Play For Today: A Shallow, Trance-Like State
6 January 2009 | 11:23 PM
I went back into GarageBand land for today’s opus, once again messing around with the built-in loops and adding a few of my own. This has a little faux trance-like edge to it, but I’m far from an electronica maven so it’s a facsimile at best. Also, when the ensemble comes back in after the bridge you really notice how buried the natural drums sound in the mix – there’s no pop at re-entry. That said, even though it gets to be repetitive after a while, I like the overall groove: sort of laid-back and propulsive at the same time. Anyway, let ‘er rip:
I think it’s probably time I invest in an actual electric guitar again – some of the loops I’ve been creating while ham-fistedly sampling myself noodling on a twelve-string acoustic don’t really cut it. Ahh well, dare to dream…
Posted by Andy in Play For Today
I’m not into electronica all that much but I like this one too…but the ending…it just stops…
The intro could’ve taken the song a whole other “acid rock” direction too…
Yeah, the ending, I (so far) haven’t worked on these being complete songs, per se. More like zygotes of songs that I could possibly use down the road if needed. Plus, it’s an opportunity for me to familiarize myself with the GarageBand way of multi-track recording, as I was a MOTU/ProTools person back in the day.
I don’t really know how this came out so electronic, really. That’s not really my bag as a rule. I think it’s probably a function of the use of samples and loops – it kind of lends itself to that sort of thing. Will see if I can go acid rock on you one of these days, but frankly that’s even further out of my element than this crapola is.
Thanks for the feedback!