thank you for the kind words!

HEY! This track actually came out of the depths of my many references and samples. I found a slap-house pack in my archives. It reminded me of a meme I saw once upon a time -- the gregorian house meme of that one Toblerone anime.

Slap house is a genre that is particularly popular in Russia, has been for a while as well as commercial deep house. I've wanted to experiment with it for a long time. It's typically fairly simple in terms of rhythm and structure, focusing on groove and sound design. One of the many things I like about it! I still couldn't resist switching it up a bit at 2:04 with some chromaticism and olskool raw house samples, the kind that you find in old breakbeat.

As for why it's Gregorian, well, the choir, and I built the entire track off of said choir's chord progressions.

Don't worry -- I have a song coming up that's going to make you very happy, vocally speaking. It's a cover of t.A.T.u's "Sacrifice", in the same singing style as Clouds. Well, minus rapping xD

PS: thanks for the criticism and recommendation! Checking out now

Yeah, with the stories I've got going on, they focus more on the little moments than sexiness, though with Lilac the sexiness IS gonna happen (just not explicit stuff, more like she's trying to do anything to break him and it just isn't working, and she ends up gradually falling in love with him instead). This is during one of his weaker moments when he tries and fails to stand up for Lilac when a group of goons tries to solicit her (though given she's a demon she could easily take them out herself). Instead of admonishing him for being weak or pathetic or anything, all she wants to do is reassure him that he doesn't have to try so hard because he's already proven his worth to her in a different way. She just wants him to be himself and to continue doing what he knows because when he's in his zone, that's what she wants to see. Julian's sense of self-worth has been in the tank for years, but until this point in their budding relationship he's kept it behind a very well-kept mask. Only, as he helped Lilac get used to the human world and even start to enjoy being there, he can't help but feel that inferiority again, because she has everything he wants: he wants to be strong, carefree, a better stature, and overall just being a better person. After being beaten to hell and back, his self-loathing reaches a breaking point and, while Lilac's asleep, he starts trashing his study, his primary sanctuary, in a fit of inferiority-fueled rage. Lilac wakes up to this, and Julian starts telling her to say that he's weak, that he'll never measure up to anything, because if he can't even be strong enough to protect her, then what good is he to her? That's when she leads him to the bedroom and just focuses on consoling and reassuring her human partner, hence the picture. She doesn't care that he's physically weak or that his lung disease (unmentioned) keeps him from being able to protect her, because she's more than happy to be the protector instead. She knows that if she's ever in danger herself, regardless of his own weakness, he'll be there to endure it with her, because that's just the kind of person she knows he is. She spent the first few months of being in the human world focused solely on making his life hell and tormenting him, but to seemingly no avail. In truth, he had been internalizing all the insults and all of the attempts at making him miserable because even before he met her, that was all he really knew anyway: being alone, his mother having thrown him away at age 15 (she's an absolute headcase of a zealot who constantly said he was pretty much worthless because of his stunted height, his lung condition, and his odd eyes being a mark of evil). His uncle was the one who got him back on his feet and even left him the estate when he died, so Julian lived alone for a while before his studies bore fruit: summoning a demon, hence Lilac. Turns out, they were the best thing to ever happen to each other.

Sorry for the friggin' novel of a response. Once I started, I just couldn't stop!

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