Well it’s the day before my birthday and I decided to finally put up the album I’ve been working on for the last few months.
It’s called ‘An Imperfect Mind’.
The album is really an expression of the Manic-Depression I suffer from. It starts off kinda dark and depressed, then fluctuates through different moods.
Here is the Play List:
An Imperfect Mind I – Not a very structured song. It is representation of how my mind tends to wander. Yet repeat the same things.
Call to Death – An experimentation with Black Metal styles. Aggressive metal parts are split by near depressed and sad bits. Has a cool finish.
Evil Messages – An odd dance track. Made unsettling by the fact there is strange speaking through out the song.
Funky Space Drop – A return to old friends. Part funk and Part space electronica.
Hip Acid JaaaaZ Hop – Continuing the fun with another jazzy trip hop song.
An Imperfect Mind II – The fun ends with this aggressive and rage filled track.
In an Acid Funk – Just like my own rages I tend to come out of them rapidly, then get moody. This is another Acid Funk song to return us to the funner side of things.
Lunch Break Beat – A pretty straight forward break beat song.
Psychedelic Peace Offering – I think I was drunk when I was working on this. It’s very trippy, and rather peaceful. Thus the name. I really like this one.
An Imperfect Mind III – A return to depression. Uses elements of the first two songs, but much slower and… drained.
Robotic Lullaby – Inspired by a messed up radio.
ScatMan#1
Scatman#2 – These two tracks are just me having some fun. Scat style vocals.
Tip Toe Through The GraveYard #2 – Another of my creepy songs. No matter how many times I listen to it, it still gets me in a couple of places. Good little chills.
Untitled – An odd song, but good. I never could think up a name for it.
An Imperfect Mind IIII – Mania returns. Elements from all 3 previous tracks are used. This time they are faster, and jumbled up.
1. An Imperfect Mind part 1
2. Call to Death
3. Evil Messages
4. Funk Space Drop
5. Hip Acid Jazz Hop
6. An Imperfect Mind Part 2
7. In an Acid Funk
8. Lunch Break Beat
9. Psychedelic Peace Offering
10. An Imperfect Mind Part 3
11. Robotic Lullabye
12. Scatman #1
13. Scatman#2
14. Tip Toe Through The Graveyard 2
15. Untitled
16. An Imperfect Mind part 4
Big beat music is probably the most widely known style of electronic-based music in America. Groups such as the chemical Brothers, fat boy Slim, the Crystal method, and the prodigy are all pioneers of big beat.
Obviously it is a wide genre of electronic music. However it does have the few defining characteristics. Fast, heavy, distorted and punk influenced pop, jazz, techno and rock sounds along with psychedelic music influences characterize the style. Obviously certain groups, and artists were influenced more strongly by some more than others.
Fat boy Slim, is more funky. The prodigy, are more punk. The chemical Brothers and the Crystal method are more techno.
Producing Big Beat is all about big sound. The drums should be distorted and loud. Vocals can have a punk edge, and also be distorted. Intense bass lines and synthesizer loops are also characteristic of the style.
Fast drops of elements, explosive addition or return of elements, wind and droning noises and extreme work in the stereo field are also common.
This is style of electronic-based music I first got into. The prodigy’s fat of the land album is still a favorite.
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These specific settings are a personal preference, not rules set in stone.
Starting with guitar. Guitar should be panned off to one side about 20%. It needs to be louder during solos and instrumental sections, and lower during vocals.
Rhythm Guitar should be centered, but lower. The Rhythm Guitar should be treated as part of the Rhythm section and used to drive the song, it should not be louder than the lead guitar.
Bass should be panned off to the other side about 10%. It should be at a fairly low volume through the whole track. The bass should mix with the drums to create your rhythm section.
Drums should be panned in relation to where the drum being hit, is on the drum kit. Your kick drum should be centered. Snare drums should be panned 10 to 50% to either side depending on their location on the drum kit. Hi hat should be panned 70% or so, to the side it’s located on the drum kit. Symbols can be panned anywhere, as can other percussion. The idea is to give the impression of sitting in front of the drum kit while it’s being played.
Keyboards should be panned to the same side as the bass at about 30%. Depending on the style, determines the volume keyboards should be played. Obviously during keyboard solos; or parts that emphasize keyboards, they need to be louder.
Vocals should always be panned to the center. During verses, and the chorus the vocals should be the loudest element of the song. Additional vocal elements can be panned and set at a volume appropriate for the effect desired.
Standard rock music, and pop music arrangement is as follows( while variations are used for all songs, this is the basic structure used in most rock and pop music):
This arrangement, however is typically set aside for more story oriented songs.
For example ’stairway to heaven’.
This is an example of a ‘building song’.
In this arrangement the song starts low and slow, then builds to a grand finale that ends; typically, with a slow finish.
Bohemian Rhapsody, is also a good example of this kind of arrangement.
A jam song, generally has no set arrangement. Lyrics are frequently improvised, as are various elements of the song. Grateful Dead songs, particularly on their live albums exemplify this kind of free form arrangement.
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A fast paced dance track. Would likely qualify as Trance. Considering I never really have a plan when i start making a song, It could be called IDM, or just my own style which I call Chao-Core.
This is a collaboration I did with Fat Tone Tony ‘The Freestyle Pitbull’. He’s on vocals, I did the beat and production.
If you like the song you can buy it through the link at the bottom of the page.
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