Making a sond every week for a whole year ...

Weeklybeats 2018

Well, I don't know if I must feel proud or embarrased about this one. I think it's kinda fun but pretty weird, and as usual I would have loved to add some more melodies to it, because it was basically born as a ProTracker exercised that was then moved to FastTracker (running on DOSBox within Retropie on a Raspberry Pi!)...

The cuts were added last minute using a lot of pitched down "atmospheric" noise effects of cristals and glass items. Original samples were taken from the "Chaos" part of the classic Budbrain megademo, back from the Amiga days (in case anyone remembers).

Cooked over about 7 hours prior to the Weeklybeats deadline. I spent most of the time restoring some "bright and life" to those original 8 bit samples, and I wonder if I should use clean synths instead of this sonic overequalized mess smile

I was aiming to the excellent Grillo/Ecso type of sound but ended like this, so go figure...

Hope you find it kinda funny

Weeklybeats 2018 week 7

Weird kid lookin' at cha

Well, first of all, this hasn't any "tumbao" feeling at all, I'm afraid, but just 10 minutes before the deadline I couldn't came with a better title. Not honoring the afrocuban rhythmical tradition, I'm afraid, thouht I think the swing is kinda neat.

I just came off-duty yesterday, and after attending some family matters, almost zero time for music this week, so I tossed this really quick one less than three hours before the deadline. Pretty repetitive I know, it's just a sort of "long bassline" but... maybe adding some melodies here and there it could become something.

Weeklybeats 2018 week 6

Tumbao

This week the weather has increased my workload a lot, so less time to make music. Also, I started some sort of "spring cleaning" since I had to change some cabinets... therefore even less time. I was working on some ambient guitar and some other beat oriented stuff, but then the bad weather came along again, and ...

The snowstorm made me spent my Sunday in a hotel, waiting to get back on the road. I hadn't any of my regular computers on me so I cooked this little synth jam on Ableton in slightly more than one hour using three simple analog instances and some delays. Extremely simple and short, I know... I was about to give up, but guessed it is what is is. I guess I must continue my planned project this week, then.

Sometimes life gives you a night in a random hotel dinning with strangers, with snowflakes softly hitting the windows smile

Weeklybeats 2018 week 5

Pearl dust

This week I worked on a different project, even on a future video for a track. However, I had to work on different other things, my own Linux Server included, so around Friday I started looking around my old Reason projects.

I know, I know smile It's quite monotone and really sparse. I had not enough time and the melodic ideas I have went nowhere, so I prefered this minimal glitchy hip hoppy jam to a rather annoying bassline I kept almost until the end "bacause it was on the original track" from almost twelve years ago.

Maybe with some work, it could become something more than a sleepy background music. Hope you find it relaxing, at least.

Weeklybeats 2018 week 9

Encoded affection

Just  a remaster of an old forgotten 2001 Impulse Tracker file I found ...

Weeklybeats 2018 week 27

Caves of Minim

Long time ago I started tweaking sounds with my computer and became addicted to the art of sampling. I try to tell small stories with my music, so if images appear in your head when my sound comes out of the speakers, my job is accomplished. 
Thanks for listening. Please let me hear your stories too! 
And, by the way, I believe in sharing, so all my songs are under the Creative Commons licence. Collaborations and remixing are encouraged. 


Encoded affection

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