Loosing the best track I've ever made was the best thing to happen to my music...

So my computer drowned and died, I lost all of my french house track I was making!

And with my new mac mini, I painstakingly tried to recreate it. I knew what songs influenced the original, I remembered the chord progressions I used, but it just sounded like arse. So I scrapped it. Well, I kept a few elements such as the kick drum, tempo and snare, even if they were eventually tweaked!

But I went the total opposite direction, Mr Oizo stylee! and this is the result:



I know it is possibly too similar to Mr Oizo, but who can blame me, his new stuff isn't the same (although it's still amazing, but that bass sound just isn't there!) with parallel tube distortion on the high-hats, a bass sound that opened a gate on a vinyl sample, analog gear everywhere, and a lead sound which I will simply just hint was made sampling a certain Trap music song... I've really expanded my experimentation!

Expect more of this from me, I really enjoy it! It's fun, it's not to be taken too seriously, yet still have that head-nod vibe to it and some proper interesting elements of sound.

I'm working on a samba/cowbell influenced mainstream bro-step track at the moment (don't worry it's better than it sounds) and I'm really going to get stuck in to this french house stuff!!

have a download of the track above, and yes, that is my face in the image...

Ooo New genre!...

So. Today I got some massive inspiration listening to ed. Rec. Volume 2, one of the great compilations from ed banger records. I really love the analogy saturated sounds and the amount of variation in every track.

Most people who know me well know I like nearly all music, just not house music. I know I'm one of few electronic music heads with this opinion but to me it can be too simple, too generic and there's just not much going on, no feeling. And I just find it really rare for a house tune to really take over my body (cliche I know) like a lot of music can.

However I was asked to do a Dj set over summer of which I was asked to play some French house. I Had no idea what makes house French! (wine and cheese perhaps?)

Over the past 6 months I've become thoroughly into the genre, falling in love with Mr oizo (flat beat being a favorite from when I still listened to music on a "my first walkman" cassette player!)

But today, whilst listening to some Sebastian and some krazy baldhead, it happened!

Expect it to be a while in the making, I know all the little interesting nuggets of audio will take some time!

Propellerhead's Reason has been the big powertool so far, it's a surprisingly good bit of software and has a great sound if you want some analog-esque grit, especially with the scream distortion plug in with tape saturation option! Plus Thor can be a seriously powerful engine and if you can get past the stigma around reason, you can really make some noise! Even if you do spend hours and hours with pretend wires it's worth it :)

Within logic, I made some cool glitch sounds with  the idm kit preset (sorry it just worked so well) with my beloved turnado plugin I won from sugarbytes. It's amazing at just mashing up beats to whole new levels!

Anyway there's big promise for this track, and if it goes well, then other tracks too! I'm hoping to get to use some analog gear at Ssr such as a few tasty bits of tube gear and maybe analog tape! I just want to make it growl!

If you want to know the kind of sound I'm on about, definitely check out Mr oizo and other artists from ed banger. And if anyone knows of any other artists or labels with that same gritty sound let me know!