A while ago i grabbed a Novation Launchpad for my live sets and hoping to integrate it into the studio workflow. I’m not gonna do an in depth review, but it works as well as advertised, looks great, is fairly cheap and can be repurposed to do all sorts of other cool things in a pinch.
I’ll admit i’m not an ableton power user, especially in the studio, so the bundled stripped down edition is more than enough for my actual needs, though i may be tempted to upgrade in the future.
In the video i’ve just thrown a couple of loops from a piece i’m working on in the session view and noodled on. It’s loads of fun, and i’m quite happy with the tune as it is. It is bare bones and needs a lot more fleshing out and bells and whistles (well maybe not really bells and whistles, you know) but it bounces along pretty well. When i’m using samples i always try to pair recorded sounds with my own synth tones, and the marriage is always a difficult one, so to speak, especially when real brass is involved. Don’t know, i just feel this might wind up a real swell chilled out tune.
So, if you still haven’t grabbed it yet head over at www.homeworkrecords.net and get it now. For free. I listened to it all week and it’s really great, trust me. Unstable Compound takes Double Rare Tender firmly into dubstep territory, and i really dig the grunge treatment applied to the vocal samples, sounds grittier and neater than ever. Costa and Fulgeance go hard at it turning Be Aware and Brown Box into legit space funk bangers, much more danceable than the originals. Last but not least Railster nails a great rework of Can Never Be with sweet synths and a rolling drumbeat.
Couldn’t be happier with the results, really, this whole project makes me incredibly proud.
Tracklist, press release and download link after the jump Read more…
Gonna be out feb 15th on homework records
Let’s say i’m very very proud of how this turned out. The guys at homework did an excellent job roping in the talent for this, and i’ve been playing the tracks non stop for weeks now, yeah, they’re that great. But please listen for yourself in the promo video.
Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for the special year end mix episode of Bubblegum beats on spaceinvaderradio.com featuring lots more hiphop!
Here’s the playlist
Soul Litchfield – Throw Ups.mp3
Harmonic 313 f. Phat Kat & eLZhi – Battlestar
Closed Sessions featuring Amanda Diva – I Can See
Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
Foreign Beggars – Shake It feat. Noisia
Medeski Martin And Wood – Bloody Oil
Sade – Soldier Of Love
Reflection Eternal,Jay Electronica,J. Cole & Mos Def – Just Begun
Portformat – U Gotta Find (feat. Shuanise)
Basement Jaxx – Scars
Rox – My Baby Left Me
J*DaVeY – Get Together
Mos Def – Casa Bey
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco – I’m Beaming
Grillo – Brown Box (Fulgeance Interstella’Funk Remix)
Erykah Badu – Didn’t Cha Know (Biscope Boot Remix)
Welcome to the final post in the ‘amazing sound samples from the Emu SP1200 drum sampler’ series. This time there’s a drumkit (16 different one shot samples) and 8 drumloops in the pack. All the sounds come from an old session with a vintage sp unit, but they have been somewhat processed, and while they may be now sound a little bit crispier (especially in the high end) they still retain the crunch and the grime imparted by the hardware and the infamous sample transpose technique.
As usual the drumkit samples are in Battery, Kontakt, EXS24, Renoise .rnsi and of course straight .wav files format, while the loops are straight 44/16 .wav files.
If you’ve downloaded all the packs you should now have 5 drum kits and 16 beat loops, not too bad. If you feel like it, you can thank me with a paypal donation, that’d be great.
Finally out, 9 tracks, free download, get it here!
A bit of old school, a lot of visionary abstract instrumental hiphop, some dubstep references, a bunch of sweet melodic taste mixed with dusty sounds: this is the receipt of a great downbeat album like “Fireworks” and this is how Grillo kicks off his debut match with the Homework Records team!
Matteo shows how the new Italian abstract hiphop movement is active and fresh, winking to old school stuff and watching to contemporary instrumental tendencies at the same time.
“Fireworks” puts together influences by Prefuse 73’s melodic taste, powerful triumphal beat lines and a lot of attractive spoken quotes perfectly cut into the main rhythmic pattern.
Nine tracks that will easily and gently fall into your headphones!
A while ago i grabbed a Novation Launchpad for my live sets and hoping to integrate it into the studio workflow. I’m not gonna do an in depth review, but it works as well as advertised, looks great, is fairly cheap and can be repurposed to do all sorts of other cool things in a pinch.
