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garam masala

By Jason Nijjer on November 10, 2024 5:51 am

This week brought back many memories of my childhood, all sounds used this week were sampled from my Dad's records from the 60's and 70's from India that he would play when I was a kid.  I didn't want to use any tabla's or dhol's so had to really search for some kick, snare and hihats to find in the records.  Time consuming to find the samples and then try and clean them up and fit together, but amazing how some of the songs I probably haven't heard in 40 years but they immediately brought back memories.

Hope everyone has a great week, kids are on fall break this week so heading to the mountains.  Special time of year, base of the mountain will go mountain biking, then head further up the mountain to go snowboarding the next day.

November 12, 2024 10:56 am

Q-Rosh

So nice! I think you found a treasure to sample of. I am looking forward to hear more of your 60-70ies Indian records. I only have a few persian LPs from my father, but I should check them out too.

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November 13, 2024 4:33 pm

jwh

this is so great, Jason. really nice work, and such amazing source material.
hope the time in the mountains is restorative for you and the fam

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November 13, 2024 10:37 pm

Tone Matrix

So cool that you were able to sample all those nostalgic records.  Love when the beat kicks in with the vocal melody.  I could hear MF Doom or Del on this smile  Hope the mountain trip is fun!

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Yesterday 4:44 am

neon liminal

This is another of those brilliant compositions that is so confident and self-aware of what it wants to be that it will just seamlessly melt into the background while I'm listening and just "be there" and I accept it for what it is and know what it's going to be and that.... that is a massive accomplishment. This is really stellar.

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