So far I have refrained from posting any of my own beats or music from bands that I was involved with here... Until now.
Not that it's a big deal. I came across this thing in the bowels of my hard drive today. It was the start of a beat tape that I lost interest in. There's four beats, or parts of them -
1. Subway W/ Vince and Jules - 00:00 -00:23 - It's funny how these names come about. I dubbed the beat from my friend Wilson - It was a Reason thing he had done with all these crazy rex samples of subway sounds. I really dug the chop and delay work he did with it, I added a riddim from a remix of another beat - and just HAD to add an 8 minute sample from Pulp Fiction... You know how these things are. This is kind of a "favorite moment".
2. Arriel's Lament - 00:24 - 01:05 - Like I said about the name thing - This is the coda of a beat that for years has just been called "ARR". This undulating bass loop is one of the first samples I ever cut with a sampler, in 2000. It has all kinds of heavy connotations for me - Like the fly in a Renaissance painting; Here is death, here is corruption in the physical sense, decay...
Like I said, it's heavy for me. I'm posting a series of these "Laments" on my myspace pretty soon - The first part of this beat has "anime opening theme" written all over it so bad that I want to find some middle aged japanese karaoke guy to sing over it... But you won't hear that on this mix. Instead...
3. Dub 06 - 01:06 - 01:31 - The dubs... I like toying with live instruments when I get in the right mood. Good mike, shitty amp. This one is mostly live, which is highly unusual for me. The sample is classic, and that's got nothing to do with me. All Pachino.
4. 8Eyes Warfare - 01:32 - 03:02 - The name thing... The synths are playing one of the level themes from an 8-bit video game called 8 Eyes. This beat is boobytrapped, I got stuck making this mix because I couldn't figure out where I should have the next beat drop, I love this track too much - The "Warfare" part of the title is a riddim I have that will fit under almost anything it's in time with - all the drums in this are jacked from a beat on my "Apology" project called "cubicle warfare" - It's a really versatile and sparse break with a good fill... I've dubbed it like this with maybe 6 other things... It gets kind of silly sometimes.
NTZ Master Mix
That's that. The sound quality is not the best - I did a very quick touch up job. I'd like some feedback - Oh, and if I hear somebody sucking ass over any of this stuff, I will hunt you down and dismember you, just so that's out there. Not that I'm that worried about anybody making street hits outta these beats anyway. So, yeah, have a listen and delete it if you want to. Burn it to a cd and rip it as an mp3 if you think it's ok but not great; It'll take up less room. Or use some fancy conversion program you kids use that us crotchety old buggers aren't hip to yet. Whatever. I think Media player has a great mp3 coding algorithim. I don't know the math, but I trust my ears.
Obviously I'm in a talkative mood.
NoSleep: Where'd you go mane?
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