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Myopia Reversal

By miraclemiles on November 20, 2022 11:16 pm

Saved this project with working title of "Boom Bap Goals", since I was in the mood to make a boom bap beat this week. This is what came out though. It's maybe sort boom bap adjacent. The actual title was inspired by some feels that happened this weekend. I was grumpy and lashing out a bit. I think I was being myopic, being short-sighted, and thinking about my own bad mood in the moment and cursing the names of those who also had moods in my bubble. Later, thanks probably in part to some mind-altering substances, I reversed that myopic pity party and realized, as one does, that we're all in this together, so have some empathy already.
Before the final edit I listened to Steve Lacy's awesome album, and I feel like some of that lightly influenced the final edit here. The voice sounds (barely sound like voice) are from my first experiment with the vocoder on the Microfreak synth. Also inspired by this article on Ableton's site about George Fitzgerald and his processes. He likes to go grab things from other projects for inspiration, so I did some browsing in the projects, and found this whistling thing from a past jam, I think it was me, but not sure. I may not be that good. Also I started everything by playing live drums again, finding that much more fun than programming in, but turned to Midi and edited, changed sounds and stuff later.

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sorry about the bad mood bubble. I know how it goes. being human is hard. heart
nice happy melody though. you always turn lemons into lemonade.

Yes, i hear it: a veritable ‘whistly-boom-bap-adjacent’ sound big_smile
Seriously so inventive, goes so many intriguing places. Those sound like some good mind-altering substances, i want some! heart

Only stank face beats here
Bravo

It's easy to wallow in a bad mood sometimes when they hit, so good job on pulling yourself out of it.  Sometimes mind-altering substances are good for that sort of thing.  Seeing things from different perspectives and whatnot.  The beat  is cool and I really like the vocoder sound on this.


very delicious and colourful.

I don't even know what boom bap is, but the whistling is nice
- Ebrit

That vocoder is really epic, this gives the track a lot of character. It sounds like a singing robot, and sometimes a very verbose dolphin. That track is a trip, with its laid back atmosphere. We're on a caribbean beach, drinking a margherita along other robots. The whistle that you pulled from another track is also very cool, such an original idea.

Yes this is fantastic, boom bap’s distant relative telling him to chill out, don’t take things so seriously, nice find with the whistling, the beat is dope, I could listen to that outro on repeat.

license wrote:

sorry about the bad mood bubble. I know how it goes. being human is hard. <3
nice happy melody though. you always turn lemons into lemonade.


I like the bubble analogy for moods. Yeah, being human can be annoying smile, I do like making lemonade though! thanks!

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

Yes, i hear it: a veritable ‘whistly-boom-bap-adjacent’ sound big_smile
Seriously so inventive, goes so many intriguing places. Those sound like some good mind-altering substances, i want some! <3


Haha, yes that's the sound! Glad the places this went intrigued! I'd sure share the mind altering treats if I could!

gesceap wrote:

Only stank face beats here
Bravo


Ha, yes! Stank face for days! Thanks for checking it out!

CosmicCairns wrote:

It's easy to wallow in a bad mood sometimes when they hit, so good job on pulling yourself out of it.  Sometimes mind-altering substances are good for that sort of thing.  Seeing things from different perspectives and whatnot.  The beat  is cool and I really like the vocoder sound on this.

Thank you, yeah pulling out of the bad mood is the skill to learn, and the altered perspectives sure do help sometimes. Glad you dug this lil beat!

Q-Rosh wrote:


very delicious and colourful.

Hey hey thanks very much, I like those words for this!

Devieus wrote:

I don't even know what boom bap is, but the whistling is nice
- Ebrit

Boom bap is mostly 90's hip hop sound, kinda heavy hitting grooves. I'm thinking Nas Illmatic right now. Glad you liked the whistling. It's so nice we all have these little melodic instruments in our bodies, on our faces no less.

Kedbreak136 wrote:

That vocoder is really epic, this gives the track a lot of character. It sounds like a singing robot, and sometimes a very verbose dolphin. That track is a trip, with its laid back atmosphere. We're on a caribbean beach, drinking a margherita along other robots. The whistle that you pulled from another track is also very cool, such an original idea.

Hey thanks. Glad you liked the vocoder, kinda went off on that. Robots are cool, but I really like the idea of a verbose dolphin. I love that this took you to a warm beach. You have a good imagination. I think the yeah the robots are chilling on the beach, but since the robots and dolphins have become friends, the dolphins swim close to shore and sing a bit, then they all sing. I'm enjoying this story now, thanks!

Jason Nijjer wrote:

Yes this is fantastic, boom bap’s distant relative telling him to chill out, don’t take things so seriously, nice find with the whistling, the beat is dope, I could listen to that outro on repeat.

haha yes! Gotta just chill it back sometime, can't always just boom and bap so dang hard! Glad you liked the beat and whistling. As a booming and bapping beat master yourself, I know when you like a beat I must have something ok going smile, The outro yes! I may have to just flip that and do something longer. Cheers.

Excellent groove throughout.  Feeling the boom bap vibes for sure.  Some suhweet sounding percussive elements!  Nice work!

Tone Matrix wrote:

Excellent groove throughout.  Feeling the boom bap vibes for sure.  Some suhweet sounding percussive elements!  Nice work!

Thank you very much! Glad you feeling this percussive groove, that's my happy place!

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