This collaboration started by me discovering the soundcloud page of a friend who had stayed over at my house for a Football match between schools. Maike Kusserow is a talented songwriter with a gifted voice that wrote this original piece a while back. Listening to only a Voice and a Guitar, I thought that It would be a great idea for us to collaborate and for me to elaborate on the project. So I contacted Maike and about a month later this result came along. I hope you like it!
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Maike Kusserow: https://soundcloud.com/maikevalentina

MaikeValentia & Decria - Soldier

Heavily inspired by EDM heavyweights Kill The Noise, DJ Snake and Skrillex. This track has about 6 different lead synths, 3 different bass channels, over 30 percussive instruments and over 70 channels dedicated to automation. All fit under 4 minutes. This is the largest track I have composed thus far. 

Produced by Alvaro Estrada
Original Artwork by Alvaro Estrada
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Mastered by Simon Hestermann
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Pandemonium

Produced by Alvaro Estrada
Artwork by Alvaro Estrada
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Mastered by Simon Hestermann
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Vocals: Biggie Smalls - Dead Wrong

My attempt at a more Dub feel to a song with certain aspects of Trip hop. I felt like the song needed a little more 'glue' to stick all the bits together. The old record effect and the vocals brought that to the table pretty well. Fooled around with panning a lot more than I thought. It came out much better than expected. 

Pay attention to how Biggie's voice changes pitch as it's echo - which is constantly panned to the opposite ear - stays the same pitch. Personally, I think that detail was the most interesting. It was also fun for me to figure out how to pitch bend through automation



Weak or Strong

Recorded: 25/July/2016 - 03:12 AM

The purpose of this mix is to portray a large variety of styles, BPM, and genres in a short amount of time whilst maintaining an authentic, non-rehearsed  'freestyle' mix.

Tracklist:
"I Got A Woman" - Ray Charles
"Gold Digger" - Kanye West
"Where The Hood At" - DMX
"Still D.R.E" - Dr. Dre (ft. Snoop Dogg)
"Lean On" - Major Lazor (ft. MØ)
"Bangarang" - Skrillex (ft. Sirah)
"Get Ugly" - Jason Derulo
"Can't Stop The Feeling" - Justin Timberlake
"Sexy Back" - Justin Timberlake
"Sax" - Fleur East
"Sugar" - Maroon 5
"Good Vibrations" - Marky Mark
"Easy Love" - Sigala
"Rock That Body" - Black Eyed Peas
"Intoxicated" - Martin Solveig (ft. GTA)
"#Selfie" - The Chainsmokers
"Destination Calabria" Alex Gaudino
"Turbulence" - Steve Aoki (ft. Lil' Jon)
"I Want You To Know" - Zedd (ft. Selena Gomez)
"Make It Bun Dem" - Skrillex (ft. Ziggy Marley)
"Wild For The Night" - Skrillex (ft. A$AP Rocky)
"Bad Girls" - M.I.A
"Double Bubble Trouble" - M.I.A
"Panda" - Desiigner
"Colemans Groove" - Flying Lotus (ft. Andreya Triana & Niki Randa)

Freestyle Mix #1

Inspired by TwentyOne Pilots & Flume
Produced by Decria
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Mastered by Simon Hestermann
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This is an experimental track I have had lying around for a while, it has been re-hashed and remixed over and over again and now I feel like I can't work on it any longer.

I hope you enjoy it! :)



Play Pretend (Twenty One Pilots Sample)

Sample from Rodrigo Amarante's Deezer Session

Produced by Decria
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It's been a while since I posted anything. This track was made close to midnight while coming down from a night out. I experimented a lot on this track, tried out unconventional approaches to making a simple techno beat as well as changing the role of the main synth. This is one of my first attempts at this genre of music.

A difficulty when facing samples from live recordings is the inconsistency in tempo. A strenuously large amount of time has to be spent cutting, dragging, deleting and even adding chunks of data in order for the sample to stay in time with the rest of the track. I discovered that a good way to do this is to make sure all cuts and edits are done during the downbeat, where the kicks are. This helps drown out the "choppiness" effect you get when making these kind of edits on samples of live recordings.

Je ne peux pas parler

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G4NG  [prod. Decria]

prod. decria
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Inspired by the likes of Portishead and Max Normal

bass, breaks & vox chops  [prod. Decria]

Inspired by Future

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SW3RVE | Future Type Beat [prod. Decria]

Inspired by the sounds of Afrobeats

prod. decria
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P0PPING | Mostack Type AFROBEAT [prod. Decria]

Inspired by Oldschool Hip-Hop King, Notorious B.I.G

prod. decria
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Samples: Rodrigo Amarante: "Deezer Session", The Notorious B.I.G: "Party & Bullshit"

I Was A Terror | Oldschool Beat [prod. Decria]

Distorted, Screwed & Bangin.

prod. decria
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XXX3 | Hype Instrumental [prod. Decria]

Made this in Uni a few years ago. Recorded, Mixed, Mastered & Remixed by me. 
Written by @Priestley and @Decria

Horizon (Decria Remix)

Live Performance of a track written by Volo Ego. 
Original Track: https://open.spotify.com/track/4J9qy1PsG3dGwHkYWC9UAL?si=PXKAURWuQ8CTGdSiUT5WCQ

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