Post by GLRuk on May 10, 2010 21:15:35 GMT 1
Okay, this has been posted on my myspace blog for ages now, but seeing as how I rarely use it I thought I might as well put it up here:
Ok, seeing as how I'm on a massive myspace updating binge at the moment I might as well take a bit of time to give a bit more info on the songs on the music player. So, as of.. um - 5th November this is the tracklist with a little bit extra
1 - Brain Damaged [Psy Mix]
Ok, this song only really has its bare bones in this mix, which it says is in March 06, but I think I started it maybe as far back as Christmas in 05. Wasn't really sure what direction this was going in at first - could be any trancey sort of song, its quite open. It begins with a heartbeat and some slow strings, which for some reason took me ages to come up with cuz I kept making things at way too high a tempo [ too much coffee perhaps?] and a clip of John Simm from Human Traffic straight from his euphoria on the dance floor. The whole thing builds up and the heart-monitor slows right down and theres so much anticipation, but naturally I got total writers block and it was at this point that I got completely stuck for ages. Meanwhile - I was working on this other track which had quite a psy beat to it using a Beavis and Butthead clip with a real short Cypress Hill sample not really going anywhere, just sort of looping a lot of stuff and for some reaon spending ages on the hi-hat. I've left a lot of gaps where other stuff could be put over it. As its quite short, I've found it sounds good just a couple of bars looped over another song shifting the loop maybe a bar at a time every couple of repetitions and it works quite well to build up to the "Do you have any TP..?" bit - which has a massive drop after it and a section long enough to loop for a while without getting too old. I just couldn't resist making something with Beavis and Butthead in it, they're so cool. Anyway, halfway through making that I realised the whole 'brain damage' 'insane in the membrane' thing kinda connected so I put them together and it... kinda connected well - so I left it like that.With a fairly skilled DJ using this track - probably not me - it could sound really really good quite a good bridge between two sections of a set maybe... If anyone wants to use it go ahead, just put my name on the tracklist like. Safe...
2 - Mortal Kombat - Choose Your Destiny II [SegaMix]
Initially this started out as me fucking about trying to learn some MIDI sequencer programme and ended up as me trying to recreate from scratch the Mortal Kombat theme tune - which was quite fun, but eventually I realised I could only really go so far with MIDI as far as making it sound more produced, so I whacked it all into Kristal and mastered it with a WAV drum kit and maybe some delay effects... a bit of flanging, a few samples - et voila. Topped it all off with the Sega intro at the beginning. I mean come on! It couldn't have started any other way really...
The original Encounter the Ultimate Mortal Kombat track [for comparison]
3 - Star Wars IV - A New Hope [Feat. MC Jawa and Ben Kenobi]
This is a bit of a strange one really - basically I was quite mashed and I was watching Empire and the idea struck me to remix the whole Star Wars story [thats three films] into like a couple of fifteen minute tracks comprised solely of original sound fx from the Star Wars movies - which sounded so cool at first - until I had to sit down and go through Star Wars recording like... three or four different sound fx every few seconds... that sucked ass... and is probably the reason why I didn't get much further than Mos Eisley really... Right - now for what will probably seem like the really nerdy bit - It follows chronologically, so it opens with the blasters of the Stormtroopers invading Princess Leia's ship, then the droids on Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi shows up, he wants Luke to learn about the force. Blatantly had to use the bit that Family Guy used - I think it was in their film - about the Sand People. Anyway, that gives way to the bit I like the best but never really finished, which is MC Jawa - for those of you that remember Star Wars, Jawas were the little Droid dealin' dudes with glowing eyes and red outfits kinda like the thing from He-Man... anyway - I basically collected as many Jawa clips as I could so I could have a little Jawa freestyle before Hans Solo blasts Greedo in Figrin Dan's bar... but thats where it ended unfortunately - it got forgotten about and lost on my PC until I put it up on the musicplayer. The End.
4 - Internal Battle of Blood Without Honour [Kill Bill vs Immortal Technique]
This ones a lot more recent, I think I played it at the UWN ski and snowboard party in a similar form. Its one of the mixes I'd been working on when my PC gave up the ghost I believe. I'd been listening to quite a bit of Immortal Technnique one day and watched Kill Bill in the evening and the two kept getting stuck in my head, and I was like - Dude! How epic would that sound!? Brutal as fuck MCing from IT in "Internaly Bleeding" carried by the Kill Bill tune which, slowed down, has quite a long echoing boom to it went perfectly. There's quite a bit of wobble which is me trying to keep them in time on Virtual DJ and the EQs are pretty far from spot on. Its a pretty basic mix - quite lucky my mate wanted me to record it for him though, cause my PC crashed half an hour later. Nice 1 James lol.
1 - Brain Damaged [Psy Mix]
Ok, this song only really has its bare bones in this mix, which it says is in March 06, but I think I started it maybe as far back as Christmas in 05. Wasn't really sure what direction this was going in at first - could be any trancey sort of song, its quite open. It begins with a heartbeat and some slow strings, which for some reason took me ages to come up with cuz I kept making things at way too high a tempo [ too much coffee perhaps?] and a clip of John Simm from Human Traffic straight from his euphoria on the dance floor. The whole thing builds up and the heart-monitor slows right down and theres so much anticipation, but naturally I got total writers block and it was at this point that I got completely stuck for ages. Meanwhile - I was working on this other track which had quite a psy beat to it using a Beavis and Butthead clip with a real short Cypress Hill sample not really going anywhere, just sort of looping a lot of stuff and for some reaon spending ages on the hi-hat. I've left a lot of gaps where other stuff could be put over it. As its quite short, I've found it sounds good just a couple of bars looped over another song shifting the loop maybe a bar at a time every couple of repetitions and it works quite well to build up to the "Do you have any TP..?" bit - which has a massive drop after it and a section long enough to loop for a while without getting too old. I just couldn't resist making something with Beavis and Butthead in it, they're so cool. Anyway, halfway through making that I realised the whole 'brain damage' 'insane in the membrane' thing kinda connected so I put them together and it... kinda connected well - so I left it like that.With a fairly skilled DJ using this track - probably not me - it could sound really really good quite a good bridge between two sections of a set maybe... If anyone wants to use it go ahead, just put my name on the tracklist like. Safe...
2 - Mortal Kombat - Choose Your Destiny II [SegaMix]
Initially this started out as me fucking about trying to learn some MIDI sequencer programme and ended up as me trying to recreate from scratch the Mortal Kombat theme tune - which was quite fun, but eventually I realised I could only really go so far with MIDI as far as making it sound more produced, so I whacked it all into Kristal and mastered it with a WAV drum kit and maybe some delay effects... a bit of flanging, a few samples - et voila. Topped it all off with the Sega intro at the beginning. I mean come on! It couldn't have started any other way really...
The original Encounter the Ultimate Mortal Kombat track [for comparison]
3 - Star Wars IV - A New Hope [Feat. MC Jawa and Ben Kenobi]
This is a bit of a strange one really - basically I was quite mashed and I was watching Empire and the idea struck me to remix the whole Star Wars story [thats three films] into like a couple of fifteen minute tracks comprised solely of original sound fx from the Star Wars movies - which sounded so cool at first - until I had to sit down and go through Star Wars recording like... three or four different sound fx every few seconds... that sucked ass... and is probably the reason why I didn't get much further than Mos Eisley really... Right - now for what will probably seem like the really nerdy bit - It follows chronologically, so it opens with the blasters of the Stormtroopers invading Princess Leia's ship, then the droids on Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi shows up, he wants Luke to learn about the force. Blatantly had to use the bit that Family Guy used - I think it was in their film - about the Sand People. Anyway, that gives way to the bit I like the best but never really finished, which is MC Jawa - for those of you that remember Star Wars, Jawas were the little Droid dealin' dudes with glowing eyes and red outfits kinda like the thing from He-Man... anyway - I basically collected as many Jawa clips as I could so I could have a little Jawa freestyle before Hans Solo blasts Greedo in Figrin Dan's bar... but thats where it ended unfortunately - it got forgotten about and lost on my PC until I put it up on the musicplayer. The End.
4 - Internal Battle of Blood Without Honour [Kill Bill vs Immortal Technique]
This ones a lot more recent, I think I played it at the UWN ski and snowboard party in a similar form. Its one of the mixes I'd been working on when my PC gave up the ghost I believe. I'd been listening to quite a bit of Immortal Technnique one day and watched Kill Bill in the evening and the two kept getting stuck in my head, and I was like - Dude! How epic would that sound!? Brutal as fuck MCing from IT in "Internaly Bleeding" carried by the Kill Bill tune which, slowed down, has quite a long echoing boom to it went perfectly. There's quite a bit of wobble which is me trying to keep them in time on Virtual DJ and the EQs are pretty far from spot on. Its a pretty basic mix - quite lucky my mate wanted me to record it for him though, cause my PC crashed half an hour later. Nice 1 James lol.
