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Episode 5 - Digging through the Archives

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Episode 5 - Digging through the Archives This was a fun podcast to put together for me. First I'll give you the breakdown of what you're hearing: 0:00 - Bad Plus Beat 1:07 - Alleys at Dawn 2:35 - Paz is a si zaP 4:41 - African Oyoyo 6:25 - Bad Plus Beat revisited 8:53 - Flying Juice 13:54 - Latin Thought This time around I decided to try to make a mix of tracks that I thought would flow well together. I took some time to browse through my archive of tracks, and I was able to find quite a few beats that had never been used or released in any form. I'll give you a brief review of the tracks. "Bad Plus Beat" is named because it originally was built around a sample of a Bad Plus song. Unfortunately, over time some of the samples I have chosen get lost in the process of moving files around. So what you hear on this track is simply the arrangement of the song without the sample. I enjoyed this track on its own without samples and I thought it was a good intro to set the

Episode 4 - Sleep and Shittyfaced Dub Style

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Episode 4 - Sleep and Shittyfaced Dub Style Its almost 3 AM on Friday morning and I am finding myself at the end of a great remixing session. I was able to start on a new version of "Sleep" tonight and see it all the way through to the end in a few hours. (Ironically, I am foregoing a good night's sleep in the process.) I am enjoying the style that is arising from these remixes. Reason is allowing me to add many effects to sounds I had previously only recorded and processed in Adobe Audition. This version of "Sleep" is more laid back than the original version. Lots of reverb and delay helped make this a very atmospheric track. Thunderstorms cutting loose outside have been a great inspiration for the heavier part of the song. I hope that you will enjoy this version of the tune. You will find it available for download at http://www.reverbnation.com/pbuck To fill out the rest of the podcast, I have also tacked on an instrumental version of the "Shittyfaced par