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Cant Look Away

https://videos.grahampaasch.com/cant-look-away

Can't Look Away: an original song (4:00), made after Graham said Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction" has good bass, a weird drill sound he likes, and is impossible to ignore, but is a little "farty". It is electro house at 128 bpm in A minor. Its center is a power drill that plays the hook: a grinding motor (a stack of harmonics with a 7 Hz wobble and gritty noise at 31 pulses a second), plus a high, steady router whine on the hooks and builds. Graham picked both sounds from a palette of eight. The pitch never glides. Under it there is a heavy, clean bass, kept mono and away from all distortion. A robotic voice chants an original lyric ("Wind it up / wind it tight... Can't look away / turning, turning"). Nothing is sampled or quoted from "Satisfaction". Made 2026-11-06: ACE-Step 1.5 XL turbo (open weights, run locally on the 3090) made the song, seed 902. Then a "motor" chain written in Python: 16th-note RPM pulsing locked to the tempo, torque bursts (drive and bitcrush, filtered high) at phrase ends, a cut to the farty 120-550 Hz band, and the synthesized drill riff laid on the beat grid in the song's key. Mastered to -14 LUFS. Claude chose it from 5 contrasting candidates. The video shows a steel rotor spinning in the dark. It spins with the drill, glows with the bass, and throws sparks on the loud moments. Audio: /f/cant-look-away.mp3