One afternoon, in Rotterdam, I was setting up equipment in a bar: with a friend of mine, we were preparing to jam there for a few hours. I also had set up a recorder to have a trace of our performance.
There was something in the air… like if the atmosphere was full of tiny invisible sparks. Yes, the ambiance was electric. So I also recorded the ambiance before we played…
Back home, I played the ambiance sound of the bar in my DAW, and it hit me straight away. I needed horns! And an intro beat followed by punch explosion! The electricity had to get out!
Playing around like this, with vocal samples, the buffer effect I presented in a previous music post, improvising on a piano, fiddling on a polysix for the bass sound, designing some groovy synth licks… basically fooling around with ideas, often leads to cool tracks like this one.
I produced this music in my DAW of choice, Reason, making a heavy use of the Thor for the synth sounds. Even though it is a really basic instrument, it is so versatile! Whatever style I am working on, I very often end up using Thor instead of the fancy super synths that make you full blown tracks by the touch of a button haha!
And when I finalize a project like this, I really enjoy the part where I add ear candy by designing cool sound effects or arranging punchy transition. Check out the number of tracks that I ended up having to mix together (the mix was pain, lol)!
If you have the possibility, listen to the track on good speakers or headphones, there are a lot of funky details to uncover!
I hope you enjoy the effervescent latino electro hiphop pop fusion piece that came out of this!
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