Summer is Here:
I have collated weeks 27 to 39 of my weeklybeats music along with a few extras into a bandcamp album you can listen to it below or feel free to pay what you like for it and download the whole thing.
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TOTW: Young Fathers_ Low
Repeat Listening of the Young Farthers album has opened up my appreciation for it.
Low demonstrates their unique mix of lyrics and production to create something that manages to reference many genre of music, but also stand out from the crowd of a lot of music this year:
Weekly Beats 45: (Sparks To The Moon)
This week’s track was made around a busy weekend of drinking and eating next to bonfires. I started the week on the OP1, designing a collection of drum patterns at 130bpm. The samples were then added to ableton live where I used them as the building blocks of the track adding instrumentation from software by Ableton, Izotope and Native Instruments:
TOTW: Anna Calvi_Suddenly
I’ve been trying to catch up with allot of music recently and with the mercury music prize awards finishing last week i thought it would be a perfect time to revisit the albums from their shortlist and listen to the ones i hadn’t heard yet.
Anna Calvi’s album One Breath was one I had missed untill now and I’m throughly impressed by the whole thing. The arrangements included within it’s 11 tracks are wonderful. instrumentation is always additive to the experience without ever feeling over produced especially in the string sections which manage to provide some sweet contrast to some of the albums harder elements without feeling tacked on as they do in many alt-rock/indy albums.
Suddenly is the starting track and kicks the whole thing off with a beautiful use of dynamics and attention to detail that is seen throughout:
WeeklyBeats 44 (55Cs)
All instrumentation for this track and drums were made on the OP1 and imported into ableton live for mixing and processing.
I had some more time to work on the arrangement in ableton which includend some more work glitching up the drums adding effects, panning, compression and EQ to the mix:
Weekly Beats 43 (Pius)
I’ve managed to do it yet again and forget to update my site about my weekly beats project. I will be putting them up throughout this week again to catch up.
On Week 43 I was doing a lot of travelling and didn’t have a lot of time in front of a computer let alone my studio. So instead I decided to do the whole track inside the OP1. It started with the Organ sound and its chord structure and I slowly layered other instrumentation on top to create a self-reflective and sombre track I hope you enjoy it:
TOTW: Bing And Ruth_ The Towns We Love Is Our Town
As you may be aware I’m a huge fan of anything Piano, I’m also a fan of ambient music. So mixing those two together will always get me exited.
Tomorrow Was The Golden Age is a new album by Bing and Ruth and manages to do just that so find yourself a quiet hour, sit back, put on some headphones and immerse yourself in the beautiful world of stretched out classical instrumentation and wide ambiences:
TOTW: Boreland_phillipa’s secret
I have been Listening to Boreland for a while now, they have always impressed me with their sound design and lush use of synths with a dark lining.
Over this year they have released two albums under the name OMAR and the final track from the first of the two entitled Philipa’s Secret stands out as one of the best. The rich vocal pad sounds and arpeggiated synth lines are right up my street and it manages to do them whilst still holding the albums overall darker themes.
Weekly Beats 42 (Moth On A Train)
This Track track it’s made up of two parts. A mix of both the OP1 and a Nintendo 3DS. The first Two minutes focus mostly on OP1 samples and then after the two-minute mark a more freeform and alternative sound comes out of the use of the M01 software for the 3DS.
Weekly Beats 41 (41 Weeks, 2 Cuts, 7 Stitches)
I picked up the Korg DSN-12 piece of software for Nintendo this week and decided to make a track using the software. All sounds are from the DSN-12 exported into ableton live for mixing together.
It’s amazing the amount of textures you can now get from musical equipment that is available on devices so portable.