New Experimental Big Beat - Yes or No

jeff harrington · Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 84 Location: Brooklyn

Another experimental dance song, this time an exploration of crowd vocal simulations chanting slowly 'Yes... No...' plus monster big beats and a physically-modelled bass.

HiFi
DL

Very Happy

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 4:52 pm Post subject:

I say yes too. Very Happy

mosc · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:19 am Post subject:

jbenzola · Joined: Dec 11, 2003 Posts: 77 Location: NY

Jeff:

This is really a great piece! Sounds like an out take from Miles Davis "On the Corner" or "Get Up With It". This piece is pure sound and rhythm. Texture playing off a wall of rhythm. Everything in the piece is dictated by the rhythm. It relates more to Africa than the West. I love those noisey sustained chords! I don't know if your familiar with the Miles piece "Rated X", but this has a very similar vibe to it. I was listening on my laptop; are you using some ring modualtion on the bass or percussion? To me, this could have gone on much longer. It was a very short and enjoyable 3+ minutes! You should investigate this direction again..."New Directions in Music by Jeff Harrington"
Laughing

jeff harrington · Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 84 Location: Brooklyn

Hey thanks, Joe... that was a cool review. Lunch this week?

The drums are a standard funk kit for my A5000 but I'm running it through the A5000 super effects, chained it goes, Noise Delay (delays and pitch-shifts the sound up with each delay) a Reverse Gate, into a White Room echo chamber (tiny) into a V-Dist (attempt at old school tube amp distortion, and finally a Pitch Shifter with 0 pitch shift just to give it that slightly ring-modulated sound.

Mr. Green

jeff harrington · Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 84 Location: Brooklyn

After getting a lotta helpful comments from folks, I've remastered my Experimental Big Beat snog, Yes Or No. Mainly, I re-recorded it, eq-ed it, played with a shitload of compressor settings and ended up not compressing it at all... but it's still loud as fuck.

More drums, better bass mix and the vocals are much sicker now... getting a weird big beat floyd kinda sound me thinx...

HiFi
DL

seraph · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 2:37 pm Post subject:

that's a very nice piece. I like the rhythmic loop that stops and then starts again every once in awhile. it keeps it interesting. Is it the FS1R saying yes and no Question

nice job

jeff harrington · Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 84 Location: Brooklyn

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:12 am Post subject:

This one is great!

themoors · Joined: Dec 15, 2003 Posts: 148 Location: northern england

Great track man, there seems to be high standard of work floating about on this board, im slowily making my way though as much of it as possible.

keep it up!