Locked Blocks

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Intro: solo square-wave folk melody line

[Build: bass pulse enters on the root, four bars, kick still absent]

[Build: hi-hat sixteenths stack, four bars, melody drops its fourth and fifth notes]

[Build: counter-melody a fourth above, four bars, coin-slot click on every downbeat]

[Build: kick quantised to the grid, four bars, tempo lifts 118 to 126 BPM]

[Pre-Drop: melody cut to its first four notes, looped, filter opens over eight bars, all drums out on the last beat]

Drop 1: full-weight bass, folk motif in detuned saw stabs, 126 BPM, block-lock thud doubling the kick

Drop 1: motif inverted on the repeat, sub drops an octave, sixteen bars

Break: stripped — single block-lock thud every two bars, CRT hum underneath, no bass

Break: motif returns one note at a time, stacking into a solid wall, rows clearing as white-noise sweeps

Bridge: synthwave — slow pad chords, gated arpeggio, tape hiss, no drums, 112 BPM

Bridge: pads turn minor, arpeggio doubles, snare roll enters from far away and comes close

[Pre-Drop 2: silence for one bar, then the first four notes at 132 BPM]

Drop 2: melody at double speed, every layer locked in place, 132 BPM, no filter movement

Drop 2: counter-melody and lead collide in unison, sixteen bars, no fills

Outro: layers clear line by line, tempo unwinds to 118, last square wave alone

Outro: ring-modulated decay, then CRT hum only, four bars, cut