After three straight days twitch streaming my in-progress atmospheric black metal project, Farnese and the Stallion, I decided to do a story-song for this week’s 2HTS. The theme they gave us was ‘The Fortune Teller’.

We had a theme of ‘disintegrate’ and as practice for my upcoming atmospheric black gaze concept album ‘Farnese and the Stallion’, I decided to try a little of that here. Boy was that a bad idea!! However I learned some things from the experience so I’ll be better prepared for Wednesday.

So we took the 2HTS entry from May of 2020, where the theme was Crickets, and both remixed and remastered over the course of two weeks. For your “““enjoyment””” here are the original track, the remixed unmastered version (normalization only) and the remixed / remastered version.

I had a rough time with this week’s song. Probably because I got too ambitious on going off-time for the choruses. Not to mention hardware questions i haven’t addressed properly. In the end, i wound up cutting up and stitching together pieces of the song from parts that weren’t as terrible as others. It happens.

You can watch the whole thing go down on twitch.tv/urinalpooper and i’ve started posting 15-minute highlight reels on the TCB youtube channel but currently it only has 2HTS #361 available.

I upgraded the computer and expanded my interface and this is the first track written with the new setup. The theme was “House by the Lake” so I went with a 80s slasher movie vibe. You can catch the ‘making of’ stream over on twitch.tv/urinalpooper. I’ve also solidified my schedule so that I plan to stream 2HTS every sunday and a new series called Mix with the Schlubs every Friday at 6pm EDT.