I was reviewing some old works, “Bunk” specifically. Among all music composed at that time for that project, I found this song. Well, there was a starting idea, a sample. I never got to finish it without being disappointed with the result. So it never saw the light, until now.
It is certainly a necessary pause just before publishing “Onus”. Faced with the melancholy sounds of the strings, saturated drum machines and the gray atmosphere that characterizes “Onus”, this song makes a brake, relaxed and fresh. Escape of “Onus” made me most easily find the sound I was looking for for this “DJ” and close the song successfully. I needed to party.
“Dj” is also a new exercise of “DIY sample”, already used in Arbol: “Small fragments of songs recorded as an independent new song and subsequently used as sample. Original cuts, not bits of other songs.”
These are the sounds and rythms that came to betterwithmusic’s library in 2013…
SKETCHES
Sketches is basically an album of soul, of instrumental hiphop, of R’n’B. Sensual and reflective, in gereral. Delicate, but also pick up some rythm explosions. Passionate could be the adjective. But a controlled passion, elegant, somewhat distant. It’s a ritual of seduction.
Synthetic sounds close to the 80’s or 90’s to create songs based on chord progressions and basic arrangements of soul and funk. It looks like “Raw Dub”, but more soul and less “dub”.
SCENES FROM THE ZOO
Pop melodies with distorted guitars. Powerpop. Some grunge and shoegaze tunes too. Nerve riffs and powerful rhythms. Music that seeks immediate happiness boldly. No worries, no perfectionism. Noise. Positive songs, cheerful melodies, passional and “excessive”.
Referring to other projects of the library, I could say that “Scenes” it’s more optimistic and positive than “The Crowd”, more rogue than “Traveller’s Guide”.
GALAXY
Rhodes and Wurlitzer, pianos, acoustic drums and programming beats, strong synth-bass lines, slap bass, playful guitars, guitars with vocoder, tens of clavinets, classic synths (Moog, ARP, Davosynth, Jupiter-8, M1 etc), string arrangements … All tools available to create a dance compilation with old-fashion sounds, while still sounding modern. To vindicate these old grooves with a contemporary album. A funky Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…
VIIKINSAARI
Viikinsaari are small pieces for piano. And it’s water. It is the piano that calls the shots through melodies and rhythms inspired by the sounds of water, in their ways, their reflections … With string and wind arrangements that sound like whispers at times and other times explode in the ears leaving the piano in the background, like waves. A space for melancholy and contemplation.
SELE
Christmas songs that are not actually Christmas songs. The same happened with Año Nuevo and Postcard. They are songs inspired by this holiday season, by the winter, the family gatherings & reunions, the decorated houses … but at the same time, songs that can be heard all the year. Compositions about optimism and joy, with a touch of melancholy, couldn’t do it any other way. I wanted to add and highlight a homemade and imperfect character, direct, without excessive tweaking and production. Something accessible to young and old people.
New projects will come next year (I’m already working on it)
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Rhodes and Wurlitzer, pianos, acoustic drums and programming beats, strong synth-bass lines, slap bass, playful guitars, guitars with vocoder, tens of clavinets, classic synths (Moog, ARP, Davosynth, Jupiter-8, M1 etc), string arrangements … All tools available to create a dance compilation with old-fashion sounds, while still sounding modern. To vindicate these old grooves with a contemporary album. A funky Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… Keep moving to the rhythm!!
Influences… Herbie Hancock, retro-futurism, The Space Cowboy, Random Access Memories, Jackson 5’s choreographies, Chic, P-Funk All Stars, mirrorballs, Tony Manero, Stevie, Italo-Disco, Soul Train, Joe Zawinul & Jaco, Studio 54, The Message, Space Invaders, Philadelphia Soul, microKORG…
I was reviewing some old works, “Bunk” specifically. Among all music composed at that time for that project, I found this song. Well, there was a starting idea, a sample. I never got to finish it without being disappointed with the result. So it never saw the light, until now.
