also one of the tracks that totally opened my eyes to how spare you can get and still sound hella good was zebra katz’s + njena reddd foxxx ima read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag
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i generally try to work with 4 channels, at least to get to the point of a ‘demo’ where i’m happy with something. my interest in making music is definitely based around specific sounds and seeing what can be built from them, so it makes more sense for me to try and understand how much you can do with few parts.
this random track on a compilation built from just a couple of samples, drums and an m1 organ preset is like the most influential shit for me:
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re: overloading arrangements, stripped down makes up for itself very fucking quickly when played at club volumes. if you think your work is bare, try whacking a massive live venue impulse response verb over it and see if you still think it isn’t busy enough. salutary
i walk off dance floors if the dj’s set has too many complicated numbers in it
if i look at my hundreds of sketch/experiment projects in various daws in the last 20 years, very few of them have more than a handful of active tracks (processed heavily, but that’s another thing that spartan arrangement makes more viable)
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intensity is important.
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I might have taken the non-4-beat-phrase thing too far in this one because there were times where I didn’t really know where the “start” of the phrase was
trying to make the umvc3 mixup of techno here I guess
the track i always point to re: simplicity is jeff mills’s “changes of life”. the whole track is an overdriven 909, a piano loop, and a low pass filter, nothing else. it doesn’t make for the most compelling headphone listen but in the right set people will still lose their minds to it
i love breaking down these old chicago & detroit tracks and focusing on how little they were really working with as far as tracks go? “make your transition” is absolutely legendary & is like, 4-5 parts? drums, bass, a guitar(?) loop, a brass loop, and that gorgeous gorgeous vocal
hell, paul johnson doesn’t even need a fucking bassline. this track hits harder than anything and is just drums + vox
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yeah downloading a grip of dance mania numbers and trying to emulate them could be highly instructional and fun
i mean it worked for daft punk
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https://mega.nz/file/yUQlGaTa#rhwxnccV8XPWikTJeNfL3jhYhxIksg1nb_VJSshjxGY
i don’t have the fucking internet right now so it was comically difficult to get this track shared to y’all. dunno if the link even works but i have faith
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Received, loud and clear. Cool fuckin track. Sorry your internet situation sucks right now.
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Another bandcamp Friday thing. This one is way more music-y then the more experimental stuff I’ve been doing https://danagosto.bandcamp.com/album/mid-late
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neat! i like it, very VVVVVV vibe
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oops forgot to post my weeklybeat
added the tb-03 into the setup to see what I could do with it - turns out it takes up a lot of room! so I had to tone down what I was doing on the m8 by a lot. so much so that I ended up creating an entirely new project from the one I was originally starting on
will I put a clap on the 3? find out next time on dragonball z
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My first attempt a track using a Sega Genesis tracker – not sure if it plays to the strength of the system but also I was very happy to be able to have instruments that weren’t just flat square and triangle waves (sorry pico8).
Had a lot of fun making it!
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yay deflemask \o/
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this is cooooool
wonder if you can generate an .md or similar file so i could play it back on real hardware somehow using my everdrive
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just tried and it’s capable of generating a .gen file that i was able to play in an emulator! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vy9ZL7tXHUZK-Lc-igYSEbVxiAyW4Frj/view?usp=sharing
see what you can do with it!
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