Hey, an alias that wasn't utilised on the 2016 Christmas album! Was wonderin' when one of those would turn up.

Some departure from the original sketches is to be expected with these reworks, for a couple of reasons. For one, I've become better at composing in the timespan between working on the demos to now; for another, a lot of the time I'd drop demos simply because I'd run out of ideas on how to expand the track or flesh it out.

All that said, this is still the most radical shake up of any of the XMAS 2017 tracks so far.

The original piece was a dubstep number by the name of "A Bullet for Your Thoughts", intended to be used as a character theme for a killer7-inspired project when finished. That, obviously, didn't happen, and was one of several Hypnotherapist songs that got dropped before the alias was retired. Fixing it into a Juke/Footwork number wasn't my initial idea, but once it came to mind it stuck (I've been itching to do more stuff of this style anyway). The change in key was entirely motivated by the fact that one of my weaknesses as a musician is a tendency to write/compose stuff either using D# as a root note, or chords built around D#- so I'm making more of an effort to get my root ideas down and, if they're in that key, shift them about a bit until I find a new one I like.

I'm definitely a little picky about some of the drops here- I feel they're not quite as tight as maybe they could be- but I am VERY happy with how the main bass sections came out, as well as a majority of the drum samples/patterns throughout. I also had entirely too much fun mocking up that 'censored' "OHHHH FUCK YEAH" sample, and am far more amused by that silly "oh I say, it's a gunman thing" vocal I supply at the end then I should be.

Fun fact: the title of this song is a direct reference to the greatest cutscene in video game history (www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrLfKYYASo). The only thing keeping me from sampling it directly is the fact that it's got BGM running behind the whole thing (well and my whole "no external samples except my own voice" rule for the album but ayyyy).

Original Sketch: 103records.bandcamp.com/track/a-bullet-for-your-thoughts-demo-repeat-syndrome