Posts Tagged ‘downtempo’

Old Tracks: Love Theme

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Posted 19 Dec 2009 — by karl
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Today’s journey into the archives is one that I had forgotten how much I liked.  “Love Theme” is certainly one of the more melodic songs I’ve ever composed.

“Love Theme”, like several songs I’ve produced, was inspired by what I imagine I might have written for a film score.

Karl D – Love Theme

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12/26/09 – Whoops, forgot the download link. -KD

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Posted 27 Nov 2009 — by karl
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We’ve got some seriously spooky dubstep on tap today, and its melodic wobbly bassline is in the spotlight.  The lack of variation in the wobble means this isn’t the most complex or “intelligent” dubstep track, but I made the choice to keep it simple.   Other sounds put in just for the sake of excitement would have threatened the chilled-out nature of this track.

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Karl D – Evening(Karl’s Sunset mix)

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Posted 21 Sep 2009 — by karl
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The next remix candidate for the upcoming EP(which will be titled Electronic Monk) is Evening, another one of my favorites from “Existential Funk”.

This EP is quickly evolving into a series of experiments on the tempo of the remixed tracks.  The Modify Your Mind EP changed the remixed songs dramatically, but without much change to their tempo.  The first song remixed for this new EP, “The Exchange”, gained around 50 BPM in it’s remix.

“Evening” is a fascinating track to me in it’s original form because on different days, it sounds different to me.  Some days, it sounds fast and vibrant, others, slow and paced.  “Evening” loses 15 BPM in this mix(down to 110 from 125).  This remix is decidedly slow and chilled out, and generates a much different listening experience.  Although the original “Evening” is meant to be enjoyed much later in the evening, the “Sunset Mix” is meant, as the title suggests, to be enjoyed closer to dusk, cold drink in hand.

Karl D – Evening(Karl’s Sunset mix)

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Posted 08 Sep 2009 — by karl
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The lead melody in here is one I created originally for a much faster tempo.  I put down the basics of the track and since I didn’t really know how I wanted it to develop, I let it sit for awhile.

After a few days of inactivity with this particular beat, I found myself thinking about the melody at a much slower pace.  I slowed it down significantly and changed the tune from what would have likely been kind of a incoherent turnoff to a pretty effective, creepy sounding downtempo track.

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Posted 03 Sep 2009 — by karl
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There’s a word that describes art that is meant to be painful or disturbing.  I can’t remember the word, but an example of this would be the film “Funny Games“.  Although brutally violent, most of the violence in the movie happens off screen, which the director intended to be the “trick” – not showing any violence while disturbing the viewer because of the amount of it.

Similarly, I intended for this tune to be a little more difficult of a listen.  The tension manufactured by the dissonant chords is meant to be somewhat uncomfortable. The piano is one of the only consonant sounds in the mix.

Although I hope none of the music on this site evokes any kind of response similar to watching “Funny Games”, I hope you can appreciate this track”s significance in it’s own “ugliness”.

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Posted 24 Aug 2009 — by karl
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Today’s offering consists of some chilled-out dubstep that I find has a mysterious quality. The deep bells that start near the beginning was one of the last elements I put in here, but I think the effect really nails down the rhythm and melody, and supplements the bass in the low end department.

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Posted 25 Jul 2009 — by karl
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I liked the solemn, deep quality of the main instrument in here(The deep bassoon-like sound in the background).  This track quickly goes from downtempo chiller to drum and bass thriller.  With the drum and bass part, I wanted it to have a more “techy” quality than the rest of the track.  The computer bleeps near the end and the creepy pad really give that half of the track some great contrast.

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Old Tracks: Why I Hate Dante

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Posted 10 Jun 2009 — by karl
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Through my adolescence I became fascinated with the works of Dante Aligheri.  I read the Inferno a couple times in high school out of my own interest, and I continued to read it in my college years.   I have read multiple translations and have become somewhat of an Inferno scholar by doing so.

Spending as much time as I did reading the book, it became a natural source of inspiration for me.  Unfortunately, this inspiration came about in the form of terrible recurring nightmares about Hell, damnation, and the Devil.  A day came in about 2001, when I was just getting into music production, that I was able to focus all of this emotion into a song that I called “Why I Hate Dante”.  I finished the song in an afternoon, and I don’t remember doing much of it.  Looking back, creating the song was somewhat of a mystical experience for me.

This song remains to be some of my best work.  It has a strong trip-hop groove that evolves throughout the song until it finally reaches critical mass and turns into a thrilling drill and bass monster.  This is one of my longer works but I guarantee the tension justifies the entire length of the track.

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