I found this awesome bouncy little synth sound one night and started improvising the “Angels We Have Heard On High” riff that repeats a few times at the beginning of the song. I put a couple of arpeggiators running over it, and then added the weird almost ambient drums to it–the “Shuck Snap Chshhhh!” which sound pretty cool. My intention was to have a hip hop section in the middle, but I never could get that to sound right. It was too fast, or too melodic, or too whatever; so I made it sound the way it does, and gave up on the hip hop thing.
credits
from Christmas and Glowsticks,
track released November 9, 2009
All instruments and arrangements by Joel Abbott
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