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Style of: Innellea | Melodic Techno Afterlife in Ableton

Production Music Live Jul 3, 2024 1 min readWatch on YouTube

This is session 8 of the YouTube Series with Francois PML called "Producer Notes". In Episode 008 we're analysing the Melodic Techno style of artist "Innellea" and labels like Afterlife Recordings.

Watch and see what we can learn from this style sitting somewhere between Melodic Techno and Trance.

The key lessons from this episode are:

Stabby, Metallic, Bassy Leads (often with interplay between high and low stabs)
Energetic Buildups, Drums
Epic (cinematic) chords / Pads (with tremolo, LFO effects)
Emotional Trancy Melodies, Trancy Leads and Atmos
Trance-Gates - Arrangement: Q+As with Trance Gates and Stabs (eg: Track “the world returns”)

Referenced in this video:

🗳 Ableton Project File from this video (Part of Melodic Techno V2 Academy Pack)
📦 Everything Bundle
🎹 Music Theory for Melodic Techno & House
🎙 Vocals Vol.1 Sample Pack
🥁 Deep Premium Vol. 6 Drum Sample Pack
🎹 Progressive Melodic House Sound Pack "Deep Vibes"

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