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Goldhawk Productions

Here's the master of a tribal melodic track I decided to make. The female vocal was from a sample pack "Exotic Refreshment - Sofiya Nzau Voices From Miruri vol. 1" and the clip was called "Daci".

Miruri translates to Romania. Also looked up Daci on Wiki here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacians and it turns out that Dacia was a region inhabited by the Dacians in the north of the Danube (modern Romania). The kingdom of Dacia was the creation of Burebistas (c. 80-44 BCE). Many scholars have proposed an etymological link between the endonym of the Dacians and wolves. The Draco, a standard flown by the Dacians, also prominently featured a wolf head as you can see in the image. Liked the history behind the tribe, so decided to call the track "Dacians".

Really enjoyed making this track. Felt like all the stuff I've learnt over the year from my London AMP course, reading "The Secrets of Dance Music Production" by Attack Magazine and watching endless videos on Aulart and YouTube came together and I'm pretty happy with the result. Was also super fun using the Ableton Push; how sick is pitch bending synths with the slider and playing MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) sounds. Reckon this will be one of those tunes I come back to in the future to ramp up with new stuff I've learnt.

Anyways, enough of the monologue, hope you enjoy the track and if you have any feedback, do let me know.

Kind Regards,
Joe

Goldhawk - Dacians (Marksman MST)

So the intention with this track was to create a peak time heater, strongly influenced by one of my favourite record labels "Lost Miracle". The track gives me mystical, empowering vibes (most likely because it's in B flat minor) so I decided to call it Issara, which is my Thai middle name. It has lots of meanings which sync up with the feel of the track. You can have a read here if you wish suttacentral.net/define/issara?lang=en.

This was my first deep dive with the u-he Diva synth. What a beast. Most sounds in the track come from here with the rest coming from Ableton and Minimal Audio - Current synth. Found some excellent melodic padding/fillers on Loopcloud and some decent transitionary sounds in a Ghosthack sample pack. Mostly Ableton audio effects, with the gold coming from some excellent audio effect racks that I've discovered on "the journey".

Anyways, hope you guys dig it. Let me know what you think ;-p

Goldhawk - Issara (Marksman MST)

Hey guys this is Goldhawk here. The track I've chosen for the BMC show on the 21st May is my track called "Swooping". It seems to be my most popular one that I've uploaded to SoundCloud with around 1,500 views which is pretty good I guess.

So a little bit about the track. It was a fun exploration of "All The Samples From Mars" which is an amazing sample pack which contains samples from drum machines from decades gone by and is great value as well. And also the use of XLN Audio XO plugin which is an amazing tool for sound discovery. It has a colour coded map and as you drag your cursor through the map you can identify specific sounds that you're looking for and you can filter using different parameters. It's also an amazing drum sequencing tool. So this track brought those 2 things together in a really beautiful way.

What I like about this track is how I simplified things in comparison to previous tracks that I've done, to help with the mixdown and mastering. With this track it ended up being around 30 channels, whereas in previous ones I've produced they've had around 50 channels, which is painstaking in the mixdown as any producer will tell you. The reason for this is pretty simple. When you have less channels, there is less overlap in frequencies, which means each individual sound has more clarity and is positioned better in the mix. 

In terms of how I did this, it was predominantly by using more automation on the synths and also more audio effects throughout the track, particularly during transitions and breakdowns, in the drum, synth and atmosphere busses, rather than having to rely on new sounds to maintain listener engagement, fill the space and signal change in the track.

Other ways that really helped me simplify things down was by not having any vocals, not having a sub-bass layer which eats up a lot of the headroom and also utilising less loops. On the last point, I'm really happy that I played in 90% of the MIDI for both the drums and melodic elements, and only used a small handful of loops for the remaining 10% which you hear in the track. I think what that does is give the track a more authentic feeling, although the trade off is that it sounds a bit simple in some parts, but this will improve as my production skills level up. I'm happy overall considering I was only 1.5 years into my production journey when I made this track live.

In terms of the arrangement, this is a slightly longer track than your average at around 7 minutes, with an A-B-A-C-A arrangement, with a nice 1 minute intro and 2 minute outro, which really helps with DJ functionality and then there's a really beautiful 4 minutes of narrative in the middle.

A lot of different things that I learnt during my course at The London Academy of Music Production and through reading books and experimenting at home all came together in this track. 

I decided to call it "Swooping" as one of my favourite samples in the track, from the "Samples From Mars" collection, was a discovery called "Evil Butterflies", which really has this feeling of a bird fluttering and swooping downwards and descending and as my artist name is Goldhawk I felt it was quite a nice signature sound. 

So yeah, that's a little about the track. If you fancy giving it a spin, drop us a message any time @JDent2612 and I'm more than happy to send over the WAV file to you guys.

Hope you enjoy the listen and keep on raving. Peace out!

Goldhawk out! 🦅

Goldhawk - Swooping (Tear Of Joy MST)

"Into The Unknown" is a very real culmination of everything going on in my life. It's been a tough few months to say the least and I don't know what's coming next, but I continue to remain my happy and hopeful self and I guess I poured that sentiment and feeling into the track. Stay positive people...always. I feel like I'm getting closer to the sound that inspires me, and I hope it inspires you too. I think the track is something you'd want to close a set with. A nice warm hug to send people on their way. If you like what you're hearing, I have enabled downloads for a week, so get on it quickly. @tear-of-joy did a great job on the mastering as always. Much love to all those that are listening to this. Goldhawk out! 🦅

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Goldhawk - Into The Unknown (Tear Of Joy MST)

The Canary
Original by @parra_vie_music https://linktr.ee/parra_vie_music
From the Echo of Tenerife EP 
https://open.spotify.com/track/2TGSRW2uXBkcHWtPwSTcoB?si=ed8fa3d500b54eb8

Remix by Goldhawk @jdent2612 https://linktr.ee/goldhawk_dj
Mixed and mastered by @soundofaom linktr.ee/soundofaom

Parra Vie - The Canary (Goldhawk Remix) {Sound Of Aom Master}

Introducing Joe Dent aka Goldhawk! 🦅

Whilst Goldhawk has only flown onto the scene recently, he has been raving with us all for many years now. His love for electronic music is clear if you've ever chatted with him in person or listened to some of his DJ sets/radio shows.

Goldhawk has had a wild 3 years playing gigs in London:

Promoters: Usual Sundays, Giggles, Amitï, Danec & Friends, Grassroot Grooves, Usual Suspects, Raï Collective, Night Mayors, Organica, De La Casa, Patchouli Deep, Faded Society, HATS, Resolute, Pick & Mix, Freehouse, Farrago, Powder Room Presents, Electric Arches, Dark Out The Room

Venues: Electrowerkz, SubStation, Limehouse, B Club, Jago, Grow, Folklore, AAJA, Club Makossa, Kizuna, Four Quarters, Brixton Jamm, Leaf & Wild, Number 90, Hux, EartH Kitchen, Little Yellow Door, The 1 Bar, Peckham Riviera, Dabbers Social, Oslo, Dynasty, Mayan Bar in Datça, Turkey

Festivals: Camp Aram, Girlingman, Heartwood, Notsilly, Soul Revolution

Radio: Lola, Bloop, Voices, Chronicles with Cogu on DI.FM, Brixton Radio, BMC Radio

Alongside intimate festival style gatherings and never ending house/after parties.

Goldhawk is also a producer and is slowly building his own arsenal of records. These have been inspired by worldly sounds in predominantly organic/progressive house music that evoke feelings of wonder and mysticism. You might even hear one when the moment’s right ;-p

Goldhawk's favourite artists are Hernán Cattáneo, Sébastien Léger and Lee Burridge. His favourite record labels are Lost Miracle, All Day I Dream, Univack, Melody of the Soul, Lost & Found, TRYBESof, Stil vor Talent, Sol Selectas, Cafe De Anatolia, Madoras In Da House, MoBlack, Mango Alley and so many more.

Goldhawk takes his lifetime of experience on the dance floor into every set he curates and you'll certainly want to catch his vibe, so roll on through and let him take you away!