diff --git a/tracks/extreme-beads/README.md b/tracks/extreme-beads/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5cc6845 --- /dev/null +++ b/tracks/extreme-beads/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# Extreme Beads + +**Artist:** MoBead +**Length target:** ~3:00 (compact downtempo single) +**Released:** 2026-05-29 (draft), branched 2026-06-06 +**Label:** BadBeadRecords + +## Concept + +MoBead's contemplative debut. A beadmaker at 3am — endless thread, repetitive craft, karma counted bead-by-bead, the obsession of small mechanical motion under lamplight. The chorus locks onto a single phrase ("Extreme beads") as an anchor, repeating with subtle variation. Existential weight inside a tiny gesture. + +Companion piece to MoBead's analytical roots (the act emerged from a reverse-engineering of a 2002 cinematic-breakbeat track — vibe homage, original lyrics, original phrasing throughout). All hook patterns are MoBead's own; the only intentional structural nod is the title-anchor chorus form, which is a common songcraft device. + +## Production highlights + +- **124 BPM, D minor (modal)** — locked mechanical groove with orchestral sorrow on top +- **Voice:** male baritone, weathered deadpan half-chant, dry close-mic, full human grain preserved +- **Bead-click foley:** strung-bead shaker as a high-mid ghost — this is the BadBeadRecords-specific texture under the strings +- **Bell motif:** detuned synth bell doubled by hardwood marimba mallet on a two-note minor-third ostinato + +## Files + +- [`lyrics.md`](./lyrics.md) — full lyrics, all sections +- [`production-notes.md`](./production-notes.md) — 770-char production card + +## Credits + +- **Creative direction:** Puff Beaddy +- **Lyrics:** BadBeadRecords lyrics room +- **Production notes:** BadBeadRecords production room +- **Brief from:** Tee (2026-05-29) diff --git a/tracks/extreme-beads/lyrics.md b/tracks/extreme-beads/lyrics.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36c2266 --- /dev/null +++ b/tracks/extreme-beads/lyrics.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +# Extreme Beads — Lyrics + +**Artist:** MoBead +**Track:** Extreme Beads + +--- + +``` +TITLE OPTIONS: Extreme Beads +ARTIST: MoBead + +[INTRO — instrumental, 8 bars] + +[VERSE 1] +Three a.m. and the lamp is low +Wire in the teeth, the pliers slow +Counting little weights I never weighed +Each one a debt I think I made +Glass on the bench, a quiet hill +Hands won't quit, the kettle's still +Threading hours I can't unwind +One more knot to leave behind + +[CHORUS] +Extreme beads +Extreme beads again +Extreme beads the lamp burned through +Extreme beads, I'm threading through + +[VERSE 2] +Map of towns along a thread +Every place I left unsaid +Bone and copper, chipped and old +Karma cut and karma sold +Click on wire, click on stone +A small machine I run alone +Eyes gone dry, the window grey +Pull the line, another day +Fingertips remember more than me +Tiny rooms I'll never see + +[CHORUS] +Extreme beads +Extreme beads again +Extreme beads I carry through +Extreme beads, the morning too + +[BRIDGE] +Dust on the lamp, dust on the wrist +Nothing I made, nothing I missed +The string keeps going +I keep going + +[FINAL CHORUS] +Extreme beads +Extreme beads again +Extreme beads I cannot lose +Extreme beads, I had to choose +Extreme beads +Extreme beads again +Extreme beads inside the room +Extreme beads, the lamp, the loom + +[OUTRO — fade, 8 bars] +One more knot +One more morning coming on +``` diff --git a/tracks/extreme-beads/production-notes.md b/tracks/extreme-beads/production-notes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbd0d78 --- /dev/null +++ b/tracks/extreme-beads/production-notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Extreme Beads — Production Notes + +**Artist:** MoBead +**Track:** Extreme Beads + +--- + +``` +TITLE: Extreme Beads +ARTIST: MoBead +GENRE/STYLE: Downtempo cinematic breakbeat, trip-hop +BPM: 124 +KEY: D minor (modal) +VOICE: Male baritone, nasal deadpan half-chant. Stepwise fifth. Dry close-mic, plate reverb, hook doubled an octave under. +INSTRUMENTATION: Chopped break, 8th synth bass, legato minor string pad, detuned bell + marimba (min-3rd ostinato), noise riser, tambourine, sub swell under chorus, bead-click foley (bead-shaker, high-mid ghost). +AMBIANCE: Wide strings over dry-center groove — 3am workbench, spacious yet claustrophobic. +REFERENCE VIBE: Rain at the window, single lamp, beads clicking on wire — orchestral sorrow over a locked mechanical groove. +STRUCTURE: 8b intro, 16b v1, 8b chorus (strings in), v2, ch2, 8b breakdown, final chorus, 8b fade. +```