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JWM - Bored Beat (TripHop inspired by BoC done in Gadget)
Lately I've been listening to Boards of Canada, and I decided to try a TripHop beat inspired by them. Not to copy them note for note mind you, but to try something new in Gadget.
I used Bilbao for some imported drum samples (just the kick, the reverse snare, the crash cymbal, and the hall kick). The rest of the drums come from a loop in Stockholm (the .rex file player in Gadget perfect for playing back breakbeats). Then the thick pads are Montpellier (iMono/Poly), and the bass is Pompeii (iPolysix). The saturated sine lead is Chiangmai, and the electric piano is Montreal.
I did a couple of interesting tricks and such to get that "ethereal" sound of things being played back on tape. Did you know if you use Gadget's flanger, turn the feedback to 0%, and the mix to 100%, and adjust the other knobs according to taste, you can get a pretty decent tape warble simulation? I also made use of Gadget's saturator to distort things to taste (whether mildly or more heavy-handed).
Mastered in Cubasis, I avoided using Taip this time in the master effects. The more I mastered with Taip, the more shit my masters began to sound, no matter how low I'd turn the saturation down. (I mostly used Taip for the "glue" slider, lol). I'm rather chuffed with how this one turned out.
Comments
So are people just allergic to commenting on my tracks or something? Even just to let me know if I'm on the right path? Or any tips for nailing the BoC sound more accurately or something?
Great sounds, I like the melodies sprinkled amongst the repetitive beat + synth. I like the pacing a lot up until the 3:45 mark - it felt like the song evolved to that point, then maybe jumped back to a structure from earlier in the song. It lost a bit of momentum but didn’t take long to get back to it.
But really, I was nodding to the best and a few of those chime melodies will definitely get stuck in my head.
Now that's the kind of feedback I'm looking for. ❤️ Some compliments and some helpful critique as well. ☺️ Man I appreciate you, mate.
Man I'm glad to read this. Thanks mate.
Maybe some more tape emulation with the boc wow and flutter?
A good idea.
I think I have all the tape emulation plugins. Which of those would you recommend to get me closest to the BoC sound?
Not a real tape emulation but I like Wires
and tapescam
Oh and K7D
Tapescam! I instabought it upon its initial release but never got around to using it.
Think that's the one I'll have a play with.
The more I binge BoC, the more I'm starting to realize they are probably the biggest influences on TripHop (which I already made the correlation to once I binged on Thievery Corporation), nostalgic genres like Vaporwave (although BoC tap into mostly 70s nostalgia, not 80s), and Lofi (a genre I'm very familiar with producing). 🤯
Seriously, the last time I binged on BoC like this was 2019/2020, before I even dared to think about producing Lofi, so I didn't make the correlation back then. 😅
I absolutely love Unfiltered Audio’s lo-fi-af.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lo-fi-af/id6444068732
Nice to hear some like this with big sounds that aren’t all squeezed into a tiny frequency band. The more lo-fi the better with some like this.
Definitely has that right feel, but as you asked for feedback, the one thing I’d suggest is give it a looser feel. Not sure how you recorded the percussion, but I think it would benefit from being looser, or with the timing slightly off.
I haven't used that in a couple years. I should definitely give it another go soon. ❤️
I agree.
Ah, a more "J Dilla" approach, and make it loose. I programmed the drum loop from Stockholm by dumping the loop slices directly onto the grid (with "imperfect" timings), but programmed the extra drums "on grid". Lol. I think I will try a different approach for drums in my next BoC-inspired piece for sure! ❤️ Probably go back to my Lofi HipHop roots.
Yeah, Dilla for sure. I love how those kind of imperfections in the timing just make something flow in such a different way. Would love to hear you do something like that.
For sure.
This was my last attempt at Lofi, but this was done in FL Studio Mobile...
https://forum.loopypro.com/discussion/67968/jwm-lofi-032526-lofi-hip-hop-in-flsm#latest
Edit - The drums are programmed rather "sloppy" in this one as you can hear.
Anyways, I'm becoming more interested in slicing and programming breakbeats in Gadget, so I'll be researching that. Or maybe I should try to build a BoC piece in Koala Sampler using its new Chopper feature.
Maybe sprinkle some weird audio over it like a documentary
or numbers stations like they did on gyroscope.
Just set your radio on MW and listen on whole and half hours for them.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/237820-The-Conet-Project
Thank you for all the info and advice @Meek3 .
That means a lot, mate.
Every opportunity i get to talk about the numbers stations i take 😀
Johann johannssen also used them in his music.
There is something special about it when you find them.
A secret message for someone.
That's so true though.
It's like borrowing a book from a library and finding someone's love note stuck between the pages of the book. ❤️