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This beat samples drums from Herbie and strings from Un Chien Andalou. I added some other noises and sounds. Hope you enjoy this beat!

A Milli Of The Near Future

Here is a mashup of Li'l Wayne - A Milli and Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet. This is a good example of playing a naturally slow a capella at double speed with a song at regular speed. In most cases the rhythm of the a capella won't match, since slower a capellas are usually performed loosely with more breathing room. Leave it to Weezy (the best rapper alive?) to hold it down on tracks he has never heard before. The Klaxons' song is actually a cover of a song by Grace. I decided to title it after the Klaxons' album, Myths Of The Near Future, since it seemed to work better than most permutations of A Milli and It's Not Over Yet. Try them yourself and you'll see what I mean. (It's Not A Milli Yet? WEAK!) Bon appétit.

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Just trying to see how full of drums I can make a song.  I used ableton's slice to midi function which is cool

This is something I had started a while but never finished.  I recently started working on it again, messing with a lot of effects and giving it more of a progression.  The drums are sampled from an "I Love You" recording session; they were recorded in a large living room with a four-track.  I beefed them up with an extra kick and clap.  The vocal clip is me.  The rest is synths, pretty much.  I used Reason v4, and this song gave me a good opportunity to play around with some of the programs many effects and devices and learn how to use them.  I automated a lot of nobs, and chained a lot of devices with the Combinator.  I played with the vocoder, and learned that you can do cool stuff by running non-verbal vocals into it.  I hope you enjoy.

 
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This is what the song made me think of: A lonely, dusty robot hears a signal from earth.  A human!  It replies, trying to imitate the sound.

That's just me, though - draw your own conclusions.

 

This was someone's high school project.

 

This one's cuter.  Too cute, maybe.

I've been feeling sick lately, which puts me in the mood for acoustic blues. Hence: hardtime. This is somewhat of a cover of Hard Time Killing Floor Blues by Skip James who wrote it in the early 30s when he moved from Mississippi to Chicago and discovered there weren't any jobs there either, or something like that.

The only reason squares like me have heard of this guy is because the Chris Thomas King cover of this same song was featured in the O Brother, Where Art Thou? sound track.

Mine is not the most accurate cover, but here it is anyway. Just me, mexican guitar, and a mic. One track.