A Wonderful Place
By jemmons on June 5, 2022 2:13 pm
I decided it was finally time to get some loops from Splice and do some lofi hiphop on the 404. A problem quickly became apparent, though; hiphop beats feel a little thin. They are, by design, missing something — the rhymes overtop.
Never in 1,000 years am I fit for such a task, so I hit the public domains. I ended up on the NASA Audio Archive (where they keep public archives of, essentially, all space communications!) and imagined a traveller from the future telling us about the life he loved, but seemed unimaginably lonely to us.
I’ve gotten much better re: my unquantized drums, though I still keep the snares 100% locked to keep time. But the rest don’t feel too off too often. These are DMX hits courtesy of Samples from Mars (apropos).
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