drums? mostly electronic,, but there's a loop from my stash that's all room mics on a delay and through flanging, EQ, bandpass filtering, dirty compression etc that's live playing and I used that to set the swing for all the drums on the track..., but the bass and such is programmed with alternate swing, leading 16th notes instead of lagging, though most of tis in 8ths
there's a huge amount of processed DR55 kick and highoassed drumulator kick in here too... my 1st two drum machines still tickle me 20 odd years later... both of those machines have really lame/dated kick sounds on their own, but used together they are very interesting... the great thing about the old analog roland machines is if you lock in a 4 on the floor every kick will record a little different and when you loops that you automatically get some 'live' variation but with that 808 kinda tone... the emu is obviously lofi samples, like a poor man's linndrum and the sounds are really mid 80s studio sounds with gated reverb built in and everything and a real lack of dance-music thump whereas all the dr55 has is throbbing low end, no attack at all even when you treat it like an 808 kick... you get the idea, serious nerd stuff here! Its just really fun to use the 55 as a trigger for the emu and loop up the results instead of pasting samples... why have the same kick as everyone else doing dance oriented stuff?
I am flattered that you have no idea what's live playing and what's sequenced.... tis so mixed for ever instrument
and all the hand percussion is live played by yours truly and looped, but its heavily treated with filters, ring mod, pitch shift, etc
my methods are hard to explain, like the whole drum bus is distorted to high heaven and compressed like hell but in parallel... tel_nobody said ithe drums sounded too polite last week so I pumped the stereo mix out into some effects pedals and then back in through a compression and folded it back at a low sample rate with the clean version 50/50I know a lot of tricks, listen to my whole soundcloud and learn
and yes, tis a 1st draft, I need to get the transitions smoother and do some level adjust, riding the faders but pre vocal I don't wanna do too much
this is based on that WORK IT animated gif, the lyrics are like: work it, push it, work it harder etc etc
I literally 'wrote' this to the sequncer/DAW, just flying by the seat of my pants a few bars at a time and not thinking... Zach and I have had this 10 minutes a day project going where you just print whatever your instincts tell you too and keep going... so far its been good to me whether the song is done or not
oh, and more importantly, thanks!
I was trying to homage garbage's 1st/2nd albums but also the who, sheep on drugs, chemlab and KMFDM as well as pastiche some very early house music from the music box era back when it hadn't veered off so far from stuff like frnakie goes to Hollywood... by the time I was hearing house music it was definitely the full on acid thing or it was slick r&b influenced stuff like 10city, all the new wave was gone
I did a lot of nutty stuff with this... misuse of outboard and plugins. Th whole thing was inspired by the lick played through an old frontman DIed from the speaker output inot a eureaka but I split it and blended some tempo synced moog filter back in via a sans amp... it was crazy, just making noise to inspire better music.... in the end I did more normal recording, like the straight les paul into traynor recording, but man, prior I was going nuts using all my toys on every source... guitar preamps coloring VSTi's etc just way out there
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