GOPNIK SOUL

started with whistled eastern european motifs — stuff that's been bouncing around my head since childhood, hummed into the AI as seed material to riff on. wanted every track to sit in the same sonic neighborhood: fat, dense, none of them breathing in a different room. spent the cycles getting the low end to land the same way each time, trimming whatever didn't earn its place. mastered at -8 LUFS / -1 dBTP — loud enough to compete on a playlist, with enough headroom that the streaming re-encode doesn't cave it in.