Sunday, October 26, 2008

Reason doesn't suck.



Maybe those Enlightenment philosophers were on to something after all.

There was a Trumbull Master's tea last week, and DJ Kno of the cunniLynguists came to talk to us about how to differentiate from hot and wack (aka the Raekwon-Soulja Boy continuum). He was asked what programs he used, and one of the first he brought up was Reason, the program used to make this track.

For this assignment, we had to make a 60 sec House, Ambient, or Techno beat. I wanted this to be able to be played at the raves, so that ruled House out, and Ambient is kinda wack (right there alongside K-Fed's PoPoZao, his 'Brazilian Ass-shaker'). So I settled on a 4 to the floor beat (somewhat altered in second half) at 137 BPM (Disco Heaven), some ridic synth sounds and effects, syncopation, and a more than ample dose of raveability.

Armageddon - Jordan Schneider

Thanks to KR for the initial melody, AJ for telling me to add crazier drums, and really chill British guy in Electronic Music for coming up with the name-Armageddon.

This took 4.5 hours, or 4.5 minutes per second of music.
You better like it.

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