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Get yourself Sampled!

In celebration of 1000 SoundCloud followers, I’m opening the stage
to you guys. Now YOU can be part of my music!

All you need to do is: send me a recording of you saying what
music means in your life, plus sounds made with stuff around the house.
Then, I will use as much material as possible for my next song.

Everybody will get the finished song for free and
you will earn a place in the credits list if your sounds get used.

- Submissions end March 22
- Put your name on the audio file & SC title “First Last - sound.wav”
- Send your downloadable sound via soundcloud.com/inofaith/dropbox

Send me your
Voice & Sounds - For best results record in AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, OGG: 16-bit 44.1kHz or higher
- Use 320kb/ps when recording MP2, MP3, AAC files

 

Egoless - Insanity Dub

Holy crap! EGOLESS has come full circle if you ask me.

This track slaps you right in the face like a spring reverb!

Egoless is a guy from Croatia that has been producing Deep Dubstep 
and recently started exploring the voodoo world of dub; making all kinds of tracks that are reminiscent of King Tubby, Scientist and Augustus Pablo. 


He even took on remixing Bob Marley, which is very brave considering remixing legends is only worth it if you can actually add some value to what’s already there.

Filed under: bass dub dubbed dubstep egoless jamaica spring reverb
 

Beatboxing in Google Translate

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Besides whistling a tune, we’ve all tried vocalising a drum pattern before. 
Some are naturally good at it and call themselves beatboxers. 
However, most people don’t get passed “boom boom tsik”.

Actually, you can trick Google Translate into pronouncing that very phonetic transcription of percussive notes. 

Finding the right sounds
Here is how it works. Go to translate.google.com and set the language from German to German.
Now you need to figure out which letter combinations trigger certain sounds. 
I found these: 

* “bch” is a good Kickdrum.
* “ts” and “tz” function as Hihats.
* “bsch” sounds like a Snaredrum.

And then there is a variety of weird sounds you can explore like: pv, zk, qx, kk.
Basically you need to use only vowels and write a minimum of two letters next to each other to produce a sound. Any single letter will be pronounced literally.

Writing a beat
This is where it gets tricky. You need to understand how a step-sequencer or drum-notation works in order to make patterns. 
Not only that, the sounds produced by Google Translate vary in length. 

So it’s like working with a sampler that only has sounds of different lengths and you can’t place them on a grid. You
can only puzzle them in-line one after another. 

Here is the little beat I wrote.

Have fun!
 

M.I.A. - Born Free. Now that's what I call a video clip. (directed by Romain Gavras)

Apart from the haunting, filtered synth bassline and speaker-phone vocal samples that keep you on the edge of your seat,
this song comes with a strong piece of visual art directed by Romain Gavras that will certainly spawn controversy around the web and yield many dislikes among the narrow minded who deem anything “racist”.

Gavras seems to work with songs that have daunting intro’s and knows how to add extra tension build-up. He does this by baffling the audience with very graphical, fast paced shots that give you an immediate adrenaline rush.
Towards the end he tops it off with slo-mo scenes as the song reaches a peak filled with high-pitched strings that kind of make you hold your breath.
A little moment of contemplation before it ends with a bang.

Make up your own mind about it and watch the video (nsfw).

The way of filming is rough which suits the action scenes and they know how to pick great locations. Kudos for his DP André Chemetoff (assistant camera for The Happening 2008)

Also check out the video he directed for Justice - Stress.

Filed under: born free controversy director dp film graphical m.i.a. m.i.a. born free music video romain gavras tension video clip visual
 

Be kind, click "Share"

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For the listeners out there. 

When you like a track on soundcloud, be so kind to to hit the "Share"
button just above the play button and show your love.

This goes for all artists, they appreciate it very much. Post it to
your facebook, tweet it, put a post-it on your cat or blog about it.

Soundcloud isn't just for producers and DJ's to listen to each others
tracks, as a listener you can sign up for a "Fan/Listener" account and
start following your favorite artists. There is so many talent out
there waiting to be discovered.

Be kind, click "Share". Thank you :)

Filed under: appreciation be kind inofaith love share sharing show love soundcloud
 

Let’s start this blog off with a bang: “Flubsig”

This is one of the first dubstep tracks I produced.

A year has passed and this little monster remains the most played track on my soundcloud, counting 2700 plays.
The track is raw, wobbly and a bit dark, but fun at the same time.
I made up the name ”Flubsig” because of the loose jello-like, flappy wobble which reminded me of flubber.

You can grab a 160kbps version for your mp3 player here.

I have used some sound design in the intro, created the synths from scratch and sampled myself beatboxing for some parts of the drums.
The fun part was playing around with Mary Anne Hobbs’ lovely voice, which I sampled from a documentary. You can hear that around 1:50 in the first break.

Flubsig

Flubsig has been used in a Bikini ad by Dutch lingerie brand Sapph. It showed on different TV stations nationwide, several times.

Filed under: dark dubstep flubsig hard inofaith production raw wobble
 

So I changed my posterous thingy

Testing all systems. From now on I will be blogging from this address http://inofaith.posterous.com

Most posts will end up on twitter, facebook and other sites as well.
Now lets see where this message ends up using autopost.
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