Maybe I should've read before pressing play it went from a pretty ambiant, mystical and slightly joyful piece to some very modern percs and dark tone, after reading and looking at the titles name that made so much more sense. I really appreciate all the different variations you put in your tracks it was refreshing, very japanese sounding modern or more traditional , works pretty well good job !
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Thank you! And yeah it's all good maybe I will do less lore-heavy tracks in future jams and keep things self-contained, I think people want to just listen to music and don't realize that there is some context, but I just kind of went with it because I wanted to know what was so secret about this lake lol.
As for the tone shift, some traditional Japanese scales (well, not the typical major and minor pentatonic ones of course) are pretty close to the "darker" modes in western music theory (Phrygian, Locrian etc.) and given that some scales were not permitted, I sort of leaned into that darkness a bit music and lore-wise.
Some hip hop is also pretty dark so some of those modern percussion beats were inspired by these kinds of music, but I guess if I were to be truly historically accurate drum machines didn't exist back in the 1910s-1920s haha. (but they still work well with the traditional instruments IMO)