June 2009
1 post
NOT DEAD
OK, my hugely extended break working on the “River Conga” project continues, but here’s something else!
Horizon
I took two little snippets from the song “Horizon” by Genesis (from Foxtrot). Looped the first one and then after a bit brought in another copy of the same track, slightly delayed to create a clean, decayless echo effect. Did that two more times so that...
May 2009
4 posts
Nothing today
Doesn’t bode well for the project to be fucking off on it already, I know, but I got nothin’. No excuses, I’m just a shitbag. I’ll try to make up for it tomorrow.
Worked for twenty-seven minutes today
River Conga step two
Like I said I would, I started by fiddling with the levels of the three “Conga” tracks, accentuating the dubby one and slightly suppressing the blippy one. It’s a subtle difference but I think an improvement. I tried selectively silencing some of the tracks at various points to emphasize the “River” sample but ended up not liking that so I undid...
A quick experiment gone fascinatingly wrong
Be My Husband by Nina Simone (in case you don’t know it)
Be My Husband (my experiment)
Nina Simone’s “Be My Husband” is one of those songs (like, for whatever reasons, The Knife’s “Kino”, The Fall’s “Barmy”, and, duh, The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”) that I keep returning to over and over,...
Worked for twenty minutes today
River Conga step one (working title)
First I recorded the sample of Roberta Flack’s “River”, taken from my scratchy copy of Killing Me Softly, then imported the track “Conga” from the Destroy All Monsters Gospel Crusade compilation and cut it down to the bit I wanted. Looped both of them—“River” a little awkwardly, which I’m fine with, and...