tracks/extreme-beads/README.md

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+# 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)

tracks/extreme-beads/lyrics.md

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+# 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
+```

tracks/extreme-beads/production-notes.md

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+# 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.
+```