Comments on: Your Turn

Your Turn

spiderskull — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:02:50 -0800

A breakbeat/big beat spy song -- one part Propellerheads ripoff, one part Space Ghost nonsense.

Obviously, this only fits the "spy" part of the challenge, seeing as I didn't use the provided lyric and quite fancy this style of music.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:50:14 -0800

Fun! Big beat is fun, and there ain't no denying it.

Which reminds me, what are folks like the Chemical Brothers and Fat Boy Slim up to lately? Anything?

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:39:58 -0800

That is a ton of fun. Just what I needed this morning. I'm a bit too busy at the moment for it to be my turn, though.

By: arcanecrowbar

arcanecrowbar — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:34:14 -0800

This is sick! (in a good way). I'm curious about the origin of this beat - did you program it note by note, or sample it from somewhere?

By: danb

danb — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:38:16 -0800

Fun indeed. Great beat, and nice job with the filters on that bass part.

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:12:39 -0800

Thanks folks, glad you enjoyed it! It was as fun to make as I hope it is to listen to.

arcanecrowbar -- I used Reason, so the main drums are hand programmed in the Redrum machine (and then laid out onto the sequencer track). There's a drum loop (Dr. Rex -> filtered, widened a bit, and with a slightly higher pitch) overlaying that to fill in the gaps and add a bit more natural groove to the sound. You can hear it during the bridges where the up-front drums stop.

flapjax -- who knows.. I know that the Crystal Method still mixes in LA for some radio show. I haven't really listened to this genre in a long time, so I'll defer to Wikipedia.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:41:16 -0800

Yep, good stuff, spiderskull. What part is the Propellerheads ripofff?

and flapjax, last I heard about Fat Boy Slim I heard it from some friends who he met in Belize. There were talks that they would do something together (and it sounded really interesting) but then Andy Palacio died, and I haven't heard anything about it. Hopefully he will still remix some of Andy's music.

By: god particle

god particle — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:51:03 -0800

Tight beat, I really like it.

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:50:41 -0800

Yep, good stuff, spiderskull. What part is the Propellerheads ripofff?

Just the whole feel of it. The drums, the way they're mapped out onto effects, the bassline, etc.