Classectronic
By RawTicks on February 21, 2014 10:41 pm
I had so much fun with this one.
When I started making electronic music several years ago, I was deep into drum'n'bass, breakcore and that kind of stuff, which is more easily done in software. I was mainly using Reason at the time. Then someday I switched to hardware, and never really made drum'n'bass anymore (and almost never finished a track since TBH). But last december I bought Live and decided I'd like to have some fun making a drum'n'bass track, like back in the days.
So I was working on this track during the holidays, while trying to learn Live, which I had for about two weeks. When I learned about weekly beats, it was about two days before the week 01 upload time limit and I wasn't confident enough to finish my d'n'b track in time, so I took some sounds out of it and made a quick track for week 01 (Film Noir).
I decided to finish that d'n'b track this week. Since I had maybe 75% of the composition done, I had more time to work on the arrangement, explore FX and work on the mix. There are some processed x0xb0x patterns in there, a couple of sliced breaks, synths, and orchestral sounds, the last two of which were taken in Live library. I think I landed the mix right (sidechain compression, why did I wait so long before learning properly about it?) and am quite happy with the results.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!
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