Surdu here. Frasier and I live recorded one of our drum and synth jams and then tore it apart and put a bass underneath it. There is no beauty, only disgusting dopeness.
I really like the sickness/wrongness of the sounds on this one--it's like listening through a dirty mirror into another dimension.
@uny Totally, and sorry if I got defensive, but hey, what's more hip-hop than a beef? I've listened to this track on repeat for a few hours this weekend, and I agree that the kick could probably use a little more low-mid. At the same time, there is something kind of magical to me about kicks that are felt more than heard. The <100hz shaking of my honda fit with just the pop on top works for me. I'll link you to the splice. Do whatever. The full jam is in there too.
i dig it, yeah - the kick actually does pop nicely on the laptop speakers, i guess my comment comes from the fact that the bottom end doesn't feel as rounded out when i listen on top speakers. maybe i'm wanting some more low-mid (150-400hz) punch, but yeah that's just a preference. beat is definitely stanky af.
want to splice this one? i'd be interested in remixing some of the stems if you're willing.
@uny Thanks, dude! I'm bummed you think the kick doesn't punch. I love this kick drum. Don't get me wrong, I love the 808s and use them when I want the listener's trust, but 808s are typical and this is an atypical beat that benefits from having this bizarre, hard, hollow, booming kick. The kick inspired the groove, and since Frasier and I tend to only record audio into a single bus, corrections can only be made with cuts and warps. The constant warp force and compression does degrade the signal, but have you tried listening to it louder? We think it's stanky af. "Sick Beats" is the first project we've made that really captures what Oogooloo People are all about. I think this comes down to a matter of preference.
duuuude dope! i would have loved for you to throw in a breakbeat at the halfway point where it starts to go pitch shifty and crazy.
i always want your kicks to pop more in your mix. how are you making the attack now? have you tried a really fast envelope pitch shift down like 4 octaves to make a punchier 808-type sound?
First late submit for the Oogooloo People, but what do streaks matter to a race of people transfixed in a space beyond time? What is time, anyway? What is space? Do the Oogooloo People understand or even care about either of these things? Do you understand or even care that such a question should even exist? What does it mean to exist? What does it mean to care? Why do we care to exist? Do the Oogooloo People exist? Do the Oogooloo People care that we exist? Why should I care? Do you care to join me in questioning? What does it mean to question? Can a question exist as an intransitive verb? Wait, what was the question?
I'll post the full version later, but I figured no one will listen to all 11 minutes of this improvised odyssey today anyways
Needs a true melodic sound to top it off, but I'm happy with this little rhythm section track
Surdu here: I'm pretty proud of this little diddy I threw together tonight. Very little looping, sequencing, or warping. I just laid everything down one by one. This bass sound is a keeper.
Other than my Ohs, all sounds were made from scratch in massive and performed on my MPD18.
As a side note, it's been interesting to watch all the less committed streakers fall off the boat in the last few weeks. We're down to 14 people at this point. Mad respect for everyone that comes out and posts every week. We are the strong!
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edit: I listened to this for literally hours yesterday and I decided the original submission was too compressed and the low end was a little muddled so I made a few minor changes to improve the mix.
An original Surdu Beat. Made relatively quickly. Sounds pretty dumb but I like it.
Frasier and I have talked for a long time about starting a Mario Kart DoubleDash Tribute Band. Sometimes when we hang out we just cue up our favorite courses and leave it on as background music. One of the bests charts in the game is the infamous Rainbow Road. This arrangement is super straight-ahead. I really just wanted to modernize the classic and learn the ins-and-outs of the piece. In future weeks we'll likely revisit this and completely destroy it for the better.
Frasier here. This here is an exclusive look at our creative process, which almost always begins with an open-ended jam. Surdu is on the drum machine, and I'm playing keys with a couple of effects knobs that Surdu programmed in for me. From something like this we'll usually pick out a couple of licks that we like, and build a song structure around that. This week, though, you're in no such luck. Enjoy the full extent of our wicked musical explorations, uncut and uncensored.
Let us know if you like (or hate) any particular section and we might make a beat out of it! Or just remix it yourself—we don't give a shit what you do with our music.
cause football
Surdu here reporting from the Naperville Whole Foods.
Here's a bunch of nonsense we threw together that sounds like music. Its got a kick on 1 and a snare on 3 so I'm sure you'll figure out the things in between.
There's a sample of Chra's "Dark Zone" that I made a siren or something out of. See you next week!
This is an incomplete version, you might look for an update later maybe.
This is Surdu's beat, with borrowed/remixed ideas from fellow streakers. Listen to find out if we paid tribute to your work this week!
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EDIT: Surdu here. I decided to get meta this week. If you recall, in week 1 Novaturtle submitted an electric piano progression called "Sehnsucht". http://streak.club/p/24478/sehnsucht-by-novaturtle. I dropped it into to my Ableton file early on with the mindset of stealing a couple chords for this week's track. Instead, i pretty much just made a soul hip hop arrangement of the progression, with some looping here and there.
I also made textures out of Jef Dam's bleeps and bloops "Yet Crackles" http://streak.club/p/24367/yet-crackles-by-jef-dam. If you hear something shimmery, that's that.
More recognizably, I've thrown in some Rick and Morty quotes with made up words, burping, and ball-licking.
I apologize for not asking for sample permission, but frankly I wouldn't have taken no for an answer. Everyone in this streak is getting sampled by me this year.
There is so much more I would love to do to this track but hey, seven days is seven days.
For those of you unfamiliar with my work, I adhere to a strict "no presets, no sample packs" policy. All non-sampled sounds have to be built from scratch in Massive and this track is no exception. Every kick, every snare, every bleep and bloop in my music is one-of-a-kind. Most people I meet don't possess the patience to do this, so if you ever want me to build you drum kits, let me know. Aight, see you next week.
We spent more than 30 minutes on this one. Imagine yourself in space sitting in a lawnchair on the moon with a pina colada and dope beats and you're on acid and there are bongs everywhere and mike frasier is there playing the keyboard while driving a moon buggy and suddenly space dinosaurs appear, but it's cool, they just want to chill - so you're in the middle of a vape rip competition with all these dinosaurs and you realize that until now you had never truly lived. Moonbeach.
We made this in 30 minutes
This is awesome, almost Death Gripsy in places.