Posted on Tuesday, April 11 2006
Okay, this isn’t actually a song…more like an exercise. Frankly, I wanted to see how easy it would be to write a bleep-bloop song in 7 with good percussion work. It is incomplete in that I don’t feel like working on it anymore, so I suppose it’s as finished as it’s going to be. Maybe I should make a new category: abandoned. Seems if I don’t finish a song/creative thing in under 2 days, I never will (see also, my first mix and second ambient song, both of which coulda been hella dope). Anyway, I digress. I wanted to find realistic bass and drum sounds and throw some goofy shit on top of them. In that endeavor I think I have succeeded for the most part. It’s a stretch to find realistic-sounding instruments when working with a stock sampler and synth pack. Perhaps I should look beyond Reason…or perhaps I should just find a good pack of drum and instrument samples. I’d like to get into more musical music, that is, music with technical substance. I like traditional Theory, but I’d really like to break Theory and make something original that reflects me. Maybe I’d like to compose a whole collection of pieces along the same lines and compile an album that doesn’t sound like a mix of ripped-off genre samples, which is pretty much what I’ve got going now. Maybe I’d like to add some vocals? More digression! This track is more or less a baby step in that explorative direction…just seeing what I have to work with. I suppose there was a distant influence of Live Human in this little guy. I could emulate a whole lot worse, I suppose.