A crusty new jungle track for ya.
Soundcloud link / Bandcamp link / Youtube
It’s a nudge towards the old days when crusty breaks and beats were kings and when the production was not über-polished. The vibe mattered.
Akai samplers doing the beats, Moog Minitaur doing the bass.
Inspired to a great extent by the Droppin Science label.
Contains samples from Bill Murray and Yona.
If it’s nice, give it a price.
If it’s not, well, then I suck.
Written, mixed and mastered by yours truly.
This one’s for Ableton heads…
I did a video that demonstrates how you can do dynamic EQing in Ableton Live 9 using Envelope Follower (part of Max4Live) to cut a specific area of sub off of the bassline every time the kick hits instead of compressing the whole signal as in regular sidechaining.
It often happens that the sounds we use in music contain a bit of useless noise that only fills up the bandwidth. Our ears get so used to hearing our songs, we may not hear these things while we’re mixing, so this is a good way of removing what’s unnecessary. We end up getting all kinds of small things with funny resonance in our mix, and Continue reading How to find unwanted/ringing frequencies in your mix and carve them out?
The kind fellas over at Reddit’s edmproduction forum suggested I’d do an AMA (ask me anything) session, and we did. A lot of music-production-related talk. Check it out.
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This time, instead of going for more contemporary material, the podcasts focuses on wicked drumworks in D&B. A lot of this stuff is old, and I wanted to include tunes from whom I consider to be among the masters of drumworks in D&B. Continue reading Breaks & Beats Podcast #10: ”Focus On Drums”
I added a bunch of my old vinyl releases as rips on my Bandcamp today.
Some of those releases are pretty hard to find, so getting a vinyl rip is the closest you may get to “the real thing”.
Peep them at https://fanu.bandcamp.com