chris wicks wrote:
quoted 6 lines A few days ago, Jon Drukman posted this URL in response to the tracks
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> A few days ago, Jon Drukman posted this URL in response to the tracks
> at www.m-nus.com (which weren't that great, imho... not bad, but not
> great): http://sticky.bud.com/mo1.mp3... downloaded the track, and
> it's fucking great... can I get any more info on this? Who's it by,
> what's the name of the track, etc? Thanks!
it's by me, it doesn't have a name yet because it's just a backing track
that i'm gonna get mohammed to rap on (hence the working title: mo1) it
is kinda formless and aimless because i was just throwing the sounds
together for mohammed to get a feel. presumably when we put the vocals
in there will be a more definite structure. i'll also probably do an
instrumental mix.
[tying back into the "how do you make music" thread... i wasn't sure i
was going to mention all this but i thought someone might find it
interesting. i know rob williams will. hi buddy!]
the idea: we were hanging out at a show waiting to play and daum was
spinning Alexander's Dark Band (that j. saul kane project i mentioned a
little while back). i said "i'd like to hear more rappers use backing
tracks like this." mohammed said "i'd be up for that" so i was
inspired.
the production:
the drum loop is my buddy tim soete. i recorded an hour of him drumming
and have been using the tape quite a bit. since my music is pretty
drum-loop-oriented i think it's cool to have my own custom loops. i
used the sonic decimator in hyperprism to give it that old skool emax
12-bit sampling quality, then i used L1 to fatten it up a bit, then i
put it into the sampler, adding a pinch of k2000 waveshaper for extra
grit. it's compressed again at the mixer. you can't have too much
compression.
most of the drum hits are doubled - the kick with a tr909 kick that is
overdriven with the mixer's channel trim, the hats and snare with dr660
sounds (mixed low, just enough to give it a bit more presence). all the
random synth bits are the nord lead. the string stabs are from a henry
mancini record, off the audiomedia card into the pcm90 with a custom
room i designed. i also put the stabs into the k2000, transposed them
way down and used the amp ring mod to give them another pitch. they
form a pseudo-bassline that's in there every once in a while. the other
bassliney thing is a korg mono/poly sound that i sampled and transposed
down.
the mixer responds to midi so the snare dropping into the huge reverb is
actually sequenced (just bump the relevant controller # up and quickly
back down to zero.)
writing it up makes it seem a lot more complicated than it is when
you're actually doing it.
np: eric b & rakim - follow the leader (yeeahhh... kickin' it old school
style!)
Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com
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