Kudos to Skelly for this... it's a great song.