So, my "side" (if you can even call it that) of the Skullboy EP is pretty much done
It's five tracks long and might be my best work yet. I'm exploring a couple of new horizons on it-- one track is somewhere between ambient and synthpop, and two are my attempts at being Rich Vreeland-- and it's almost scratch plugin free. Yay for experimentation!
Also, my side was not supposed to have a title, that was actually just a thing I put on it for kicks. Lastly, you only need to list the feature credit for Eyedrop Bombs in the artist section, not both the artist and the song title.
Otherwise though it looks fine, though I am concerned about legal issues regarding my half of the cover. That's just a shirt I own.
I feel a bit weird getting full credit for basically just being sampled on one track, if perhaps extensively. I would be more comfortable if I actually contributed, like, a bonus track or summat.
Also it is technically a Silence and Secrecy track? But that's immaterial, really.
I've been working on a remix of some of Mo's material into a longish track, but I'm not sure how it would fit in here or if Mo wants to put that on something else with my other, earlier remix of his stuff.
I feel a bit weird getting full credit for basically just being sampled on one track, if perhaps extensively. I would be more comfortable if I actually contributed, like, a bonus track or summat.
"Eyedrop Bombs" is built around a chop of that keyboard stem you sent me, that's enough for me.
About as much as Otis Redding contributed to "OTIS", yknow.
I'm taking my first listen to how it all sounds together and holy crow I love it
the transition between Eyedrop Bombs and Rolling in the Sea is hella (as are the two tracks), and the sonic variety on display on Mo's side of things is just wicked impressive (especially on Brigade Days, which might be my favorite song on the album period)
I'm taking my first listen to how it all sounds together and holy crow I love it
the transition between Eyedrop Bombs and Rolling in the Sea is hella (as are the two tracks), and the sonic variety on display on Mo's side of things is just wicked impressive (especially on Brigade Days, which might be my favorite song on the album period)
as i may or may not have mentioned i had recently been making a good deal of music
unfortunately my headphones are dead, so music is generally on hold BUT i borrowed my sister's earbuds and made a wee loop just to give you all a taste of where i'm going music-wise at the moment
and as i mentioned i made it with shitty earbuds so sorry about garbage mixing
unfortunately my headphones are dead, so music is generally on hold BUT i borrowed my sister's earbuds and made a wee loop just to give you all a taste of where i'm going music-wise at the moment
I've got four songs in the pipeline with PYOPK and a couple of other Audiotoolers. The current plan's to release all of them together as an EP named w/e.
Slated to appear:
- a not quite big room electro track (with me as a featured guest for melodic contributions) - a hardcore DnB samplefest with a couple of synths too - an electrofunk track - and one other song I haven't really decided what to do with
also a solo track, maybe? The project's still developing so things might change.
So The Composers Desktop Project, which is a collection of Sound Transformation and editing software, is releasing their core software and documentation for free. There are still some additional software you have to purchase, but all the core stuff is completely free on their website, so if you're looking for some cool sound manipulation tools, it's worth looking into.
So The Composers Desktop Project, which is a collection of Sound Transformation and editing software, is releasing their core software and documentation for free. There are still some additional software you have to purchase, but all the core stuff is completely free on their website, so if you're looking for some cool sound manipulation tools, it's worth looking into.
Unfortunately, only the most recent version of the software seems to be available, which is too recent to be compatible with my hardware. If you could find me an earlier version, then I would be most appreciative.
So The Composers Desktop Project, which is a collection of Sound Transformation and editing software, is releasing their core software and documentation for free. There are still some additional software you have to purchase, but all the core stuff is completely free on their website, so if you're looking for some cool sound manipulation tools, it's worth looking into.
Unfortunately, only the most recent version of the software seems to be available, which is too recent to be compatible with my hardware. If you could find me an earlier version, then I would be most appreciative.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, but until the most recent update CDP was not free and it was this way when I first found out about it (which was sometime in 2011) and subsequent check-ins afterword, so I don't have access to previous versions. I'll look into things and see if I can find an older version for free for mac, but I doubt it's available.
Normally I hate this sort of thing, and may regret doing this by this time tomorrow, but I threw together a quick preview clip from the album, which is nearing completion. Fans of my last should listen to it.
it and "City of Z" are named after an interesting mystery, by the by. I have considered putting a text file up with the album download explaining all the references (there are a lot) but I feel like that'd be pretentious of me.
Also, I broke one of the cardinal rules of sampling and made it work. Suck it El-P!
I don't think there's like an actual canon of them but it's generally agreed upon that it's bad form to sample classical and I worked a Bach fugue into "Deadcamp Horse".
also my rather creepy hobby of setting up my laptop to field record in public places has proved lucrative so far, since samples from said recordings appear in "City of Z", "Book of Enoch", and one of the tracks off that Forest Rites EP I never put out.
the general consensus is that it's pretentious to do so.
Like all rules it's sort of made to be broken. You're also not "supposed to" sample stuff that's been worked over to death but J Dilla broke that rule all the time.
also you guys should reaaaally listen to that trailer. The new song I previewed in there is the one I'm most excited about so far (aside from "Under a Gibbous Moon", which was originally from that Forest Rites EP under a different title and kind of functions as the album's climactic moment).
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It's five tracks long and might be my best work yet. I'm exploring a couple of new horizons on it-- one track is somewhere between ambient and synthpop, and two are my attempts at being Rich Vreeland-- and it's almost scratch plugin free. Yay for experimentation!
im getting better at noise i guess
I know, I need to get new drums.
Also, my side was not supposed to have a title, that was actually just a thing I put on it for kicks. Lastly, you only need to list the feature credit for Eyedrop Bombs in the artist section, not both the artist and the song title.
Otherwise though it looks fine, though I am concerned about legal issues regarding my half of the cover. That's just a shirt I own.
About as much as Otis Redding contributed to "OTIS", yknow.
Skele21 by Skullboy Entertainment
unfortunately my headphones are dead, so music is generally on hold BUT i borrowed my sister's earbuds and made a wee loop just to give you all a taste of where i'm going music-wise at the moment
and as i mentioned i made it with shitty earbuds so sorry about garbage mixing
Slated to appear:
- a not quite big room electro track (with me as a featured guest for melodic contributions)
- a hardcore DnB samplefest with a couple of synths too
- an electrofunk track
- and one other song I haven't really decided what to do with
also a solo track, maybe? The project's still developing so things might change.
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Actual Download page: http://www.unstablesound.net/cdp.html
Free tutorials on working with CDP for new CDP users: http://www.composersdesktop.com/workshops.html
progress report
one, I will be folding the EP I did under the Forest Rites name into the Apartment album.
two, this:
it and "City of Z" are named after an interesting mystery, by the by. I have considered putting a text file up with the album download explaining all the references (there are a lot) but I feel like that'd be pretentious of me.
Also, I broke one of the cardinal rules of sampling and made it work. Suck it El-P!
Like all rules it's sort of made to be broken. You're also not "supposed to" sample stuff that's been worked over to death but J Dilla broke that rule all the time.
relevant
like I said this isn't an official canon it's just like an unspoken rule type thing.
at least I got something musically productive done today.
Aside from the possible insertion of "Mojave Music III" in here somewhere (I am considering holding off on it), you're looking at the final tracklist