This Producer Captured a Bumblebee and Sampled Its Buzz to Make Raw Electro

Lomotor has joined forces with an unlikely collaborator for his latest single: a curious bumblebee.

Turning woodland whispers into nostalgic electronic music, Lomotor is a producer living in the woods of northern Massachusetts. He makes biomusic inspired by the inspired by the organic sounds of the hills and valleys around his rural home, like chirping insects, swaying leaves and the gentle splosh of wooden canoe paddles.

The title of his new track leaves nothing to the imagination. Buzzing with raw electro, "Bee in a Bag" propels on the wings of a sample he recorded after ensnaring a bumblebee in a paper bag.

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"Bee in a Bag" is an ecosystem unto itself. After recording the bee, Lomotor produced a synth line using Moog's Grandmother semi-modular analog synthesizer and recorded drums on an ADS-7 mk2, a fully analog drum machine from AVP inspired by electronic music from the 70s and 80s.

Those sounds intertwine with the captive bee's frantic hum, creating a soundscape that's both claustrophobic and expansive. An exercise in finding harmony in chaos, the track's sampled drone is a relentless reminder of nature's persistent rhythms.

"I wanted to create something both energetic and meditative," Lomotor explains. "The bee's buzzing provided a fascinating starting point, and I had a lot of fun manipulating the sounds with distortion and delays to fit the overall vibe of the song."

Listen to "Bee in a Bag" below and find the new single on streaming platforms here.

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