another one from the hiphop show

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:31 am

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I just had a test run on it, from individual sample making to putting it together and mixing it. I guess the workflow hasn't changed at all.. not much of a difference I can notice.

Anyway, here's another tune.. remember a while back I said I needed to start choppin things up? I remember it was hubird's tune or something.. well, I did it.

I tried to make it sound like I sampled bits and pieces of alot of things.. actually it's just the triton with different reverbs and eq.

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Post by **hubird** » Thu May 09, 2002 3:53 am

hey Ken, something is growing in your head.
I like this, good sound, ridm, voicings.
And no Fusion sauce, besides SFusionP

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu May 09, 2002 4:00 am

Yes Ken, you definately have style. Like that chopping in the intro, to announce the drums... just great!! This is wicked music man!

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Thu May 09, 2002 4:07 am

Yeah, I've got a bonsai growin' out of my head.

Ya know.. another thing I chopped up was the choreography.. you should see these guys do the dance! I introduced the idea of phrase chopping and re-phrasing (like in dnb) and the dancers are now going mad with it.. They're literally chopping up dance phrases and re-phrasing.. with reverses and jitters! It's like watching a video jitter. Hence this music. Funny how you can "translate" musical ideas to other mediums.

The "jitter" idea's been going around in dance for some time, but people don't usually take it so... literally. hehe. So the plan is to cause a jitter in the music everytime there is a jitter in the choreography. Problem is, if they jitter too much, they get overheated too fast.

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu May 09, 2002 4:18 am

Did you see Moby's clip from "Body Rock"? You could put some blowers on them

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Thu May 09, 2002 4:24 am

will check them out if I can.
Hey, by the way, did anyone notice the paper crunching sounds during the chorus (part with the cheesy high violins) It's just like an ambience thingy I added in.

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Thu May 09, 2002 4:30 am

Such a nice sound!

Variations on those 16th note gates at the end of the four-bar phrases would surely spice it up.

Me likes your stuff, Ken.

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Thu May 09, 2002 4:47 am

Not to be advertising stuff, but the machoman patch I made a while back, is proving to be more and more versatile as a drum processing machine.. Really, the drum sound here wasn't hard at all to achieve. Just pass it through machoman, fiddle with some knobs, and that's it. Check it out:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=15&4

I'm actually surprised I'm getting sound of this quality with what I made just for fun.. I guess no effort goes to waste huh?

The trick was to use a very short kick sample to use the attack of, and to trigger the self oscilateing filter. So the attack is a sample, causing better punch than a 808, but the sustain is a sin wave so it packs energy like a 808. Sort of a best of both ends deal.

Zombie Agent · Post by **Zombie Agent** » Thu May 09, 2002 5:15 pm

Hi Ken
I really like this track it's got a good feel and it's totally different from the other stuff of yours I've heard.
I think this is what electronic music and future sound is all about EXPERIMENTATION and fully utilsing the power of those little chip things. The brain thrives on the unexpected and the physically unplayable too.

Come to think of it, might have been my posting Stargazer(demo) that you listened to which was heavily chopped up?

Keep it coming. Great sound as usual, I'm jealous, wish I was a pro and could focus on my music properly.

cheers ZA

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Jun 14, 2002 10:33 am

Really creative Ken! Please, let me copy you a bit in this one. I like very much the chopping effects in here. Completely new to me cos I’ve never done this or thought about this cos of my style of music, but the forum is opening my mind more and more to other frontiers. You have just opened one today, cheers...

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Sat Jun 15, 2002 1:20 pm

yeah getting better and better bro. i especially like the japanese sounding flutes in the back... good mix with a hiphop song

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat Jun 15, 2002 9:19 pm

yeah, this tune does have something "different" about it. And I'm glad it's no accident either. Learnin' and experimenting is always great! Then, once in a little while, ya do something that you already know really well, and that really kicks too.

What a great cycle.

ontik · Post by **ontik** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:14 am

I really like the melodies in this and the groove is right there. I know you've heard some of my stuff before and you remember that I tend to like a bigger, bolder sound.

If I was to changed anything about this it would be to use a monster snare hit in place of what you have now. But that would just be my mix of it.

(Check my new one at : http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=17&0 )

Keep on keeping on.

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