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randombeats.com Mix Series 03: Night Terrors – The Sound of Minimal Drum and Bass

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Posted 15 Mar 2012 — by karl
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About once a month for the last year or so, I wake up in the night with what I understand to be night terrors.  These small episodes can best be described as “waking nightmares”.  More common in children, they actually started for me in adulthood. Although quite shocking at the moment, I tend to get more entertainment than terror from remembering that I did something ridiculous the night before(like searching the room for giant animals).

Night terrors can be terrifying, vivid and yet fleeting.  The tracks compiled for this mix all fit that description as well.  Some of the tracks(the untitled ones) are less fully-formed compositions, and more of a coagulation of electronic elements.  These will never be released singularly – they will only be available as part of this mix.

You will be terrified.  You will be thrilled.  When it’s over, you will have no idea what happened.  This is Night Terrors. 

  1. (0:00) (untitled)
  2. (1:30) (untitled)
  3. (4:10) (untitled)
  4. (6:00) Karl D – Aeon
  5. (10:00) Karl D – 3_07(From random beats, vol. 3)
  6. (12:00) (untitled)
  7. (14:25) Karl D – Turbulence
  8. (17:21) Karl D – Momentary(Dark Breaks Mix)
  9. (20:26) Karl D – Hiding in Plain Sight

Karl D Presents – Night Terrors(Download – Right click and select “Save As”)

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Karl D – Hiding in Plain Sight

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Posted 02 Dec 2011 — by karl
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Not a moment too soon, some drum and bass for life.remixed.

Not much to say about this one, except it’s another one that almost didn’t get made.  The keyboard stabs came late and helped finish the job.

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Karl D – Hiding in Plain Sight

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Karl D – Aeon

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Posted 12 Feb 2011 — by karl
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Check out this just finished, spaced-out drum and bass track!

“Aeon” is in the same vein of “Things You’ll Need to Know”.  It drones on and on with a persistent synth in the background, while a complex drum loop is brought in early to give this song some “intelligent” depth. Overall, there’s some influence of minimal techno quite obviously(and very intentionally) present here.

Very little of my drum and bass work is appropriate for a dancefloor or has a definite climax, but I think the track rolls along nicely.

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Karl D – Aeon

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Old Tracks: Funk Phenomena

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Posted 10 May 2010 — by karl
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An early experiment with jungle, using a well-known Redman sample.  I love the big bass hits in here, and the keyboard gives a really old-school feel.  Lots of complex amen breaks, from a time when I thought it was important to make them that complex.

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Karl D – Funk Phenomena

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5_05

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Posted 04 Jan 2010 — by karl
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After a short break, the random beats series is back!

Granted, this is not the longest random beat in this volume, but I think the livelihood of this very old-school sounding jungle roller makes up for its few faults.   I really like the fills that come in during the second half of the track.

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Posted 17 Nov 2009 — by karl
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A sample for the trumpet sound here was not at my immediate disposal.  I knew how it needed to sound, but my small jazz collection prohibits the availability of such samples.  Thus, I had to synthesize it.  I object to the use of synthesized brass in most cases, but the DSK Brass plug in gave it some life.  I thought it complemented the growly bass quite nice here.

If you’re an independent electronic musician, I strongly reccomend the DSK collection linked above.  I use many of the VST plugins, and there are some very strong synths available.  I believe many are sample based.

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Note:  I just found out the official DSK site is closing its doors!  How sad!  Fortunately, you can still get the plugins here.

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Karl D – The Exchange(Drum and Bass mix)

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Posted 29 Aug 2009 — by karl
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I felt so passionately about the last remix EP I did for “Existential Funk“, I decided I’d continue.  There is plenty more material to remix, and lots more material that needed a platform to be released on(i.e. Toxin).

The EP will be released similarly to “Modify Your Mind”, by releasing the individual songs one by one in the main blog.  Once the EP is complete, all the songs will be available in a ZIP file in the download section.

The first remix that will be included in this EP is one of my favorite tracks from “Existential Funk”(Stream here):  “The Exchange”.  “Exchange” was literally the last track I completed, and it was done within a day.  Like some of the other remixed tracks from the last EP, this track is taking on a vivid metamorphosis.  The ambient trip-hop drama is transformed into a dubby, introspective drum and bass track in this remix.

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4_03

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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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