Part 3 of the Life and Times of a Star is live and up on Be Better’s Sound­cloud page. This one is called  A Quark Star. Over bil­lions and bil­lions of years, a Neu­tron star is thought to grow so dense that force of grav­ity it cre­ates once again smashes par­ti­cles (neu­trons) into each other break­ing them into tiny the­o­ret­i­cal bits called quarks. This state of a star’s evo­lu­tion is referred to as a Quark star.

As inspi­ra­tion for this track, a Quark star brought to my imag­i­na­tion a great sense of weight. A big pool of high den­sity energy made of zil­lions of lit­tle bits and par­ti­cles. To me this meant heavy bass and lots of charged lit­tle elec­tro effects and sound dust. The track had to be heavy, but also give a sense of speed and motion in order to rep­re­sent these  sub atomic par­ti­cles danc­ing around each other. I real­ized in musi­cal speak that there is very few con­cepts out there that are more ‘metal’ than a Quark Star.

A Quark Star was cre­ated entirely with 100% ana­logue syn­the­siz­ers in order to achieve a type of vin­tage outer space sound. These include the Ver­mona Mono Lancet, Ver­mona Kick Lancet, Korg Monotron, and the entire range of Moog Mooger­fooger ana­logue effects.

I hope you enjoy, feel free to down­load and as always, I appre­ci­ate any feed­back. Stay tuned for the grand finale in the series — A Black Hole…