It’s so easy for this kind of hyperactive percussion to lose its groove, but this keeps everything masterfully balanced. The fills know their place and never fight for the kick or snare keeping everything moving and making room for the really great sound design on those buzzy mid synths. The melody, too, feels just right. Trying to express a complicated melodic idea with 32nds bumping along in the background would have been a challenge, but this melody is just so chill and just moving along. And the time shifts at the beginning and end — I feel like I was bustling along in my busy day but turned and caught this at just the right time and it all came together, just for me, and it‘s made my day more hopeful. Really cool.

It’s so easy for this kind of hyperactive percussion to lose its groove, but this keeps everything masterfully balanced. The fills know their place and never fight for the kick or snare keeping everything moving and making room for the really great sound design on those buzzy mid synths. The melody, too, feels just right. Trying to express a complicated melodic idea with 32nds bumping along in the background would have been a challenge, but this melody is just so chill and just moving along. And the time shifts at the beginning and end — I feel like I was bustling along in my busy day but turned and caught this at just the right time and it all came together, just for me, and it‘s made my day more hopeful. Really cool.

this sounds like many joyful elves working away making cute humming noises

[img]http://acdn.architizer.com/media/1387466703496Silly-Symphony---Santas-Workshop5.gif[/img] this sounds like many joyful elves working away making cute humming noises

Glad it caught you I started out with just the breakbeats and the psytrance drums, and it felt a bit too loose, esp. since I recorded it without a metronome, so the slip-ups couldn’t be quantized, so I added the simpler patterns with the big Resonant language drums on top.

Glad it caught you I started out with just the breakbeats and the psytrance drums, and it felt a bit too loose, esp. since I recorded it without a metronome, so the slip-ups couldn’t be quantized, so I added the simpler patterns with the big Resonant language drums on top.

Hehe, yes, with the two middle elves there chopping up the breakbeats

[quote=jemmons]It’s so easy for this kind of hyperactive percussion to lose its groove, but this keeps everything masterfully balanced. The fills know their place and never fight for the kick or snare keeping everything moving and making room for the really great sound design on those buzzy mid synths. The melody, too, feels just right. Trying to express a complicated melodic idea with 32nds bumping along in the background would have been a challenge, but this melody is just so chill and just moving along. And the time shifts at the beginning and end — I feel like I was bustling along in my busy day but turned and caught this at just the right time and it all came together, just for me, and it‘s made my day more hopeful. Really cool.[/quote] Glad it caught you :) I started out with just the breakbeats and the psytrance drums, and it felt a bit too loose, esp. since I recorded it without a metronome, so the slip-ups couldn’t be quantized, so I added the simpler patterns with the big Resonant language drums on top. [quote=emily][img]http://acdn.architizer.com/media/1387466703496Silly-Symphony---Santas-Workshop5.gif[/img] this sounds like many joyful elves working away making cute humming noises[/quote] [quote=jemmons]It’s so easy for this kind of hyperactive percussion to lose its groove, but this keeps everything masterfully balanced. The fills know their place and never fight for the kick or snare keeping everything moving and making room for the really great sound design on those buzzy mid synths. The melody, too, feels just right. Trying to express a complicated melodic idea with 32nds bumping along in the background would have been a challenge, but this melody is just so chill and just moving along. And the time shifts at the beginning and end — I feel like I was bustling along in my busy day but turned and caught this at just the right time and it all came together, just for me, and it‘s made my day more hopeful. Really cool.[/quote] Glad it caught you :) I started out with just the breakbeats and the psytrance drums, and it felt a bit too loose, esp. since I recorded it without a metronome, so the slip-ups couldn’t be quantized, so I added the simpler patterns with the big Resonant language drums on top. Hehe, yes, with the two middle elves there chopping up the breakbeats :)

dude the drums go so dang hard its crazy, how do you do your drums?

dude the drums go so dang hard its crazy, how do you do your drums?

Thanks! Everything from ready-made loops to all by hand (cf. https://weeklybeats.com/trumbuthegn/music/from-the-view-of-the-queen-of-the-forest-floor), but most often the technique used here, which I think of as “live programming”; I record the midi at 1/4-1/16 speed with drum pads usually over an acoustic track which is later removed from the mix (so the quarter notes will become 16th notes for example). This even outs the human inaccuracies when sped up, but still does not sound like quantized programming (which I do not have the patience to do – I don’t like to look at screens if I can avoid it) and keep the groove of the “ghost track” albeit temporally transformed. My 1/1 playing does not suit electronic styles as I cannot do fast stuff like this with any precision. Soundwise, I like to use normal jungle breaks pitched down 4-7 semitones with saturation, EQ-ing out the high-end (to leave room for hats and caxixis/shakers etc.) and OTT with slow time, and to choose a few (2-6) chops and think of them more as a drumkit than trying to replay the original loop. To make every quarter-note pop, I usually put a psy-trance kick at it at relative low volume and use this as a subtle sidechain for the mastering compressor. Together with the galloping psytrance bassline and high-hats this marks every 16th note clearly and gives a solid base for the breaks and percussion to do polyrhythms and looser stuff. Ideally, I’d record the percussion live, but almost never find the time to, here I just used some Reason Dr. Octo Rex stock congas, bongos and caxixis.

[quote=pitatsu]dude the drums go so dang hard its crazy, how do you do your drums?[/quote] Thanks! Everything from ready-made loops to all by hand (cf. https://weeklybeats.com/trumbuthegn/music/from-the-view-of-the-queen-of-the-forest-floor), but most often the technique used here, which I think of as “live programming”; I record the midi at 1/4-1/16 speed with drum pads usually over an acoustic track which is later removed from the mix (so the quarter notes will become 16th notes for example). This even outs the human inaccuracies when sped up, but still does not sound like quantized programming (which I do not have the patience to do – I don’t like to look at screens if I can avoid it) and keep the groove of the “ghost track” albeit temporally transformed. My 1/1 playing does not suit electronic styles as I cannot do fast stuff like this with any precision. Soundwise, I like to use normal jungle breaks pitched down 4-7 semitones with saturation, EQ-ing out the high-end (to leave room for hats and caxixis/shakers etc.) and OTT with slow time, and to choose a few (2-6) chops and think of them more as a drumkit than trying to replay the original loop. To make every quarter-note pop, I usually put a psy-trance kick at it at relative low volume and use this as a subtle sidechain for the mastering compressor. Together with the galloping psytrance bassline and high-hats this marks every 16th note clearly and gives a solid base for the breaks and percussion to do polyrhythms and looser stuff. Ideally, I’d record the percussion live, but almost never find the time to, here I just used some Reason Dr. Octo Rex stock congas, bongos and caxixis.

Dig the playful almost 303 sounding melodies intertwining.  Drums are sounding tight and lots of fun filtering going on.  Nice one.

Dig the playful almost 303 sounding melodies intertwining. Drums are sounding tight and lots of fun filtering going on. Nice one.