IdleRich
IdleRich
In the "Tune of the day (redux)" the other day @WashYourHands posted this one
Which reminded me that, although an awful lot of UK garage sounds terrible to me, and worse than terrible, annoying, there is the odd bit like that one which has this real minimal, skeletal feel which strips out all the shit stuff and leaves you with this minimal chassis of brittle beats, bass and the occasional spiky bleep. A good example of what I'm talking about might be this one which weirdly I bought on twelve inch when it came out.
So thinking of the robot skeleton on which these tunes are made my mind instantly turned to the terminator stamping on a human skull at the start of Terminator 2, and from that to sci-fi in general. And basically I thought about how it might work (and it might be fun) to find garage stuff that builds sci-fi bleeps and bass and acid type noises on to that skeleton and then to see if I could mix it with the electro-acid-whatever stuff I play when I dj. I reckon that in Portugal almost all garage will be totally unknown and maybe with the huge basslines and bouncy energy it will add a new dimension and mash things up. Or maybe it won't. Either way will be fun to learn about this stuff which I always despised and looked down on and admit that in some ways parts of what I thought were, if looked at in a certain way, almost close to being something like a tiny bit not quite right.
I had a look through the dark garage thread on here and pissed around on youtube and... I guess I'm thinking of stuff like this, from a minute in the sound palette feels very familiar. It's like someone took the stuff I play and "swung" the beats.
Same goes for this, heavy as fuck
This also cool, though, despite all the comments it doesn't sound that dark to me... also it doesn't sound that "swingy" to me, I dunno.
So more tips like this please. Thoughts on what I'm saying etc is there anyone famous who mixes electro and acid or whatever it is I play with garage and can you link me to sets doing that? Cheers all....
Which reminded me that, although an awful lot of UK garage sounds terrible to me, and worse than terrible, annoying, there is the odd bit like that one which has this real minimal, skeletal feel which strips out all the shit stuff and leaves you with this minimal chassis of brittle beats, bass and the occasional spiky bleep. A good example of what I'm talking about might be this one which weirdly I bought on twelve inch when it came out.
So thinking of the robot skeleton on which these tunes are made my mind instantly turned to the terminator stamping on a human skull at the start of Terminator 2, and from that to sci-fi in general. And basically I thought about how it might work (and it might be fun) to find garage stuff that builds sci-fi bleeps and bass and acid type noises on to that skeleton and then to see if I could mix it with the electro-acid-whatever stuff I play when I dj. I reckon that in Portugal almost all garage will be totally unknown and maybe with the huge basslines and bouncy energy it will add a new dimension and mash things up. Or maybe it won't. Either way will be fun to learn about this stuff which I always despised and looked down on and admit that in some ways parts of what I thought were, if looked at in a certain way, almost close to being something like a tiny bit not quite right.
I had a look through the dark garage thread on here and pissed around on youtube and... I guess I'm thinking of stuff like this, from a minute in the sound palette feels very familiar. It's like someone took the stuff I play and "swung" the beats.
Same goes for this, heavy as fuck
This also cool, though, despite all the comments it doesn't sound that dark to me... also it doesn't sound that "swingy" to me, I dunno.
So more tips like this please. Thoughts on what I'm saying etc is there anyone famous who mixes electro and acid or whatever it is I play with garage and can you link me to sets doing that? Cheers all....