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back in the day (public blues)

By miraclemiles on September 1, 2024 9:29 pm

I went to a couple Thursday night blues jams in a little dive bar attached to a Chinese restaurant. Fun to get up and play some drums (on a decent house kit) with various people. Do some shufflin, some rocking, hold down those 12 bars. Blues and bluesy rock are not something I listen to often, but a good genre as a jumping off point for open jams in bars. We get some blues dancers moving around on the tiny dance floor, a good little friendly scene I'll probably return to for a little live playing fix.

So that little tidbit relates to this week's song in a way. This week's song samples the public domain song St. Louis Blues by TED LEWIS and HIS BAND. I started playing with this for the Disquiet Junto project last week, which I didn't finish. The prompt was to: "Break a public domain song into parts and reorganize them." After hearing so much blues lately I had been thinking about doing something like that. After some false starts trying to execute on my first plans, I finally decided I needed to get up a boogie, so I followed the muse and this is what came out. Took a break from making this to do some chores and words popped in my head so said them into the phone. Played with Ableton 12.1's new Auto Shift auto tune device to edit that voice recording, I'm liking it. I wonder what the Thursday night blues dancer's would think about this track?

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Wonderful how old material and new genres of music are woven into your portfolio. The samples remind me of old black and white movies, I used to watch every day on TV, when I was a child. Glad you are having fun in the nightlife.

It sounds like a nice meshing of "old timey" music with modern sensibilities.  I could almost see a rave breaking out at a speakeasy or something.

This was super fun to listen to! The groove fit well with the sample. I enjoyed listening to this :-)

woah, that was a trip! that bar sounds like a lot of fun

Q-Rosh wrote:

Wonderful how old material and new genres of music are woven into your portfolio. The samples remind me of old black and white movies, I used to watch every day on TV, when I was a child. Glad you are having fun in the nightlife.

Yes, the old movies and cartoons for sure, those are fun. Thanks for checking it out.

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

It sounds like a nice meshing of "old timey" music with modern sensibilities.  I could almost see a rave breaking out at a speakeasy or something.

Ha, yes thats what I was thinking! Fun to try and mash old and new sometimes.

noizfactory wrote:

This was super fun to listen to! The groove fit well with the sample. I enjoyed listening to this :-)

Thanks, glad you enjoyed!

jwh wrote:

woah, that was a trip! that bar sounds like a lot of fun

Glad to take ya on a little trip! Yes, so fun to go play drums with people in that easy setting actually, no moving gear around etc. Just show up have some fun. 

Awesome use of the samples and the combining of genres with the blues and house feel.  This would be awesome in a Tim Burton movie where there's a chaotic bar scene smile  The live playing sounds like a nice rush of adrenaline. 

That's some fantastic chopping! The overlapping grooves and rhythms drive the song so well it's really "make you dance whether you like it or not". I'm also a big fan of the arrangement/progression - keeps me guessing but keeps me groovin'

Oh man this is hip! That intro with the old sample is just perfect. And i hope how it goes into middle east type pretty soon. Jumping around, with a lot of originality, I would not expect anything less from a Miracle Miles track. I could listen to a whole album of this music. This is genius!

This song is quite a ride!

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