wAgAwAgA - Xanthan Gum Rot

i finally got round to recording some of my own drum loops. having borrowed my friends ride, crash and picallo snare ive spent the last 24 hours deafening myself recording every conceivable variation of tone, rhythm and kit combinations.

anyways, this is the tune that resulted.

congrats! not fond of the chord sequence but the transitions are excellent. reminds of photek with more variation.

  yan_g said:

congrats! not fond of the chord sequence but the transitions are excellent. reminds of photek with more variation.

cheers yan :)

Mmm nice and very funky. I agree that the chord sequence is perhaps a little dull but no fuck it I quite like it. This has the funk in Luke Vibert kinda way ... congrats. Definitely a keeper ... no question!! I think once you crack it and make some really killer funkage on top of your beats you'll be unstopable. More please!!! ;)

  Promo said:

Mmm nice and very funky. I agree that the chord sequence is perhaps a little dull but no fuck it I quite like it. This has the funk in Luke Vibert kinda way ... congrats. Definitely a keeper ... no question!! I think once you crack it and make some really killer funkage on top of your beats you'll be unstopable. More please!!! ;)

im still toying around with the track at the moment, adding little bits a pieces here and there to keep it interesting. the drums have been the main focus, so im gonna go back and take a look at chord a bit. try n spice em up a touch ;) maybe some piano...

30 secs in and i have no problem with these chords whatsoever

i think they provide a perfect matress for the drums which clearly are the centre of attention

well maybe they could be 1 louder

the bass is very deep and warm and lush as fuck

the piano at 2:11

this is a sample surely

please tell me you didnt play that or program it

my brain just came a litl bit at 2:27

how much of the drumming is played and how much is sequenced

because some of the fills and rolls seem like they're played live - particularly around 3:10 - 3:20

if that's played then your drumming skills are rudiculosely good

if it's sequenced then your programming skills are probably even better

excellent work

  LUDD said:

30 secs in and i have no problem with these chords whatsoever

i think they provide a perfect matress for the drums which clearly are the centre of attention

well maybe they could be 1 louder

the bass is very deep and warm and lush as fuck

the piano at 2:11

this is a sample surely

please tell me you didnt play that or program it

my brain just came a litl bit at 2:27

how much of the drumming is played and how much is sequenced

because some of the fills and rolls seem like they're played live - particularly around 3:10 - 3:20

if that's played then your drumming skills are rudiculosely good

if it's sequenced then your programming skills are probably even better

 

excellent work

thanks alot ludd

u hit the nail on the head about the chords. theyre the fluff to go with the beats, pretty much. all the piano samples are stuff i recorded myself.

the drums are all samples of me playing, the initial beats are largely unchanged, just tidied up where necessary. the later drum runs around 3min mark is all programmed stuff. sadly my drum skills arent up to heavily tripleted swung beats. the sequencer loves it tho ;)

beep

edit: i just listened back to the tune. the piano sample at 2.11 is me doing a 'jazz wobble' all over the keys. hehe

Cool. I'm a fan of the whole live-instruments-performed-and-later-tweaked approach. Very jazzy mix. If anything, maybe do something more with the intro.

I re-upped that Awakening track you wanted to hear to Megaupload.com:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TDIR1TKJ

I took it off the watmm server so that I could post a couple other songs.

great as always wAgA, i love your music =)