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#038 One Night In Africa
The soundtrack in this week's episode is called One Night In Africa. It’s a really chilled and lofi electronic deep house music track in the style of Black Coffee or Bonobo, with a few African twists. The instrumentation includes a dance beat, heavy percussion and African drums and the unique sound of Tim Exile’s Flesh by Native Instruments. It often gets used as a soundtrack to accompany timelapse video imagery of landscapes and the night sky. It’s suitable as an intro theme tune for podcasts about electronic music production, coding, and as a soundtrack for fictional stories set in cities in the 2010s.
IN THIS EPISODE
* Deep house is way more lofi than EDM and requires a darker tone when EQing
* Hand claps and West African drums accompany deep house house beats very well
* Some big South African deep house DJs: Godfathers of Deep House, Black Coffee, Da Capo
* Using a 9-bar phrase (instead of the usual 8/16-bar phrases) creates more variety and listenability
DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK
* Download https://gumroad.com/l/XNZMG
* Use this music in your podcast, audio drama or (non-commercial) video
* Quick search my entire library of soundtracks by keyword at https://johnbartmann.com/music
SOUNDS & DEVICES USED
* Internal white noise from my sound card
* Ice water being sloshed around and sampled
* Flesh https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/flesh/
* West Africa Discovery Series https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/world/west-africa/
* Ableton Collision ‘Beautiful Deep House Keys’ patch (free DL https://gum.co/KLNkN)
ABOUT THIS SHOW
How I Make Music is a show for music producers, podcasters and storytellers to better understand how digital-era composers make their music. Hey, I'm John Bartmann and I’m from Cape Town, South Africa. I write music and offer my own perspective on how to make it. My soundtracks, moods and themes have been used in commercial film, TV and radio, and also in plenty of non-commercial videos, podcasts and audio dramas. Each week, I write, record and release a new soundtrack. In this podcast, I deconstruct these original soundtracks one by one, sharing the separate musical parts, decisions and stories behind how each complete tune was made. Why? To help you better understand how to make, select and use production music that grips your audience.
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The soundtrack in this week's episode is called One Night In Africa. It’s a really chilled and lofi electronic deep house music track in the style of Black Coffee or Bonobo, with a few African twists. The instrumentation includes a dance beat, heavy percussion and African drums and the unique sound of Tim Exile’s Flesh by Native Instruments. It often gets used as a soundtrack to accompany timelapse video imagery of landscapes and the night sky. It’s suitable as an intro theme tune for podcasts about electronic music production, coding, and as a soundtrack for fictional stories set in cities in the 2010s.
IN THIS EPISODE
* Deep house is way more lofi than EDM and requires a darker tone when EQing
* Hand claps and West African drums accompany deep house house beats very well
* Some big South African deep house DJs: Godfathers of Deep House, Black Coffee, Da Capo
* Using a 9-bar phrase (instead of the usual 8/16-bar phrases) creates more variety and listenability
DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK
* Download https://gumroad.com/l/XNZMG
* Use this music in your podcast, audio drama or (non-commercial) video
* Quick search my entire library of soundtracks by keyword at https://johnbartmann.com/music
SOUNDS & DEVICES USED
* Internal white noise from my sound card
* Ice water being sloshed around and sampled
* Flesh https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/flesh/
* West Africa Discovery Series https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/world/west-africa/
* Ableton Collision ‘Beautiful Deep House Keys’ patch (free DL https://gum.co/KLNkN)
ABOUT THIS SHOW
How I Make Music is a show for music producers, podcasters and storytellers to better understand how digital-era composers make their music. Hey, I'm John Bartmann and I’m from Cape Town, South Africa. I write music and offer my own perspective on how to make it. My soundtracks, moods and themes have been used in commercial film, TV and radio, and also in plenty of non-commercial videos, podcasts and audio dramas. Each week, I write, record and release a new soundtrack. In this podcast, I deconstruct these original soundtracks one by one, sharing the separate musical parts, decisions and stories behind how each complete tune was made. Why? To help you better understand how to make, select and use production music that grips your audience.
SUBSCRIBE
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
YouTube
RSS
Stitcher
TuneIn
CONTACT
https://twitter.com/johnisthemusic
https://johnbartmann.com/contact