so this is awesome. Nikolai, an independent emcee out of Australia, has just dropped his debut album on Alcatrax Records. i just got the cd in the mail. i did the beat for the album’s third single, ‘This Haze’. i was going for a sort of Dr. Dre vibe with the string stabs and a [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009, by alex
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I don’t know if I made it clear in my last post about Mr. J. Medeiros, but I really like Of Gods and Girls. This is a remix I made of ‘Her Wings’. It isn’t a huge departure from the original, aside from the chorus which definitely gives the song a different energy.
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Posted on Monday, July 13th, 2009, by alex
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I had a goal this year which was basically to make one song every week and stick to it for the whole year. I ended up doing it for a couple months until I realized nobody was really listening so I stopped. Now that I have this website and I know there are at least [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 9th, 2009, by alex
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been experimenting with dance music stuff lately, learning synthesis and other super fun things. came up with a neat little riff on the bass and this track came out of it. it’s short and simple, but i like it :]. reminds me of that blur song for some reason. is that just me?
Seven
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Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009, by alex
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I feel like a lot of the time my best stuff is made by accident.This song (hopefully) sounds similar to Boards of Canada (hence the title) — I’d actually been trying to recreate the sounds they use for a while, but it was only when I stopped trying that I actually came close. It’s really [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009, by alex
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For those of you who aren’t familiar, Alpha Omega is an emcee from LA, and one of their best kept secrets. We’d been trying to collaborate on something for a loooong time now, and it finally came together a couple months ago. It’s a very personal track, AO spits some of the deepest shit I’ve [...]
Posted on Monday, June 1st, 2009, by alex
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