Alex Rudinger - Thomas Giles - “Echo Chamber“ (ft. Jake of Plini)

This track, “Echo Chamber“, has a pretty interesting backstory! It’s a track from Thomas Giles new solo EP (singer of BTBAM, for anyone who didn’t already know), ’Feel Nothing’ (links below to check out the whole thing!). At any rate (!) - a long while back now, Tommy hit me up with an idea for writing some new music. The idea was that we’d sort of right ’backwards’ - I’d program / write a bunch of random drum ideas, in a structure of sorts, with no idea of what music would go on top of it. Then, he’d write guitar / vocal parts *around* the pre-existing drum parts. The only direction I had was to sort of make it blast beat-y / extreme-metal-ish. I thought it was a rad idea - a fun way to write a bit differently, that could potentially / hopefully spark some interesting ideas. I’ve since done this with a few other people, too (in fact, the track “The Ones That Made Us“ from the latest Whitechapel album was written this way -