Here's a little something I've been tinkering with for a while for an upcoming laptop battle which likely is not to happen (I hope to be proved wrong).
I wrote most of this at work using a little Korg Nanokey and Live 8. I have tried a few various wrestlers over it but nothing has quite fit yet ("I Fight For A Living" is getting done this year, I hope). So tonight I finally picked a random structure from the session view and laid down one of those broken leads that gets really skunk when you lay on the modulation.
Most of the instruments are Live 8 instruments, except for the lead synth, which is Korg's delicious MS-20 emulation. No words, just some quasi-funk.
Hi everyone, I got logic for my birthday from my boyfriend and decided to use it to make this week's hellagem. He also got a mac recently for himself, which is the computer that logic is on, which makes this also the first song I've ever posted from a mac :) So to make this, I just played around with logic's instruments for "electronic" genre, and in the end it reminds me a lot of "Inner City Pressure" from Flight of the Concords (which I think is a poke at West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys?) anyway hope you enjoy!
So here's what it is. I had a song that was all about how you can't be a person that you're not trying to be, in fact that's the chorus right there, it was about hard work and that kind of thing plus my own psychological issues because why stop that right? And I had this song and it sort of worked and I sort of put this bass line on it but only halfway. Halfway because halfway through I got these awful blisters from trying to play that bass so hard.
That bummed me out and I panicked, yelling at Rob over e-mail. Maybe Rob could rescue the bass part.
The next day, worrying about this, I worried that Rob would not record that bass line because I was being presumptuous or any number of reasons. And on top of that there was a whole situation where my two best of comrades at work were axed unexpectedly, leaving me adrift with naught but my time management devices and work to keep me company. One of these dudes is a friend from earlier times so the whole thing was a big thing. So I just recorded another song because it happened and I have no regrets.
Later on Rob lets me know that in fact the bass had been recorded as well as drums and why not just come on over and record anyway? The answer is that I don't know, I don't know.Â
Today I added some parts to the song I recorded after worrying about whether I'd have a bass line for the song that didn't really work without one. That song was a little quieter, the other one requires a big rude guitar solo and I can't get loud because of the next door dude's sleeping kid on thursdays.
This song is sort of inspired by my dude who is confrontational. But not completely, because I don't know how to write about things that exist.
Summer Sketch
I got my computer back last week, and I was busy until recently. I made this today over the course of an hour and a half. Nothing special going on here, just a few synths, a simple drum beat, and my guitar.
I know it's sort of becoming a catch phrase for most posts, but I'll just go ahead and say it: I'm going to work on this more when I get the time.
What I will add to this song:
1. Sicker drums
2. Vocals
3. More parts
4. Sweet transitions
Other projects that are in the queue in no particular order:
1. Rick Ross - Hustlin' Remix
2. Battlestar Galactica rap beat
3. Cursive mashup
4. Rap verse for F-ing Danger Super Side Show
I was listening to "Dutty Wine" by Tony Matterhorn got inspired to do a dance hall beat in a similar style. I did the whole thing on Ableton Live 7. I want to record some vocals on this sometime, but I need to write lyrics. Enjoy!
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