Welcome to my Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beat story….. Link to post here. NI Blog here. How it started….. So I read through our lo-fi hip hop beat a little bit, and the article recommends opening up Battery in Komplete Kontrol. I don’t have Battery currently, so this was the first challenge to overcome. For me, Read More …
Category: Song
Releases go hear if they are not collected elsewhere. This could also be where tracks start as I am working on them.
Moroder’s Lab
I don’t really think this song is really that good example of a Moroder style bass or sound. The title cam about in the following way…. The cover band I play bass in, La Fete Du Funk, was working on some new ABBA tunes to add to the set, and the chord progression is inspired Read More …
Family Night Movie Night
This tune started as chords on the piano. The kids were playing in the living room, and I was upstairs when this popped into my head. Another happy accident in the home. Downstairs I ran, to start the computer. While I wait for Microsoft to load, i tried the same chords on a string instrument. Read More …
Deep Groove
I honestly don’t really remember how this tune started out. It was one of these tunes, that I was thinking of something…. I know I played it on something I thought more about it. I finally sat down at my desk. 1bluebass · Deep Groove In The Floor Here is the video for this song… Read More …
Megaman
This song started on the Maschine. It was only bussed to Ableton for “better” mixing and mastering. It is inspired by an old friend of mine who I played many musical theater jobs with, and a few jazz trio gigs. The theater jobs were almost exclusively with Underscore Theater, though I do remember one with Read More …
Scientific Robot Fight
This song was named by my oldest daughter. She came up with the name as she already had video ideas on her first hearing. Quick Notes :: This was the first song I started working with the DirtyLA Plugin.
Slipstream Chase
This song is inspired by some of the stop animation films my daughter started creating. This came up after seeing a few of these and being super proud of her. 1bluebass · Slipstream Chase
R2 Unit
This tune is old. I used to perform this one with Machine Tools as well. This might be one of the last tunes that I still have that was started back on Acid. I mean the old music software program by Sonic Foundry. I really used to love that program a lot back in the Read More …
Minor Illusions
The third song on my first album, Initial Experiments, was started as chords on the bass which is how the song starts. This is the first tune I recorded with live instruments along with VST instruments. Once I came up with the chord progression, I manually entered it into Ableton using the pencil tool. All Read More …