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By laguna on March 22, 2020 11:56 pm
This one's weird, for sure. Finished (so to speak) 7 minutes before the deadline, and composed entirely on Sunday. I swear I was aiming to make some hip hop, inspired by the great work of Ecso, Grillo and Franky.
In particular, I read Ecso was getting most of his samples out of VCV Rack, so I tried to imitate him. 3 hours later I had just some bleeps and a basic drum break so boring and lame I didn't knew what to do.
I though about doing some polymetric rhythms with basic Ableton clips, like the ones the cool kids do with their Euclidean modules. Snares sidechaining the kick sidechaing the hihats, kicks envelopes filtering the break, kicks sidechaing the vocoder and the delay. The bass appears to do something because an arpeggiator is retriggering in triples, but its just 3 notes. Tried to glue all together...
Frankly, I don't have a clue what is this, but I guess is not a head-nodder.
I'm really trying not to abuse the delays and keep the mix somewhat clean, though I think this one's on the verge of chaos. So many jumps in the stereo field that my ears are completely tired, so I'm the worst judge right now.
No proper intro, just 2 bars of hihats and there goes the main mix. The bridge areas with the FM pad (a preset found less than 20 minutes before the deadline) are "left hanging" and it needs more variation. With more time, I maybe could smooth those transitions.
Anyway, maybe this sounds better tomorrow.
I wish you all are staying safe and healthy. I will go back on duty in 3 days, so a special shout to all working "in the streets". I wish you have the best seven days, no matter such special circumstances we're in.
Peace!!!
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