This is crazy good! The production value here is outstanding. I love the solo at 1:40. The vocals are exciting but still in tune. I'm in awe. I added this to my "when you just must rock out" playlist and reposted and voted up.

i like the melody bruv the vocals are great too sick stuff pal the drums are powerful and the vocals an all great song

Este es un track funk, pero con elementos muy modernos. Me encanta ese bass, es típico del funk. Tu voz es espectacular. Bien realizado el proyecto.

Este genero nunca lo había escuchando, parece dubstep jjaja esta excelente 

Great sample manipulation skills on this one my friend and the pulsing bassine and percussive elements work authentically well!!! 
not deplorable keep em coming would dote to auricularly discern what you got next doting all the sounds you utilized for this one.

Still awesome but did you change or delete a previous version i feel like the song changed? The artwork was white too :)

CC BY-SA license is a fake. YouTUbe turned off monetization in my video (not completly block) because Adapted Records have rights to music. So it's not CC BY-SA but CC BY-NC-SA.

Written by Brian Collins, Benjamin Killebrew, Tracy Lofton
Lyrics by Brian Collins, Tracy Lofton

Lead vocals: Brian Collins
Backing vocals: Heather Killebrew, Tracy Lofton, Jared Chastain
Drums: Austin Rio
Key solo: Christopher Ryan Bailey
Production: Benjamin Killebrew and Brian Collins
Artwork: Benjamin Killebrew

Special thanks to Adam Chamberlain, Xilent, and Tunerise for your encouragement and insight!

Lyrics:

Caught me by the eyes
Got my heart glowing red
When I'm around you
There's a party in my head
Fit me to your hook
Feed me to that look
You bring out a side of me that nobody else could

Oh, you make me wild
When I got you
I just can't sober up
You hit the scene make me wanna scream
I'm feelin’ riled
‘Cause baby you know you make me wild 
You make me wild

Baby getting wise with my riddles and my rhymes
Take me for a ride through the fabric of your mind
Candy to the soul
Sweet tooth eyes and ears
Everything you got to say is all I wanna hear, baby

Oh, you make me wild…


-About the song:

Originally a rock song from a previous project, “Make Me Wild” was completely overhauled, funkified, and presented as a punchy electronic dance track. The goal was to conjure the soul of an 80’s funk tune, and raise it in a DAW nursery. It had to sound like a band was jamming. Drums were “performed” to emulate a natural feel. Bass automations were composed in reaction to drum improvisations. Prince-esque keys jab between vocal phrases, while “Slap bass” and auxiliary percussion fill in the gaps.

I started writing this after I fell in love with Prince’s Purple Rain. The amount of soulful prowess in his vocals is something I rarely hear in today’s hits. He is truly a master of micro-emotions. Every phrase is a collection of living, breathing inflections. It’s what made pop a thing. Nowadays, “pop” is practically a smear term for something lacking depth. Back in the days of Michael Jackson, it was an artform. So I’m quite comfortable and pleased with how dancey and poppy “Make Me Wild” turned out.

Rave Boar is a big believer in group effort, especially when it comes to vocals. Guest vocalists Tracy Lofton and Jared Chastain can be heard singing along with Rave Boar’s Heather Killebrew in the three part harmony section. It was fun. I pretty much let them write their own parts. Before and after every take it went something like “do something lower - try something higher - yeah that’s good, now put your back into it”. The BGVs added gobs of energy, even when just slightly in the mix.

For the key solo, I worked with funky keysman, Ryan Bailey, who was in my funk band at the time. Benjamin and I designing a lead synth that we could crossfade into a vocoder. I just let Ryan have at it for a while, and he tore it up. I strongly recommend getting professional musicians to perform solos in your tracks (for those of you who aren’t Haywyre anyway). His ideas really provided an energy that drives the song to levels we wouldn’t have gotten to with nit-picky, automated, drawn-in midi notes. I also recommend having a drummer record the drum part on your 16 pad device. He will come up with ideas you would never have thought of.

Another decision Benjamin and I had to make was deciding how “old school” a production style to emulate. “Sh**y is pretty” is a catchphrase I heard used in the production of funk. But I wanted it to thump and rumble like an Au5 or a Koan Sound track. It's a new day for funk!

I hope you put this song to good use! I recommend bumping up the bass in your eq and cranking it at a dance party… I also recommend you hiring Rave Boar for a dance party.

Be safe. Enjoy responsibly. Get turnt. And as the great George Clinton once said “funk”.

-Brian Collins

Citric Acid EP

Make Me Wild

An interdimensional bridge between 70's hippie funk and the dance music of tomorrow, we peddle a substance-infused jamboree of soul-drenched bass and vocal.

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