This is the third track from the soundtrack for an abandoned game that was to be titled "Unearthed: The Mines of Estra".

This level featured a glowing cave filled with giant crystals. The track needed to feel "crystal-like".

I did a lot of custom sampling for this one including layering various recordings of breaths underneath the decays of some of the percussive layers, tapping glass bottles, bowing cymbals, and created a lot of the clicky percussion using a sample of a screw dropped onto a plastic plate. However, the real heavy lifting came from sampling my cat's metal food bowl which, for whatever reason, has an incredibly resonant bell-tone. (I discovered this accidentally when I was trying to get his attention and tapped the bowl with my fingernail). I created a rubber mallet by supergluing a skewer into a superball I bought at a dollar store and sampled several takes of hitting the bowl, and rubbing the rubber surface along the edge. I also did several takes using a metal beater for a triangle to get a sharper attack. These samples were pitch bent across a wide range of the spectrum using melodyne so I could use them melodically.

This is my personal favorite cue from the soundtrack.

As previously mentioned on the last few track releases, The full album will be coming out on Wednesday, August 23rd, so I will be intermittently releasing all 5 tracks one a time here until then.

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