Another song, this time the acoustic guitar was recorded with those crappy mics you get with pcs and the drums come from a drum break lp. I’d like to redo this with a cleaner recording (and less error strewn, although thats character isnt it) and ideally a nice female vocal, although i dont have one of those so…
Heres another home/half baked experiment, same recipe as previous;
Chop finely one beautiful folk song, blend pieces till unrecognisable, sprinkle with beats and serve.
Heres a wee tune I was messing about with in Ableton Live, the folky sample was chopped up and rejigglified using the M-Audio Axiom controller, and the drums were programmed using the controller pads and then cleaned up (way out of time). Its not particularly good and the drums are pretty weak but it sounds ok for starters.
Another Dazed tune from the Legendary Lost Tapes of Muchalls (1996 - 1998), which is some rough and raw unadulterated funk (which apparently you can get a cream for these days):
If the sun ever rears its head again be be prepared with Mr Tricks Dang in Dub2; The Curse of the Black Ark mix.
“This is my personal selection of the finest Upsetter dubs from Lee Perry’s legendary time in his Black Ark studio. As a mix, this one is straight-up: 100% live off my 45s (replete with skips, crackles and more!), armed only with a reverb unit and a space echo to aid blends in true dancehall style.”
A remix of the 96 classic Gonch, this is a pants version just to emphasise how good you had it first time around. The track was created by flailing wildly at M-Audio Axiom 25 and then piping the resulting noise through a rhubarb patch. Some sci-fi movie directors from the 80s have travelled through time to enquire about using the futuristic sound in their films, flangers crossed!
From way, way back in ‘96 some rock n roll voodoo hoodoo from Dazed:
Amongst the many wonderful things you receive when you are thirty, one will be a Soundbite XL - Loop Sampler and it is indeed great. Just play the record and the sampler will pick up on the beats per minutes (if its unable to to this you can always tap it in) once you have the bpm you can tell it to record from a quater beat up to 32 beats. This a great fun and ‘perfect loops’ are only a few clicks away. Extended outros and intros for live mixes are easily done as well as creating loops to record on to pc. The recorded loops will also speed up or slow down when you are playing a new sample, so building layers of loops is easy too. The soundbite XL doesnt gave any long term memory so all loops are lost when the device is switched off, so you just have to remember from what record the sample came from after fannying about for a few hours.
Heres a quick demo of simple example with a looped sample and a beat:
Also a quick attempt at layering guitar sounds over a beat using audacity:
and whilst i’m waxing musically heres…
lone pigeon - concubine rice, daybre - air (feat doom), bibio - fi, felix la band - crooked breath, king biscuit time - all of black gold, kid koala - your mom’s favourite dj, pink floyd - pow r toc h , happy mondays - loose fit, gladys knight & the pips - part time love, elvis presley - gentle on my mind, tommy guerrero & gadget - mechanism, boards of canada - left side drive, clouddead , led zeppelin - What is and What Should Never Be
I love this tune, Scottish hip hop:
Cross a man called bobby with a corridor and you find yourself with one Bobby Corridor, who is well worth googling for mixes. But fear ye not a particular favourite mix of the moment ‘Melancholy Flowers’ is available here, the full track listing is :
