Dust
By laguna on June 23, 2024 10:29 pm
Back in the mid 2000s, during a streak of quite dope spanish hip hop productions, I tried to find some MC to rhyme over my instrumentals. I wasn't really "into the scene", so I hardly ever knew anyone and, in the few times I stumbled into a kindred spirit, my take on hip hop seemed "too electronic" for them.
I've kept this one untouched for maybe sixteen to eighteen years, because I wrote a few verses emceeing myself, like for 8 bars. It's not that I'm ashamed of my rhymes, but since I was trying to do a superfast flow bouncing to the hihat of the song (which wasn-t particularly popular back then) I quickly ran out of words.
Maybe I had more sonic ideas than concrete things to say, so I soon abandon any attemps to find musical partners locally and retreat to my bedroom and the early Netlabel scene.
Yet sometimes I still wonder what could happen if I've met someone in my area with ears both in classic boombap and glitchy techno, not caring so much if I wear the correct brand of sneakers and expensive sweatshirts.
Some of you who listen to my tracks could maybe tell that I still love hip hop to this day. I think is my greatest influence. Yet, I feel old and alien to its world sometimes.
Anyway, this is my Ableton Live 10, 2024 take on that old beat. Some Roland CR78 samples played on a Roland MC303 groovebox, bounced maybe to a copy of Cubase I never fully understood, then bounced to a then-brand-new copy of Ableton Live 8.
Like a copy of a copy of a copy ...
Maybe I'm too melancholic tonight. It's 38 degrees Celsius here in Cordoba, in the south of Spain and work is nice but tiresome at this temperature.
How's your summer? (or winter, for all of you in the other half of this wonderful planet)
Hope you dig it. Take care and thanks for listening 
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