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+# Motherboard — Production Analysis
+
+**Type:** Reverse-engineering / vibe spine
+**Date analyzed:** 2026-05-29 → revised 2026-05-30
+**Label:** BadBeadRecords
+
+## What this is
+
+Reverse-engineering of an instrumental 2013 robotic-disco track from a major French electronic act. The 778-char production card captures the sonic DNA — 103 BPM, E minor, vocoded vowel choir pad as the lead surface texture, machine-tight live percussion ensemble, processional electronic-orchestral build — without naming the act, its members, the album, or any of the act's visual/conceptual signatures.
+
+## Revision history
+
+- **v1 (2026-05-29):** First analysis. Hallucinated brass stabs, anchored BPM to 119–123 from a bad gut estimate.
+- **v2 (2026-05-30, "more daft, less funk"):** Tee flagged the vibe drift — too funk, not electronic enough. Producer did real research: BPM corrected to **103** (3 sources cross-referenced), key revised to **E minor**, brass deleted, **flute promoted to lead** (and then demoted in v3 to counter-line behind the vocoded vowel choir, the act's true signature surface texture). Funk vocabulary reframed as "automated funk, human warmth welded to a grid."
+
+## Downstream use
+
+Will serve as the vibe spine for **MoBead — Motherbead (built itself while you slept)** (see `tracks/motherbead-built-itself-while-you-slept/` once merged).
+
+## Files
+- [`production-notes.md`](./production-notes.md) — 778-char analysis card
+
+## Credits
+- **Creative direction:** Puff Beaddy
+- **Analyst:** BadBeadRecords production room
+- **Brief from:** Tee (2026-05-29, revised 2026-05-30)

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+# Motherboard — Production Analysis
+
+**Type:** Reverse-engineering analysis (no lyrics)
+**Brief from:** Tee 2026-05-29 (revised 2026-05-30 — "more daft, less funk")
+**Label:** BadBeadRecords
+
+---
+
+```
+GENRE/STYLE: robotic-disco / electronic-orchestral, mechanized funk-procession
+BPM: 103
+KEY: E minor
+VOICE: vocoded harmonized-vowel choir pad as lead surface texture; breathy agile flute counter-line; mono-synth threads underneath.
+INSTRUMENTATION: modular synth pulses + arpeggios as electronic spine; metronomic plucked bass; staccato chicken-scratch guitar quantized to grid; live hand-percussion (congas, bongos, shaker) locked machine-tight; dry kit; upper string pad.
+AMBIANCE: processional, widescreen, ceremonial — automated funk, human warmth welded to a grid.
+REFERENCE VIBE: circuitry waking at dusk, woodwind marching neon machinery down a quantized boulevard.
+STRUCTURE: perc 0-16, flute 16-32, full groove 32-64, choir lift 64-96, breakdown 96-112, tutti 112-end.
+```
+
+778 chars / 800 cap. BPM and key research-backed (3 sources: SongBPM, GetSongBPM, Musicstax). Source act, members, album, and act-signature visual identifiers deliberately unnamed.