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Yet another drum machine composition, inspired by the motorik beats of 1970s German bands like Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can, and Faust. Motorik means “motor skill” and refers to the driving, propulsive quality of this kind of beat, which was originally inspired by high-speed driving on the German Autobahn highway system.
This one has a kind of futuristic, upbeat quality that makes me think of driving the Pacific Coast Highway in the morning sun.
The MP3 is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0y3tijcd035
I’ve been looking at these music Things as sketches, which will provide ideas for future projects that I can map out and develop over time. As such, they are rough and full of glitches, but contain kernels of usable ideas. I hope you dig them.
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Thing-A-Day 11, posted 2 hours past deadline.
Another drum machine improvisation, recorded live with instruments dropped in and out in real time. This one’s a bit of an electro/IDM beat, with plenty of bass hits and classic 80s drum sounds (606, 808, etc.)
I call this one Subdividing Elements, and the MP3 is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7nzyibjdvwd
I plan to get back to the Chicago notebook this weekend, when I have fewer work things on my plate. Drop a line if you have any ideas for Things I might attempt as the month progresses.
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Playing around with beats again in the drum machine software. This one sounds better than the last couple of Thing-A-Day experiments since I found the source of the nagging background noise: I had the audio from my laptop’s built-in mic coming into Cool Edit as I recorded those pieces live. Fixed that and everything is now back to awesome.
I did this the same way, adding and subtracting instruments in real time. I need to teach myself how to set up patterns in Beatcraft, but for now I’ve been having fun just playing it as an instrument, so to speak.
This is kind of a slow old-school hip-hop beat, but with its own bleepy 2008 persepctive. Here’s the MP3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?c1johugt3wu
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A little electronic goof-off, late 80s Acid House style. Not really planning this for my Thing-A-Day…just playing around in Reason 3 with my mouse and no MIDI controller, adding drum machine layers, sweeping filters on the Subtractor synth, and recording live to Cool Edit Pro. Kinda meh, kinda meh.
Her’s the mp3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?d1mygwmjjb6
I’ll probably get back to the Chicago notebook tomorrow.