recently i’ve started working on some music with my good friend Chris. We’ve decided to start up a project which we call “Da Kriska Kids” (a combination of his name and my last name, and the fact that is sounds silly). The goal of this project is to laugh at the superficiality of society and people, and especially the state of rap/hip-hop music these days.
we tend to get together about once a week here at my house, in what Chris likes to call “the temple of boom” where we sit around for 4-6 hours working on music. i leave the lyrics up to him, he seems to have a good way of putting his feelings into words, in a very cynical way.
he leaves the music up to me. I enjoy sitting and programming my nord modular and lead 2 synths, and just the general recording process. obvious the “temple of boom” consists of my bedroom and the gear contained within it, but i seem quite happy with what i have, and i’m happy with the way things end up sounding usually.
today we recorded a track that, unlike the last two we recorded, are not hip-hop/rap in style, but rather a depeche mode/NIN sounding industrial track. a current favorite tool of mine are my abbey road studio sample packs for reason. I love the mellotron, so i’ve been using that a lot recently.
the Roland Space Echo got a lot of use today (i decided to use that instead of the delays in Logic, which would hog the CPU) and it sounded great. its a very warm sounding delay, and we used it all over. it makes things “thick”
my new krk vxt4 monitors have already shown what they can do, and this mix is one of the clearest ive heard in a while. speakers really do make the difference.
hopefully we get together again soon and work on more stuff. its great having someone right there while writing and recording to get feedback and suggestions from. i also enjoy having to work faster than when i write on my own, because i don’t have the time to fuck around pointlessly with gear, but rather, dial in sounds, and GO.
