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the kids are all right

By eoe.vibin on July 3, 2022 11:54 pm

damn finally submitting a track again after 2-3 weeks off? the problem still lies with me taking 0 time during the week, and then rushing to fit everything in on a weekend. 2 weeks ago we had friends stay with us, and their 2 year old and 5 year old hung out with us. I tried making music to submit while they were helping with dinner, but they eventually found me and of course I can't say no. I showed them www.patatap.com and let them play around a bunch. I was never able to get time alone to work on it until bit by bit over the last 2 weeks. So i used their samples that I recorded over a mic from their sounds that came out of my laptop speaker (to noise it up). then turned into a lofi kinda thing. I played around with a bunch of percussive elements from those samples and got this. then did some ad libbing on top and pitched my voice down some (first track with my voice technically????).

also in the spirit of kids I tried to remember to:
- play
- not care about the output/perfectionism
- have fun

still got timezoned into rushing how to end/finish it, but it was fun overall, and i'm ready for the 2nd half of 2022!

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I’m forever amazed how many lessons I can learn from a kid at a drum machine. Like you say, “Play” and “have fun” are two big ones. And I hear them coming through loud and clear,  here!

jemmons wrote:

I’m forever amazed how many lessons I can learn from a kid at a drum machine. Like you say, “Play” and “have fun” are two big ones. And I hear them coming through loud and clear,  here!


Thanks for giving it a listen! I'm still struggling with mixing and mastering, so the 808 I layered into the sampled kick is completely lost, really missing out on the full low buzz I wanted with it. I tried going back into Ableton to see where I went wrong and can't find out what I did to lose that low end. I _did_ find that I left the "mono" utility on the master rack hahah - oh wells smile it was fun smile

super fun!!!  good reminder!

oh, the low end is not "all lost" in my opinion. Pretty nice experimental hip hop track. You captured well that playfulness spirit wink

The bouncy sound at the end is dope! Mind if I borrow it?

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