Fantastic World

So this I'm actually pretty proud of. It's inspired by the Gorillaz album Demon Days. I've got a set of instrumentals from that album and listening to them a bunch inspired this. The tracks are full of reggae, hip-hop and cheapo synth sounds. Good stuff.

I created the tracks in Reason. Exported each track individually as a wav and dropped those into L8 for more processing. I layered in a little guitar, too. But I think I've got another bad cord so my sound levels aren't exactly right. But it just adds a little bit more texture to the song. The bridge is more of an instrumental weirdness, freakout kind of thing. So there's no real strong musical idea other than using the reverse cymbal thing to get back into the body of the song.

The cool thing that I've learned that I've been putting into use is parallel drum compression. I kind of fake it a little though. So if I've got a drum track, I eq it and compress it a little bit but then I copy the file onto another track. On that second track I squash it with a compressor: quick attack, long release, 20:1 compression and then drop the level of the track. It ends up sending, if not big, then full.

Let me know what you think.







http://www.divshare.com/download/2146777-601

Ride With Me

Done in Logic 8.

http://www.divshare.com/download/2146832-23e

A Massive Attack of Portishead

So the idea for this came from the book Reason Projects (by Hollin Jones). In the book, he goes through a bunch modern genres -- electronica, hip-hop, drums and bass -- and explains how to put a song together in that genre.

This particular example was inspired by the trip hop section. Pretty cool.

http://www.divshare.com/download/1893771-4e3

Check it out now

http://www.divshare.com/download/1876505-d06

Open this link and then on the right side of the page there's a section where you can download original.

That should work. Worked for me.

Rock on people!

Now We're Getting Somewhere

Pretty cool sounding track. Guitars came out sounding really good. It doesn't really go anywhere at this point - it was created with a TV spot in mind - and if I use it, I'd probably add a little more stuff to it.