the happy accident

I love accidents - the things that happen during recording that result in everybody yelling "Keep it! Keep it!" I was working on some tracks last night and nothing was working. Everything sounded too fast or too corny or too "electronic" and just couldn't get into anything. Then, I loaded up session I had started a while back that was just a Moog bassline and some blippy noises. Reason was slaved to Pro Tools (via ReWire) but it had the wrong file loaded, so when the track started it was playing a beat I had written for a 126 BPM song, but at 85 BPM. It was crawling, and it made my hair stand up! What had sounded goofy and derivative at 126 sounded darkly funky and cool at 85. I slapped on a quiet ambient pad from Curt's JP8000 (which I have kidnapped) and a track started to take shape. Now I have to forget about it again for a month and then stumble across it while I'm hating a different track.