Different drums (and a different bass)

As I hoped, the drum take I ended up with for "Modern Art" has a nice, retro relaxed feel to it.  (In the sheet music I'd prepared, I marked it "Think Beatles".)  I decided to lean into this by mixing the drums slightly differently from normal, at least for the non-Goof Attack mix!  Rather than have every stem at a different pan position, I divided them strictly into three groups, panning one 50% left, one centre and one 50% right - the effect does indeed hearken back to the late 1960s when producers were just starting to fully explore the possibilities of stereo.

The interlude between verses 3 and 4 has undergone another significant revision, as if it wasn't already different enough from the five-sawtooth-synthesizer freak-out in the Escapade version.  I'd long felt that the sequence of piano chords that replaces it in the Escapade 2 version (as well as the informal solo-piano version before it) also needed a bass part underneath it that isn't just one repeated note.  But I wasn't sure how it might play out, other than vaguely wanting something funky.

So I had the drummer improvise something funky there.  I then transcribed what he came up with back into the score, and with that, the right bass line came to me, clear as day.  So although the track in progress sounds a little strange, I think it'll ultimately come together quite nicely.