A Personal trip with Futurist’s 'Bearer of the Curse'
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FUTURIST is the alias of Virginia based Kirk Young. A recent university graduate of Film Production and Mass Communications. Quiet for the last couple years he’s completed his first mature release, “A Mosiac of Time” a mini sized opus of an EP which covers his diverse sound.
This transporting track caught me on a car ride home from work. Driving on streets not well lit by lamplight in the late hours of the evening. Windows down, joint in hand, with cool fall air breezing through my window. I found myself transfixed on the road before me, lights and peripheries passing by in a way which seemed synchronized with the chaotic modular pulsations and percussion. My body present and controlling the vehicle, but my mind taken to places and memories not often seen... Nostalgic ruminations, and deep sighs of retrospection, follow one until the very end, when the voice finally sets us free. Futurist always has a way of triggering the sentimental within the listener, or maybe that’s just me.
"The story of ‘Bearer of the Curse’ is really all about the production techniques. It came out of a crazy modular patch that I made that had a bunch of wild percussion in it. It was a crazy modular patch I made with a crazy delay and then I chopped that all up with like a sequencer in Ableton. That’s what created the drumbeat and all the textures. That's all the modular. I was stuck on the melody and the chords for a while. I wasn’t sure what to put overtop the drums so I checked out an old Copycatt chord patch he had in an old sample pack and used that for some reference. In the end I came up with a little melody and chord progression I was happy with. I showed Amir from Satellite Era seeking his opinion on the drums but he actually told me the melody was my favorite part. So I kept it and continued to tweak it into making it sound a bit more dreamly like it appears in the final version of the song. The quote I added was from Dark Souls 2, I have all sorts of video game voice lines saved on my computer and I chucked that ontop and it worked really well! It was great because it helped me title the song, for the longest time I had it titled “Sounds like Autechre” as a placeholder haha "~ Words from Futurist on ‘Bearer of the Curse’
Curated and released by the ever tasteful curators at Satellite Era, today we’re proud to premiere “Bearer of the Curse” whose modular percussions and haunting melody lay to bear a felt moment captured and expressed in perpetuity through the sounds of Futurist.
