Melbourne Beats

some beats i have been working on, basically hiphop i dunno. both unfinished and having trouble with arrangement tbh, on crap headphones mixdown, and want them short time wise.

tell me what you think.

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awesome. will think of more stuff to say soon, but yeah...

needs moar emphasis on all four beats.
sum handbag vocals.
hand claps are win.
mayb some big fliter bit wear some rappin comes in and tells ever1 to shaky tehir booty like they would if htey were munting on coke at teh gays club.

thanks for listening
meant to be 4x4 slow handbag
more choppage of rnb hits of the 90's imminent

2nd one is rad.

Would go down well in a half time rave before murkmen start playing substep and ruin the day.

I can see the potential for some r'n'b grovve styled slow handbag with an electro tinge.
Let me know if you need me to do a cameo appearance with some french chicks in your video.

I really like the second one too!

Bangin. Very little required now other than subtle finishing touches. Maybe a little dry though, like it needs some... air or something.


[ponders how to elaborate]

Ok. (Wanker alert) If you think about it like looking out a train window, foreground objects move quickly while what's in the distance moves slowly. So while the foreground elements are all there in these tunes, you might want to consider some (very subtle) background, air, atmosphere. I'm not sure what to call it. And not necessarily reverb, there's lots of other ways about it.

IMO.

thanks for the feedback and listening to my slow handbag beats

iv been working on adding some 'character' to a few accent sounds today and thinking about ways of giving them some space in the mix (the parrralllax foreground background logic you mention) both mixes are pretty much completely dry atm. added some 'air' and sidechained it to the percussion as well, unsure if its working yet though. need to do some subtle panning on noises as well.

Blaxter wrote:needs moar emphasis on all four beats.
sum handbag vocals.
hand claps are win.
mayb some big fliter bit wear some rappin comes in and tells ever1 to shaky tehir booty like they would if htey were munting on coke at teh gays club.

Breaks?

these are actually quite cool.


however i want to hear

needs more spelling mistakes

Can I get an autographed 320 of the second one?

Like all the sounds - think the arrangment is off.

1st one - not much low end to speak off - not sure if that was deliberate lo-fi or due to headphones mixdown - but either way I think it works well. Bassline is in a different key/out of tune from other elements which I find quite distracting. Take the bit from 2 mins onward - underlying chords in the breakdown sound fine on their own - not sure what the chords but the root note is a D, then the stabs come in with Gminor which is a little awkward but not completely incompatible, but then when the bassline comes in at 2:15 it's forcing the root note to F and it just doesn't gel. If you brought that up to a D it would be more musically coherent, although it would also feel 'happier' and change the feel of the tune alot. You could maybe pull the chords into line with the bline to keep the darker F feel.

Second one - VibesquaD - Memebers Only sample? hehe. Or maybe same preset. This one has a bit more low end balance, quite a different tone balance overall to the first one. Elements are out of key with eachother again, but isn't as distracting. Results in more of a atonal techno feel.


I think you do a bit of work on musical theory/chords your melodic ideas would be done a lot more justice.

keep it up, bro etc.

awsome thanks for taking the time to write that flippo, dboy etc.
i havent a musical background at all so im starting to look into some basic musical theory to get some of these elements to gel better, probably teh least musical person i know .
its all sample based, noises iv grabbed and made, resampled, slogged around - no synths or patches to speak of. trying to make slow percussive drummy 4 x 4, but then start losing the plot after 20 mins and reach for teh 80's and tearout basslicks.

hey nic

do like

I think you should attempt to condense the arrangements and switch between themes more frequently.

these have quite progressive arrangements but I dont think thats the vibe you're going for IMO.

more changes, more frequently and these will work better for me.

both tunes are shit

aroes wrote:both tunes are shit

i still care for you, bro.


did another slighty less handbag tune last night, pretty messy.

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third is my pick of the lot, still really shit though unfortunately

not sure quite what lephrenic was on about, but do more of that

stick with it bro, all the boys are behind you 100%

third one is choice bro

nic pls post your breaks tunes from 4 years ago ...............

good work mate... that third one, whilst not really to my taste, is very well done.

everyone is on your dick about the third one

imho give up on the first two coz they are really shit

focus all your attn on the third one immediately......rmx, re-rub, dub-rub, uk funky re-fix, youthful implants brakes is alive vip etc

arrghh dont worry aroes im under no illusion that these are any good - ill try again now teh hash has run out.
might be best to do these sober

i was only joking bro

gis a listen to the brakes choons plz

aroes wrote:everyone is on your dick about the third one

imho give up on the first two coz they are really shit

focus all your attn on the third one immediately......rmx, re-rub, dub-rub, uk funky re-fix, youthful implants brakes is alive vip etc

massive.

Are you a glitch hop artist?

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fixed