Au Courant

Experimental electroclassical hip-hop track. First one to name the classical piece I lifted for my main brass sample gets a lollipop. (Hint, I play it in entirety in incredibly high-pitched, fast motion near the end of the track).

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posted by ageispolis (11 comments total)

coura-coura-coura-coura-coura courant

I'm listening to this for the fourth time in a row right now. I love it.

The super-abrupt ending feels a bit sore-thumbish. I suppose that might be different in the context of a mix, though.
posted by cortex at 3:16 PM on February 8, 2007

Electroclassical! Right on. I really like this.
posted by snsranch at 3:49 PM on February 8, 2007

Heap big fun! I'm with cortex, though, on the ending. Kinda needs an ending, no?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:58 AM on February 9, 2007

Thanks for the comments so far. As for the ending, it sounds abrubt on its own but segues quite nicely into a track of the same tempo that comes right after on the demo I'm putting together. If Mefi had a reupload option I'd put on a cleaner mix for this site. Oh well! Courant-courant!
posted by ageispolis at 11:33 AM on February 9, 2007

There is clearly no option but for you to upload the next track as well.
posted by cortex at 11:42 AM on February 9, 2007

you can also host the new version somewhere and paste the link in a comment here.
posted by micayetoca at 1:18 PM on February 9, 2007

This is exactly the kind of music I generally hate. But I enjoyed this one. Really, I did.

The ending is quiet jarring. I think it would be trivial to make another version that has the last 16 bars or so just repeat and trail out.

Thanks for the post.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:54 PM on February 11, 2007

FYI, the brass sample I lifted is from Uranus by Holst. The intro chord was cut and rolled into a melody. The entire piece is played high/fast near the end of the track as an homage.
posted by ageispolis at 1:05 PM on February 12, 2007

I hope you'll forgive me an irresistible "so you've been digging around in Uranus" riff, then.
posted by cortex at 1:12 PM on February 12, 2007

1812 Overture.
Email it to me. Very nice. Really like your stuff.
posted by sluglicker at 11:28 AM on March 20, 2007

Totally laughing at sluglicker's fail right now.
posted by tehloki at 2:12 AM on July 27