Having just installed the software Fruity Loops, I decided to use this competition as a reason to teach myself how to use it. Almost every night over 2.5 weeks in November 2010 was spent messing around with the samples provided & layering instrument samples chosen from a Computer Music Magazine DVD until it was submission time. Unfortunately, I hadn’t enough time to learn how to master my track & thus it sounded pretty awful, Jeff T won the competition with an awesome take on the track (available from Beatport here), and that was that.
Now, 5 months later, I’ve re-opened the FL project file & mastered the track as best as possible on my old XP machine, that for some reason made playback crackle after running each element through a compressor and in the end forced me to tweak the settings blind (or deaf, however you like to look at it).
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After a walk around Bathpool, Kidsgrove, I climbed down to the abandoned railway line & Harecastle railway tunnel as it had been a long time since I had ventured into the eerie pit past the car park.
In The Mix: Volume 2 was heavily inspired by Elite Force’s ReVamped album that was released early 2010, along with countless hours listening to The Strongarm Sessions over the years!
Definitive Dubstep Trilogy Part 2: Lost Transmission
The second album in my Dubstep trilogy racks up a whopping 57 tunes over 50 tracks in 1 hour and 20 minutes, and is inspired by the infamous Numbers Stations…
As a bout of thunder & lightning ceased, the sun broke through & the clouds looked as if they were encircling the house…was it the eye of the storm? I can’t remember as it was 2.5 years ago…
