Because Of You - original track by SKender Makota
Artwork: Dorotea Hrenek www.doroteart.com
Version:2021 Fall
Recorded live to two, in Chicago, Fall 2021 at Skeyelab Bradley Place - operated by Eric Dahl - thanks for letting me add on your Moogs on top of mine!!
Skeyelab Sessions - Skender Makota Balkanimal.com
Dub 4/7 - Fourth version/mixdown/dub out of a series of 7 different versions of the same song.
The original, or 1/7 mix was one of the first songs I ever actually wrote/finished back in 2001 while studying Production/Engineering/Synthesis major and piano/bass as principal instruments at Berklee College of Music. I finished it using this new awesome thing called Reason/Rebirth - I finally realized that apart from Pro tools, reason was fix it all for me as I would not have to fight over studio time, deal with musicians issues, I could make songs right here in my Boston student closet/bedroom!
And I did, wrote many of the songs here back then, this End Of The World (Diluted Sky at the time) song being really if not the very first track ever... so it deserves a bit of a better presentation.
Therefore, I will soon follow with all of the other mixes, and upload an album of this one song, told in many different ways - from ambient, downtempo, to elektro, electronica, to deep house and house!
I will do the same for some other songs I wrote in that period and also have multiple mixes.
Today, I love playing an instrument or composing in other ways, mouse clicking was a curse I could not get passed, but I am still often using Reason to get the ideas moving, or add more old stuff in a new mix in Logic etc.
Using it back then in 2001 and onward as a scratch pad and basically in my mind already hearing what should be there once I reopen in Pro Tools/Logic and move on... a reminder of what should be where was precious, knowing full well that in order to get the big sound, I would need a bigger box than my G4 tower and ditch the headphones if I wanted to preserve my hearing!
:0 but that was fine with me, and I was hooked!
Of course, now I use everything but love analog Moog synths and Ableton as my second step tool, where live mixing and live PA is an experience in itself with endless possibilities of on the fly composing - still the easiest way to sync and devote to playing, not fiddling :)
With these mixes released in one album they will be representing my progress and sound over the years in one package, and this is exciting to me :).
Even the Live PA mixes from the Originals Series (about to released) all of the songs will be Released individually.
Hope you enjoy it, let me know if you like it and which version did you like the best!
