A simple loop I made to test out my 555 tone generator (based on one from Practical Electronics for inventors

(track is available downloadable, but it is just the .m4a I recorded with my iPhone)

Idea with Bleep Labs Bleep Drum and 555 tone generator, into Line 6 DL4 (recorded 2014 03 28)

Lyrics:

And uh.. 
They said, so, like have you met a hater? 
And I looked at them...and you know... 
And I thought what a beautiful thing... 
Maybe one day it'll be like that 
You know what I'm saying? 
Wow haters, they'll just read about them in the history books 

Last night, the dream came again 
The shard of a phantom limb 
Unable to grasp within 

How can you know 
What you've already lost? 
How can you recall 
A dream that punches the clock? 

I call out to the shadow's back 
But my words are the sharpest stones 
Falling in the lake 
With no waves 

How can you know 
What you've already lost? 
How can you recall 
A dream that punches the clock?

Tom Cruise / The Unrequited Dream

This is another Ableton Live track that I made when I was trying to play with small differences in pitch for multiple oscillators. I think this is probably the one that I am most proud of. 

The file for download is a .wav

(beat of the week no.-05, vol. minus one) Darksided Toy Piano

This is another one of the "warp" experiments in Ableton Live, one of the better ones. Not much else going on there. 

The file available for download is a .wav

(beat of the week no.-12, vol. minus one) Mysterious Steampunk Clock Vendor

This beat was when I had access to some really good piano VST, I believe it was The Grand, I could be wrong though. This was mainly born out of wanting to test that VST and trying to find a way to extend beats, which I probably got from listening to Peaches en Regalia (by Frank Zappa), many of the parts of that song are repeated but on different instruments. 

The beat you can download is a .wav

(beat of the week no.-15, vol. minus one) The Tickler Massaler

This is another of the "radiohead-y" guitar tracks. I can't remember if I liked how the drums sounded, but they are alright. I believe I was also playing with different "baritone"-esque guitar tunings at the time. 

You can download the .wav here, as always. 

(beat of the week no.-20, vol. minus one) Montage Mastering the Plasma Power

Ah troh-seht whah-zhej ee-woon-doo-zha-mah ah-yoo-ohb, ah-meh poh-koor ehn-doo nuhm-buhr-ah yoo-ohb ah troh-seht ah “hohb-ehr-ah troh-seht-ehn” “troh-seht ah hee-bohr-ah hohb-ehr-ah”, wha-zhej troh-seht ah-yoo-ohb ah zhu-tehk-uh, oo-nah yoo-ohb kay-lah ah troh-seht ah-wohzj fihg-ee lihg-eh ah-meh, nee-nah soo-koo slink-ehn. Doo oo-nah ah boo-roo-stehn ah ehshzj poo-chuh ah wihzj-kehn “cuh-chee ah-meh,” oo-nah nuh kuhn-tehk-uh doyzj nuhm-buhr-ah. Meh zhu-tehk-ah oo-vah ah yoo-ay. 
Doo-koo boo.

trohseht ah-nihm-behn

neev-ahn doo Spaundou

(oo-nah)

ah-koo ah-meh

kuhn-tehk-ah figgy

One of my favorite Grandaddy songs. Might go back and add some flourishes but I kind of like how spartan it is right now.

Hewlett's Daughter (Grandaddy Cover)

Hewlett's Daughter (Grandaddy Cover, v.2)

beat of the week no.017. Battle Squadron

Wanted to do some more guitar-centric beats this week, and work with that weird god-like voice sample I had last week. I like how it loops at different times depending on the pitch. Used the Harmonic Synthesizer in Guitar Rig to do that heavy bass sound in this. 

The title of this beat comes from the Sega Genesis game of the same name. Something about the voice sample I am using reminded me of the sounds used for one of the weapons in that game.

Every week I produce two short instrumental pieces of music, or beats. My intention is to eventually release all the stems and project files. 

(beat of the week no.017) Battle Squadron

The name of this beat comes from a purposeless mixing of the title of the game Saturday Night Slammasters…and just the word staycation. No real meaning there. Saturday Night Slammasters (if you haven’t heard of it, it is a Capcom wrestling-based fighting game, that features Mike Haggar, who you probably know from Final Fight) was always funny to me because of how thinly veiled the homoeroticism is, even in the title. It just sounds like a bunch of buff dudes in a scary basement getting oiled up and doing poppers. The Japanese version is even worse, it is called Muscle Bomber - The Body Explosion. I find stay-cation funny because when the economy was worse they kept floating this word around to make the economic collapse cute or something.
I put two funny things together.
The music just uses the vocal sample I’ve been using a lot recently. The only thing that may stand out is that I tried to make the reverb on the drums a little more nuanced to help the drums sound a bit more real. 
This beat was made with Ableton Live.

(beat of the week no.024) Saturday Night Stay-cation

Hello there! My name is Benjamin Santiago, I'm an artist originally from NY, currently living in MI pursuing my MFA. 

I sometimes record music, and release "beats" weekly. All my music is creative commons and free to use for backgrounds in videos or livestreams, etc. Attribution is greatly appreciated. Also I don't know if there is a rule in CC, but please don't use my music to torture people or dark stuff. 

If you enjoy the music please consider buying some of my music or a physical release, everything is pay as you wish though. 

If you want to see me work on these you can go to my twitch channel: 
http://www.twitch.tv/benjaminsantiago

I stream music production on Monday nights. 

BenjaminSantiago

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