Started out this one with the spooky mimicking octaves at the beginning, enjoyed how alien that sounded.

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This one had momentum early in the week but seems to have petered out in the engineering phase. My initial goal was to do a drum machine plus 303 thing. It gestated with the 909 kit in Maschine. Those loops were exported into Logic. I found a 303 preset in Analog Lab that I started building around. A few shitty sounds and one nice vocal later and here we are.

The track title is related to the vocal. It was sourced from a song a couple of old friends made back in the mid 2000s when they roomed together in Buffalo. I hadn't ever gotten around to trying to remix their song, but the vocal lined right up for this project.

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i cannot say more than i have said. but i'll get there one day

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This was a jam session preformed live into the MPC arranger using Waldorf Protein and an ASM Hydrasynth. After sitting down to work on a different track, I started messing around with the Protein and came across this sweet arpeggiated line that just screamed for me to tweak to taste! and tweak I did ;). The Hydrasynth was no different, found a preset that complimented what I was trying to do and edited it accordingly. This is definitely a track I will expand on much more later. (It normally takes me weeks to complete a track, I am trial and error based not theory based, so coming up with more than just loops is a challenge. But, forcing myself to just get things done in a week is actually pretty helpful in learning a new creative process.)

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Put on your costume and join in the festivities of Carnaval!

Every year in the south of the Netherlands, people dress up in all sorts of costumes and celebrate Carnaval. They drink (lots) and dance to this very idiomatic variety of polka music. It kinda resembles Germany's Oktoberfest, but not fully.

I've been thinking of writing a Carnaval's tune for a couple of years. I also found the idea of getting an M8, but then loading it up with oversaturated brass samples immensely funny, so...here we are!

Got sick during the week though, so I couldn't spend as much time on this as I wanted to.

Still, hope you enjoy! If you're ever in the Netherlands in February, do join the party!

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I decided to branch out on my normal stretching technique by incorporating elements of the Berlin School of electronic ambient music.

I started by creating a MIDI track, that I then stretched in Reason. I added a couple of layers of synths, string to go for a more "String Machine" sound.

I then took the bed into Reason, where I added additional motifs. After arranging and adding some mixing, I EQ'd the tracks. I finished with some master effects and mastering.

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All sounds from the second 20 minutes of the Night of the Living Dead, when Ben and Barbra have a few moments to pause and take stock after the initial attack. This one is mostly ambient and reflective.

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170/85 bpm weather alert recorded in Chile on the m8

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DNB type beat

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So last week i was watching one of Gregory Scott's talk on music production and mixing and he mentioned something that hit home and got stuck in my head. I don't remembre exactly the contexte of the talk but i think it had to do with using references or ways to refresh your ears when mixing to gain a better perspective.

The thing that struck a chord for me was the end of one of his sentences: '' ...otherwise you'll end up with a cartoonish version of what you're trying to achieve''.

The word cartoonish is probably what best describes the feeling I've had towards my music forever. I think it's part of the learning process when you try to grasp the myriads of technics needed to make electronic music. It's particularly hard to convay emotions with intent and not lose control or focus by fiddling to much with audio processing or by pilling up sounds upon sounds believing that it will make your song sound more intricate or interesting, which in turn yields more mud and confusion than anything.

The more i dig in music production, the more i realise that even complex ideas has to be presented as simply and directly as possible. It's a tough concept to grasp when the memories i have of my favorite music is super detailed and mesmerizing. But that's one of the problems, when i write music I often rely on vague memories of certain music style or songs which is how i think I end up with music that end up like a caricature of what I was going for.

In any case, the more i train my ears, listen to music intently and keep reference tracks close by when making music, the more i can see when i'm overdoing things...or do I? Haha!

Anyways, got back into Future Garage for this one.

The track was done in ableton. Sequencing, mixing and mastering.

Thanks for giving it a whirl! Cheers!

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