Electronic music thread

LostLegend said:
Funilly enough, when Robert Nickson (the guy behind RNX) sent me the stems for the original track, the synth pad stem/multitrack that I've used in the breakdown was named 'Vangelis Pad' :lol:
I believe he owns a Moog analogue synth of some sort (a Matriarch I think) which he made it on.
But yeah, I think the original track was very Vangelis/Bladerunner inspired.


Digital only for now, sadly.
Out on Beatport and all the streaming serviced tomorrow.
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You keep up the production, you might have enough together to do a limited run on vinyl on bandcamp. With support from Rich they'll fly out.
 



Drama alert with Chicane accusing Calvin Harris of stealing the riff from 'Offshore' for his latest tune.

Problem is, I don't think Nick/Chicane is being entirely honest here. The video looks/sounds damning, but a professional mixing/mastering engineer called 'BtheLick' (Also a fantastic content creator for us music production nerds) has broken down in a very interesting video why all is not what it seems here.

 

LostLegend said:


Drama alert with Chicane accusing Calvin Harris of stealing the riff from 'Offshore' for his latest tune.

Problem is, I don't think Nick/Chicane is being entirely honest here. The video looks/sounds damning, but a professional mixing/mastering engineer called 'BtheLick' (Also a fantastic content creator for us music production nerds) has broken down in a very interesting video why all is not what it seems here.

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Initially there seems that the notes and arrangement have been 'sampled', granted to create the loop such as it lands in Chicane's machine perfectly in time.

Now I happen to remember the story of how the vocal was applied.

Offshore feat Power Circle. Offshore 97 'A little love a little life'. (Yes it's in the mix, it's another sample from 'Total recall' that you just catch (Usura)).


Back in the bad old days, the technology wasn't there, so it was stretching tapes, and reducing parts of the original to then make fit to the vocal. Fascinating stuff to the trance nerds of the time.

Get to the production pro in a bit. ;)
 
Rita_Poon said:
Initially there seems that the notes and arrangement have been 'sampled', granted to create the loop such as it lands in Chicane's machine perfectly in time.
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Definitely wasn't sampled as there's no way you could change the chord voicings and modulate from major to minor as CH's does in his track. You can't do that with samples.

You can change the root note of a sample by pitching it, but if you sample a minor chord for example, it will always be a minor chord no matter what note you pitch it to (That's the whole science behind 'Rave Chords')
You are always stuck with the original voicing. - that's what the argument is in the vid in regards to that.

I think it's likely CH was inspired by Offshore and they definitely have a similar vibe, but as the video says, you cannot copyright a 'vibe'
 

LostLegend said:
Definitely wasn't sampled as there's no way you could change the chord voicings and modulate from major to minor as CH's does in his track. You can't do that with samples.

You can change the root note of a sample by pitching it, but if you sample a minor chord for example, it will always be a minor chord no matter what note you pitch it to (That's the whole science behind 'Rave Chords')
You are always stuck with the original voicing. - that's what the argument is in the vid in regards to that.

I think it's likely CH was inspired by Offshore and they definitely have a similar vibe, but as the video says, you cannot copyright a 'vibe'
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It's another track. I'm in the memory banks as we type.
 

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