As I’ve stated before, I got my introduction to creating electronic music by using the MTV Music Generator on a Sony PlayStation. I’ve recently come across some tapes containing tracks from this time and digitized some of them. Some are OK, some are bad, and there were a few that were just unlistenable. Please ignore…
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Tags: music, playstation
When I’m feeling stuck creatively, something that helps out fantastically is to pick apart someone else’s song and remix it. I fell into a bit of a funk recently and as a result have been focusing extensively on remixes, going so far as to start up a thread on one of my favorite forums to…
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Tags: music, remix
Before I discovered Reason, I somehow stumbled across Propellerhead’s other flagship product, the now-discontinued ReBirth RB-338. This software recreated a stack of legendary Roland instruments: the TB-303, the TR-808 and the TR-909. It was basically acid techno in a box. It sounded great and looked cool as hell. It did, however, retain some issues that…
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Tags: propellerhead, RB-338, rebirth
Some time ago, Samantha (my fiancĂ©e,) asked me “why don’t you ever write any French house music?” The answer is “because I am awful at it.” This was before the latest Daft Punk record had dropped, so we hadn’t yet been disillusioned and I sat down that evening with the intention of quickly working out…
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Tags: french house, music
I found David through the “Reasoners” reddit community, where he had posted a link to download the project file for this track as an example of what could be done with Propellerhead’s Reason software and that it could be considered a competitive DAW. I’d heard some of his stuff before, finding him through previous posts…
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Tags: collaboration, music, remix