This is the end... my only friend... the end...

To put it plainly: I was sexiled.

So I decided what better way to pass the time than to bust out my MIDI keyboard and finally do that final project!
Fortunately, by some means that I will not disclose over the Internet, I found myself with Reason, Recycle, Wave Editor, AND Logic Pro on my computer!

By finally opening the "Twiddly Bits MIDI drum loops library" that had been sitting on my desktop forever(!), I found an interesting "Earth Beat" and looped it in Wave Editor, attempting to use some "reverse" on it, though it may be only slightly noticeable, because it reminded me of a heartbeat, and what better way to make music than to emulate life? Then Recycle was only too kind to let me put it through the digital sampler RX-style!

So Logic sucks and giving you control of the synths, right?
so true.

so Bust out that REWIRE!
I was aiming for a house-esque tune with ambient qualities once again, which is why the bell-like sounds are looming in the background for most of the song.
And that lead line was meant to contrast the softer tones.
If you couldn't tell, the last two bits of the song are pretty much just me going crazy on all eight of the control knobs on the keyboard.

and here 'tis!

boomp3 wasn't working, so I had to go back and repost this blog entry with another means of arriving at my music.

Hence, the link before you:

http://www.purevolume.com/viper5390

The piece is called: Shaking Hands with a Closed Fist. (yes, inspired by none other than my fortune cookie last night).
The other pieces are just earlier work from the beginning of this semester, more or less.

ENJOY!

Chloe Rossetti's dnb mp3, "And the Bubble Soon Burst", begins as a work of sheer drumtastic genius.

Samples (Obama baby!) are creatively used and intertwined with a dirty breakline to create nothing over than the beginnings of a one-track dance party - the song opens with an Obama quote, followed by Chloe's own voice in a British accent (a persona she has nicknamed 'Tina Trashbag' - nice), and then she drops a siick breakline, at around what I think is like 180, 190bpm - out of control!

The middle is...'interesting...there are some great buildups and breakdowns, and an interesting soundbyte on every beat ("1/we do not break 2/[BREAK] 3/our bonds 4/[BREAK]"), a classic trademark of a well-planned out dnb track. There are some problems, however, with some of the volume levels of Chloe's/Tina's vocal samples, as well as the other samples (which Chloe tells me she stole from another, well-known dnb track) - they are not blended well with the rest of the song, giving an undesired messiness and jarring effect.

The song gets super-exciting at the end, unfortunately almost too much so, where there is a large change of pace - a sort of climactic female vocal and padding, almost trancelike, followed by Tina saying "back to work", and then the breakline kicks back in again, althought the break at this point goes out of synch. (This may be an example of where mixing through headphones will sometimes compromise a song when listened through speakers, but I can't be sure...)

The ending is messy - an Obama quote, followed by another dnb sample, but it doesn't quite fit together.

Overall, however, this is a good debut into nasty b rhymes - I'm looking forward to seeing what Chloe does for her final project - word.

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So here 'tis.

Decided I could go two ways:

up the tempo to 160 and call it "Drum and Bass"

or

down the tempo to 90 and call it "Trip Hop"





Suffice it to say, I went with choice A.
A lil' bit of Steve Reich influence for all a y'all.

Alright, we're learning about sampling a lot, right?
Well, I'd like you to hear perhaps the MOST sampled drum beat of all time.
It's called the Amen Break.

It's only six seconds.

But at the dawn of the sampling era, it was perfect, because there is nothing going on but the drums for those six seconds of the song. No need to try and manipulate the recording or anything!

Now check this vid if you'd like some enlightenment.
And LISTEN everyday, because you'll probably hear it somewhere!

Here 'Tis

Check it, y'all. Hope you enjoy. It's a blend of House with Ambient influences on some melodies.

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Betta hit dat CLICK!

word.

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We Interrupt This Program!

So we all know that certain electronic songs achieve near omnipotence in today's media, especially if there's a catchy hook, no matter how damn annoying that hook may be (such as the sax line from Pit Bull's "Anthem"). However, we often forget about the comedic use for music, and www.ytmnd.com is there to help us remember. For instance, a "trend" developed on this comedy site a year or two ago, when a disturbing video arose on the Internet, showing two boys burning a cat to death. Quickly, parodies of the event developed, and people needed music to go along with this.

Coburn's "We Interrupt This Program" was only too happy to fill the need.

Although there are SEVERAL remixes of this dramatically epic techno song (check out these search results: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=we+interrupt+this+program&search_type=&aq=0&oq=we+interrupt+thi), all are very catchy and all sorts of them are used in the parody videos on that site. Simply search "NEDM" on www.ytmnd.com and prepare to be thoroughly entertained, with plenty of videos and photos set to the same infectiously melodic song.

Check that!