well this kinda got out of hand... kinda

started this morning with a simple dubstep riddim (bassline and drumbeat) and thought: "this is kinda empty. get some metaphorest in this bitch!" remembered raven and started setting up the riddim to fit ravens. had to stop. tonight heard gwen's "fuck hitrecord" and then the hesher collab. sampled about everything i could use for this bit from the intro video and came up with several drum and bass beats. then the mix got ful very quickly. "me thinkst i need a challenge" - the challenge then was to use only a minimalistic amount of samples / instruments. all drumbeats are from the same samples. all basslines are from the same synth. the final bassline is based on the sample "how the fuck did i end up in this hitrecord video" - same cadence.

90% through and the main arrangement in place i started playing with ravens again. inserted a few references to keep the mix flowing and to make it entertaining but not too cluttered.

finally a few minutes ago gwen hit record again and MADE! me use her hitrecord harmonies :D

ps: overall time spent: 5 hours. a little over the usual limit but it was worth it.

"Third Person (Venns RMX)"

Remix Produced By: Venns

Verse Vocals: P.Flow Matics

Chorus: Riana6

this started out as an excercize of quickly put together a beat - initially as a remix of P.Flow Matics' "Mathematics" but i stumbled on this "pad/bell" song which is on file as vis - falling asleep - but neither has via this song in her records nor could i find it under this title. if anyone can help reference this - please do.

the song instantly went from hard hiphop to something fat jon the ample sound physician would cook up. i have been hungry for this kind of track for a long while now so i set myself a new task: create a space-hop track in less than 3 hours. the main structure was done after 20 minutes and i was missing something. first thought: vocals. second thought: speech. third thought: i love words. done and done.

took pam's track and put it against flockofwords' - i love how those two renditions of the same text are so extremely different. they also fit perfectly into the beat i created. played a bit with positioning, breaks and cuts and let the ladies do their magnificent work.

ps: my own response to the poem is here: http://hitrecord.org/records/388040

the first time i heard "wanderer" a rolling drum and bass track was in my mind. after 2 days of shifting frequencies and blocks on my screen this came out. i must say without jeffpeff's and robo_j's previous work i may never have found the structure needed - so thank you very much guys.

tempo: 176 bpm

rant:

i am getting into doing slideshows more seriously though i have trouble synching audio and video in a propoer manner because my idea of a sequencer is greatly influenced by audio-sequencers. video sequencers are incredibly cumbersome concerning audio (even video in most cases). vegas 10 seems to be an easy going piece of software and still it has a few quirks that really piss me off sometimes and rob me of countless seconds of unnecessary repetition of tasks that should have been hotkeyed in the first place. anyway.

on with the release:

pasiv makes this incredibly awesome music and i was looking for tunes to support and inhance my photography to create slideshows. enter "on bridges" (http://hitrecord.org/records/378900) - a brilliant track i NEEDED to use. and so i did to check out the quality of a 720p render vegas does. i am positively impressed. the first render (uncompressed avi) was 11GB in size which was kind of a drag to upload so i switched to mp4 - et voila!

for the lovely