Trance And Chillout Mix 2012

Trance And Chillout Mix 2012

So my new project over the past few months (check it out in the link above) has been trying to teach myself how to use a music programming software. I encountered Fruity Loops back when it was still called that almost a decade ago, and never really could make anything of it. I didn't know anyone who was producing at the time and that was right before i had had any musical education with the exception of the recorder they try and teach you in third grade or whatever. And obviously that wasn't enough.

So having given up i moved on to other things, i played in classical orchestras, then small jazz bands, all the while learning music theory and all that. At the beginning my amazement with music and EDM pushed me to try and do that myself, but without anywhere to start i failed and ended up just exploring the genres and really getting myself familiar with all types of music and their similarities and differences. That obsession with listening to music and collecting and discovering continues to this day.

In high school i met a few people who knew how to use their program of choice, be it logic, ableton, or FL studio and i passed it off as something i thought was a cool talent. Like finding out someone can juggle really well, but it didn't make me want to force them to teach me.

So, here i am back at trying my hand at figuring out FL studio. This time around I've found a bunch of resources to refer to, and tools to use to teach myself how to produce or mix music. I'm surprised to say that i can actually build chords and use the keyboard piano with some idea of what i'm trying to do. I chose this program because its always been user friendly and really helps me learn all the components clearly without a whole pile of technical jargon being thrown at me. I have a few others i may go back to and see if i understand them more but FL is enough for me right now. And seeing as Naden creates some of my favorite music with this program at least i know its capable of that and that's enough for me.

The name I've kind of chose for now has been The Vulgar Vagrant. Intentionally a more darker name since that's what i wanted to do more of initially. For the lighter stuff tend to think of it as "V2"'s work in my head. The nickname doesn't come with the image the full name brings with it, so the name works both ways. I didn't run this by anyone but i couldn't really think of who to ask that i wanted knowing i was starting this project. I tend to be pretty secretive of stuff until I've been doing it for a while. I didn't even tell anyone i was writing this blog for like two months. I don't know why writing to the abyss was satisfying enough to me, but sometimes it is. Kind of goes with my quieter personality i guess.

On to this first mix, which was wrought with troubles. For one, the playlist of music i wanted to use wasn't adding in. About 50% of the songs wouldn't decode and just turned up blank. It seemed to be happening to 9 minute plus tracks and that really cut out my choices with trance. Once that happened, the order i put them in went out the window, and the hunt for clips was not helping, more on that later.

Because i couldn't use the order i wanted all my transitions were sloppy to non existent  I feel as if i'm trying to emulate what i hear when i listen to a track, but the musician who made that playlist intentionally hid a bunch of things from the audience to make it sound smooth so i can't use them on my end. Since then I've pulled off approximately two transitions with any sort of dignity. Its definitely something i wish someone would just sit me down and teach me in an afternoon. But oh well, its a process.

Now, at first i thought this was due to not being able to use the songs i wanted, but I've now learned i'm completely incapable of cleanly doing this yet. So this is probably one of my first goals i'd like to learn.

One thing i tried to do with this first mix was add in clips of whatever i thought was fitting. In this endeavor i came across some really freaky shit on YouTube. I was looking for some audio clips of someone talking about relaxing which led me straight to ASMR. This is some weird bottom of the barrel fringe shit right here. you're supposed to sit and listen to this person talk with a directional 3-D microphone about weird shit and tap tap tap on glass or scratch things in their house. The quality of the microphone makes it wicked realistic but the problem is, the closer you get to something being realistic the more you drop into the uncanny valley. This is the feeling you get from things that are too real, but off in a way that makes you feel uneasy. After listening to a bunch of these videos i was audibly screaming into my computer screen and yelling out how weird whatever i was watching was. It really did not sit well with me.

Although the first clip in the mix did work out pretty well, as did the others. I put in a clip of hunter s thompson at 10:45, A Cheech and Chong quote from Up In Smoke that i had a really hard time finding at 20 mins even, and wanted to add in something at the end of some chick saying "isn't that better" or something along those lines but i was too afraid to go back to that ASMR hell hole i was in an hour or two before so i left it how it was.

Its a pretty good list of songs, not completely what i wanted, but its a start.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Original Studio Version)

The first time i visited my brother in norcal years and years ago, i was pretty young. He's a folk artist, and i love his music, but hadn't seen him in so long that i kind of forgot. At the time he was rooming with other kids going to UC Berkeley. One of them was a pianist, and the other a drummer/guitar player. You could really tell it was a musician's apartment because there were instruments everywhere and while sitting and eating in the living room someone would always end up picking something up and a jam session starts out of the blue. It was so cool to spend a week with college guys, just hanging out with them all the time, that was probably the first time i had done so and had a really chill time.

Me and my brother spent until the wee hours of the night catching up and telling stories after the years. And i fell asleep on the couch. When i woke up, he had left for work and one of his roommates was playing the piano. I just laid there on the couch and slowly woke up to the sun shining in though the window, and he had just started this song. It was played through perfectly and that was probably one of the best times i've ever woken up in the morning. It's not often that you get your own private singer to serenade you awake.

I had liked this song before that, it was on my iPod and all, not that i gave it too much play. I don't know which version this is, but its the one i had. But after that one day, this song had a very different meaning to me. Whenever i listen to it i've got all these emotions tied to it and always end up reminiscing through the whole song about times past. At this point i'm barely listening to the words themselves and just feeling the music while my mind drifts, touching on fond memories i've had over the years.

Infected Mushroom - Ratio Shmatio

Ah, Psytrance.. This brings me back to those dark times long ago when my taste in music was horridly narrow. Which is all thanks to this band right here. I would go weeks listening solely to them and nothing else. I had every song they've ever made or remixed and was counting the days until they released another. They were even the first electronic music artist i went to go see live. I guess its not all bad, because being so obsessed with them really kind of immersed me in the culture, whereas before i just sort of liked EDM songs here and there. There was a time at my darkest hour where i could name the song from the first ten seconds being played out of any of their 100+..

A few things that set psytrance apart from the rest of the trance-ish genres, are the really complicated melodies, high energy fast beats (which is different from trance for sure), it's got lots and lots of different interesting sounds, constant breaks and morphs in the basic tone of the song and a few other things like sounds bouncing from left to right and such. I really have noticed that i tend to gravitate to music that has a lot of energy and psytrance counts for sure. Practically every song you hear is going to have the SAME kick/drum beat, it almost is required for it to count as psytrance. The thing is, there's so much going on throughout the song that you wouldn't ever think it was repetitive.

Something interesting about them, Its a full band- guitar, bass, drums, singer and dj all together. One of their most famous songs has acoustic guitar throughout it, and others you'd almost think was metal until the beat dropped. I think its a really interesting sound to mix, and they've got backgrounds in both trance and the metal scene. It also makes for a wicked awesome performance live.

A great friend of mine is really into mainstream music, and she does like EDM a bit but she really tends to lean toward popular stuff. One of her favorite songs of all time (which really surprises me) is IM's song "Sa'eed". She got to see them this year and they happened to play it and she was so happy. Sa'eed is a great song also, its got really awesome vocals that you don't get to hear on this one. You should go give it a listen after this one. That, or Muse Breaks, that's another of my favorites.

Hed PE - Other Side

Hed P.E. (HPE) is one of my dirty little secrets. Not that i haven't told anybody that i listen to them, i have. But i wouldn't just sit in my room and play it out loud. Mostly because they have really vulgar lyrics. I know that swearing and all that wouldn't bother anyone i know, its the talk about beating and raping women, doing drugs, and things like that that i think would scare them. I can't tell if some of it is satire or not but regardless to anybody else i'm sure it would sound weird.

HPE is a rapcore band. Rapcore (sometimes called G-punk, but i call it rapcore) is heavy metal mixed with rap. I've listened to artists like Bionic Jive and HPE for more than half a decade now and they both are that type of music. (They don't sound anything alike though). Interestingly they both have political themes although Bionic Jive's has to do with corruption in america and racism, while HPE talks all about conspiracy theories and generally sound crazy in the head. I love the idea of this genre. Instead of screamed lyrics like metal, there are actual verses and such and on the other end of the spectrum instead of a play button that an artist is rapping over its an actual band. I don't know why it isn't more popular, HPE has had some small success but there are no other artists really doing it today. One of HPE's band members is a dj even (if i remember correctly).

As much as i listen to them (which is A LOT) the only times i've ever heard anyone enjoy listening to them was when i played this song. I played a few others for people a couple times and i really could tell they were not interested in it at all.

So, after talking about their style all this time, now for this song. This is actually SO uncharacteristic of HPE that every once and a while i go try and look up the song to see if its a cover or not. It seriously even sounds like its a whole other band and singer and someone accidentally put HPE's name on it. It isn't anything they would make and isn't like any other song they have. Its almost as if it were "divine inspiration" and the song HAD to be made and they were guided to write it.

I always feel like i've heard this song from a long time ago, like BEFORE i had ever even heard of HPE at all. Lots of other people say that as well, like they feel like they already know the lyrics even though the band has never existed to them at all. It really baffles me why all of this is true but for the life of me i can't figure out why. Its just a special song they have and i just accept it as that. I really love it, its got hints of a sublime feel. And an acoustic guitar that i don't hear much in their music. Its got a good message as well. Despite HPE's vulgarness, beneath all the filth there really are a lot of good messages to be found. Granted you DO have to look hard for them.

"Not all those who have eyes, will see what i'm saying. Not all those who have ears will hear a note that we're playing." -HPE  "Atlantis A.D."

Noisia - Could This Be

A new song by noisia! This one isn't out yet but it'll be featured on their new album coming out in a few weeks. The single, Tommy's Theme, is pretty good. Its much slower but its quite catchy. Its coming out on the mau5trap label, which.. surprises me. I knew deadmau5 was trancey but inches more and more towards dubstep with every song. But to be the one to release a noisia song is a pretty big step in that direction.

One of my favorite artists of all time, these guys have done SO much work. They produced Hadouken!'s whole recent album. And have done music for movies, DDR and so many other things. They have their own sound which has always been definable as their own style but they've definitely gone darker (which i'm quite a fan of) lately. The beginning is kind of chill but still has a lot of energy. But i really I like this song because of what starts at 1:24, the drop is nice and all. But that crisp rim shot instead of a snare is awesome. You really rarely ever hear that in tracks.

It hadn't really occurred to me that they were making a full length album when i heard the single, but now that i think about it i'm really excited for it to come out. It's going to have some great work on it. I'll have to take another look at that mau5trap label now that i have an idea of what they're releasing. It would be awesome to have that whole collection on my iPod. I'd probably set it as a playlist and come back to it on random all the time.

I started writing this after hearing it only once, so the more i listen to it the more i hear. Im sure by the end of tomorrow ill have listened to it tons because i absolutely love it.

Fenech-Soler - Lies (Doctor P Remix)

Doctor P and Flux Pavilion are the two artists i want to talk about today. They both got together to start a label called circus records a little bit ago, and i noticed a change in their music since then. They really stepped up to the bar a few years ago and started making music that was really good quality. Flux Pavilion made it to 56 on the UK's top 100 singles with his track 'bass cannon' (there's a pretty cool music video along with that too). I can't wait to see what's to come from both of these guys in the future, because it seems like every other day that i'm on youtube they've released a new hit.

I was dead set on doing a Flux Pavilion song, seeing as they're getting real huge. I just met some people a few weeks ago who were in love with his midnight run song. And that's an excellent song, but this one i didn't notice how much i was listening to until i was trying to make this decision. I haven't ever really skipped over this song every time it comes up in a playlist for basically as long as i've had it. So its gotten quite a few plays.

This is pretty far from hits Doctor P was making several years ago. Yes, sweet shop is a classic, and i will always like that song, but i have to admit it sounds really generic. This song is different, I love the lyrics, and the melody. I really, really like the singing Fenech Soler does on the original, but the plain drumming in the background leaves me wanting more. That could be because i heard this version first and this one has so much more going on. But i just find it more interesting than the original, its as if he re-added parts that were missing in the first place. Of course i know that his type of music would be more about him and his voice, and Doctor P's remix has a lot to do with the beat and other elements in the music, so inherently fenech's is going to have less to it. But its so goddamn PLAIN. Differences here and there are one thing, but this just sounds so extreme to me.

Sometimes i wonder if there's any jealousy involved between artists. I think there has got to be someone out there who had their song remixed only to realize the other person's version is far, far better (i can think of quite a few examples). Do they get angry that someone else messed with their hard work? Do they go around saying things like ''oh those techno freaks ruined another one of my songs again'' to each other? I have no idea. I'm sure that there are tons of people who LOVE when a song of theirs is remixed perfectly. But what about those people inevitably on the other end of the spectrum. What if people prefer to listen to Doctor P's version of the song, but fenech is the one who's talent is in the singing. Is that something he would care about? I don't know, these are things i wonder.

Tritonal Feat Soto - Piercing Quiet (Air Up There Remix) (HD)

I apologize for the week or so i took off. I have a final tomorrow and haven't had any time at all to devote to this. I have been choosing songs i want up here though so there's a list that should make it onto here in the near future.

This is a kind of recent favorite of mine, i haven't listened to it too much lately, but i heard it first just a few months ago. One thing I've learned about trance is that if i'm going to really get an idea of what the song really is like I'm going to need to devote the 7-10 minutes to how long it inevitably is, to listen to the whole thing. If you just skip to the middle, or listen to the beginning and stop there so much build up and other parts that you've missed along the way that you can't possibly have an opinion on the song.

Its just due to the nature of the music and this song is a great example of that. The first thirty seconds basically NOTHING is going on, its about as simple of a beat as you could possibly have. It reminds me of that beat everyone makes with their mouth when they're imitating techno. It gets slightly more interesting after that, still very simple though. And melodies and vocalizations are introduced very slowly. I like that when the verse comes in, the beat draws back to emphasize her voice, which is quite nice. (Christina Soto is famous for featuring on some great trance tracks). And i think the melody in the middle perfectly compliments her, credit for this is due to Air Up There, the guys doing the remix. I think the tweaks done by them really fits her singing style more. I like their version tons, but i do have the original as well because i can't decide which one is better. The original is definitely more upbeat, and more danceable. But this one has a heavier beat and is smoother sounding.

You have to refrain from "getting bored" or something like that in the beginning and concentrate on what the artist is painting with his music. It's all necessary to invoke the emotion he intends. I think its something you have to get used to, because some types of music just get to the point. Where commonly with trance it's the opposite. Its definitely where the songs in this genre get their length.

I've found this song and others are really great for background music. Ill play it while studying or doing other things where my mind is elsewhere, because its not too distracting. But at the same time it has enough to kind of half-listen to. It really lets you read (for example) and pay attention to the material, and there isn't an uncomfortable silence or anything. Late night driving is another favorite time to listen to trance for these reasons as well.

If you're interested the song i very nearly did in place of this one is Robert Babicz - Dark flower (Joris Voorn Remix). Another really great track i actually heard about the same time as piercing quiet.

TC - Get That Girl

This is a hate it or love it type of genre. Jump-up. A lot of the guys i know in the electronic scene who know anything about dnb and stuff shun it like none other. They think it sounds too childish and takes no skill to make. I disagree of course, although i see where they're coming from. Because yes, the majority of songs like this i don't like either (which i hate to say but its kind of true). But i don't write off the whole genre like some people i know. TC is like a half and half between jump up and just plain ol dnb.

This whole album, which i have its pretty good, is kind of a project between him and jakes. Jakes is an MC from the UK i believe. Most of what he does on this album is actual singing and rapping though, which is definitely not the same at all as MCing. So i commend him on his efforts.

You can really tell it flows well between the slow and fast parts. They wouldn't sound like the same song if heard separately, but the build up is awesome. Its kind of interesting how quick you can go from chill to hyped up. I would imagine that's hard to pull off correctly because the faster tempo portion could seem jarring, but i don't really get that feeling from this song.

I only really was heavily into TC for a few weeks but i really binged during that time. Everyone else i knew was listening to hardcore techno along the lines of hardstyle and electro and stuff, and i was too but TC was like my own dose of dnb that i got in between rocking out with my friends. I moved on quick, like i do. But i haven't forgotten about him because there are some dope tracks in my library by him.

There are some classic jump up songs everyone knows, but other than that i hear very little about this music. I don't want to say its 'dead' but more like it was an experiment in sound in the first place, and it'll keep it's die hard fans but people will move on to newer things or try other sounds and see what comes of them. Isn't that how we got to this point in music anyways?

Daft Punk - Digital Love

I've always loved this song, its my favorite from daft punk by far. Its also one of those i come back to every once and a while and forget how much i love it.

I first heard it when watching Interstellar 5555. That's an animated movie with hardly any sounds other than daft punk's discovery album. It plays all the way though and tells a story, I've really enjoyed it every time i watched it. It was done by a group of Japanese people i believe. The first time i watched the movie i wasnt' completely familiar with daft punk except for their biggest hits, so i was in for a nice surprise. This music video happens to be the part in the movie with this song. Most of (if not all, im not sure) of the songs on discovery are just clipped from the movie and used as the music video.

I watched the movie maybe two days before i left for a two week camp many summers ago. But when i got there i found out they weren't going to allow any electronics at all. My phone and iPod remained off the whole time. Luckily i had been listening to digital love the entire car ride up and it stayed in my head the whole time.

Needless to say, being addicted to listening to music every waking moment meant i was dying to listen to SOMETHING. I met a kid named JD and we became really good friends. He introduced me to Dj Sharpnel and i introduced him to pendulum, among others. We both chatted about music and stuff all the time and we're still great buds. Talking about it probably held us over until we could go listen to music ourselves i think.

When i finally got home i didn't pack or eat or anything. All i did was go look up music JD had told me to get, and every other song i was listening to was digital love. It was like getting a drink of water after going thirsty for so long. I know i would have liked the song just as much if i hadn't had to go without music for so long, but because i did, im so glad i heard it. Because it gave me something to hum and sing along to in my head during the trip.

DC Breaks - Horror

I've heard a lot of sweet clips thrown in jungle tracks like pendulum's masochist. But this one is currently my favorite. I don't know where its from, a quick search comes up with nothing. So its possible its an original for the song, which if so, its brilliant. I know a jungle track when i hear one, they're just so definable. And jungle's been around a long long time. Longer than jump up, dubstep and drumstep and all those other sub-genres.

If i try and think back to the days where i first was listening to dnb, jungle was in its dying throes. Its basically what gave birth to today's dnb. I was big into Andy C, the god of dnb. He got into the game early where he was using all the sounds characteristic of jungle and making new songs that didn't conform to the standard. They were more electronic and a lot like what you'd hear today. He went on to make one of the biggest record labels for the genre i believe, and totally had a hand in the entire movement of the scene.

But you still see people mixing jungle live, its great for dancing and i'm sure its awesome fun to spin. Another thing that carried over from jungle was vocals. Jungle is quite similar to reggae, and they used to have something called ragga vocals on top of the tracks. At any show you'd go to today you will hear an MC singing exactly like that, with the exception of live bands like pendulum, but i know dj sets of pendulum are definitely going to have it. 

Unknown Error - The Yearning

This screen has been sitting on my laptop in the background for more than a week now. I don't know why i haven't, or didn't want to get around to it. But here it is, the yearning.

This is a song by Unknown Error, I've talked about him before when i did a song by apex. They're actually the same guy, somewhere along the line he decided on a name change and has been going by apex ever since. I kind of think there's a change in style when you listen to songs where he goes by one or the other. I don't know if that's because the unknown error stuff is older, or if that's intentional.

He's on the lifted music label, started by Chris renegade and Spor. I used to listen to all of their podcasts. They're a small group of artists who release just the greatest music. Evol intent and ewun are two more artists off that label. If you've heard of those guys you'd know that they're all usually producers of some quite hard tracks. This guy not so much, i guess he's their token liquid guy.

Back when i hung out with everyone into this scene i had one friend who was absolutely obsessed with it. We had a running joke with each other that we all had theme songs. And this was undoubtedly his. So it definitely got played tons when we hung out. Now its been a long time since I've seen them, but randomly i got linked to this song a week or two ago. When i listened to it i had a huge dose of nostalgia, it must have been two or more years since i last heard it played even once. I had totally forgotten it existed. I'm so glad i got to listen to it again, even though there are some good and bad feelings that come along with this song.

Now, it may have been HIS theme song, but i really love this track. The warm steady bass, and the melody that sounds oriental. Its just a really relaxing song. I could sit in a dark room with a bunch of people. No words, just enjoying the music. A lot of electronic music is over the top or loud sounding, or at least that what i would imagine someone who doesn't like it would say. (i just say it has energy) But i think most people would even like this one, its just simple beats and awesome melody, if you open your mind to it, its the perfect song to seed your imagination. I find myself daydreaming while listening to it all the time.

Camo & Krooked - The Lesson (ft. Skittles) (Original Version)

I oughta teach you a lesson.

So Camo and Krooked have an album out called "cross the line". It came out last week and the tracks on it are excellent. They have a few singles from it that have been out for a while, which, to be honest i haven't listened to. But i know i will get around to it eventually, because I'm really pleased with their more recent stuff. I wrote down a little reminder to myself to get the whole album and I'm pretty good about going through my lists so maybe you'll see another from the album in the future.

If you've read some of the other posts I've written you probably know why i like this song. I'm pretty sure i have a sweet spot for vocals along this line. I'm just a sucker for em. And aside from a few exceptions such as the Foreign Beggars, TC and Jake, and some randomly featured MC's (I'm probably forgetting some but that's to the point) You don't really see much of that and i really hope it becomes a theme because its just great. When you see anyone like this live there's an MC singing over the track WITHOUT FAIL, but they're scatting and doing freestyle and just hyping the crowd up. I want to see more of real full songs and performances from those guys. I really feel that's a great direction for this music.

I also like how well the lines tie into the drops. Like when he says "I told you i'd teach you a lesson" the drop right after just works. And the bridge with that great chorus ties into the harder part just as well. Its definitely a really well done track. It keeps rolling throughout, there's never a moment where it loses energy or your interest. I heard it just a few days ago and I'm already forcing myself not to listen to it too much  so i don't make myself sick of it too quickly.

So hello... fellow.... welcome to the gallows... I'm here to teach you a lesson.

SubVibe - DarkHearted (HD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu7hz91PTBo

This song just struck me as something quite true to the genre. Its just no frills DnB. They hail from (surprise surprise) the UK, where the scene is huge, and they're not horribly popular or anything. They just make stuff that really hits home as stuff that i think i would hear years ago before dubstep and drumstep and jump up and ALLL these other genres popping up. Don't get me wrong i'm fully into all that stuff, but its nice to have a throwback like this to kind of remind you where it all started.

Its real common to have clips from movies or things like that edited in instead of vocals to kind of set the tone of the song. You don't want to have singing, or vocals on top of the music but you still need something to add to it. Its real common with things like hardstyle and classic Dnb. Though you will see it with lots of other genres too. This particular one I've seen in another hardsyle song by headbanger and omar that uses this and other clips. That's another good one by the way, albeit really on the hardcore side, its called "Are U Afraid Of The Dark?"

Its the basic drum beat, the electronic melody you hear all over the place, and structure and builds that are nice.  Although this isn't to say all this makes the song boring, because far from it, there's definitely enough in this song to make it a hit. And there are parts throughout that peak your interest. They're a great team, i would definitely go see a show of theirs if given the chance. I was impressed with it, especially nowadays where you don't see a lot of medium to small time artists making songs that aren't what they think is "innovative" or something like that. They get some decent exposure too, which is awesome because i think everyone should hear songs like this so they understand where other artists are coming from when they start branching out.

Of course jungle is the other half of the oldies I'm referring to, but jungle has more reggae roots where this has electronic roots. They're both two halves of the same spectrum though.

Vaski- You Wouldn't Understand

So i have to admit back when i was discovering Dnb i grew a deep hatred for dubstep. I don't know what it was, but except for the one chase and status 'saxon' song i refused to listen to dubstep (and even then i only had that song because of my love for chase and status, not because i liked it, though i do now) This was at the same time where on any given day i probably listened to more then 5 hours of dnb. Now my closest friends at the time were right along there with me. Mostly because they would ride with me in my car, and that's what i wanted to hear on my system.

But one day i was over at a friend's house with a whole bunch of people, and i hopped in my car with a few of them to go pick someone up and a guy in the back said "let me handle the music". So i turned it up and paid attention to my driving. Having avoided all dubstep i had no idea what was coming. It built up and it just so happened that everyone was really intently listening to the song, and right at the drop the guy leaned forward and with his head just to the right of mine he said "NAW YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND" and then I learned exactly why i was about to love this genre, the drop.

He had obviously listened to the song hundreds of times (like i have now) because every time the singer went UH! he knew exactly where it was. I swear during that car ride we were all going crazy. Afterwards i told him how much i used to hate dubstep and he handed me his iTouch and said educate yourself. It was like discovering a whole new planet and culture i had never heard before.

Characteristic of vaski's older stuff, like this song, his remix of sandstorm, and my personal favorites murder and bailout- it had deeper bass than anyone else out there at the time. You can tell his newer stuff has more vocals and melodies which is great for being catchy, but i feel like he really shined when he showed what he could do with just a bass line alone.

I have seen him live once. And it was exactly how you would think it would be. It was so heavy that when you walked into the general area of the stage (not even the front or anything) Your breathing became ragged with the air vibrating in your lungs. Your vision blurred. And unlike the other stages where you could feel your clothes vibrating on top of your skin, you could actually feel your skin move. It was like the bass was pressing the air around you so hard it was pressing up against your skin. And that's not even the half of it, the lights, crowd and everything else just completed the experience. Ill never forget what its like to see an artist like that perform.

I Need a Dollar (Remix)

I've been in a rap mood lately, and i don't normally listen to rap such as lil wayne or anything like that. But i absolutely love artists like wax. He's sort of a youtube artist, he makes videos and songs and posts them on youtube. As of lately he's signed to a record deal and touring the country doing shows which is great for him. He also makes comedy shorts that he posts, and you should go through his channel and see some of them, i find them hilarious.

This is a cover of the i need a dollar song, and it really plays into the theme of most of his music, about money and struggling. I think i like this version better, though I'm probably biased because i love wax himself so much. Dumbfounded is featured on this track, i did his up in the air song a while back. Whenever the two of them collaborate they call themselves "clockwise". And they've done quite a few together.

I love the lines in this song if you give it a close listen. They're very clever. I've listened to tons of both of their music and have really appreciated all of their musical talents pertaining to the music and the lyrics.

The Procussions-Simple song

I first heard the procussions through my brother, he's probably heard and listened to every song a thousand times from this genre. I guess its the era he came from, when he was growing up was when all of this music was big. Its still around and artists come out in this genre all the time, but they get no exposure because the general public doesn't listen to this type of stuff anymore. Its a shame too because that's one of the reasons this group is no longer around. Money reasons, illegal downloading, and lack of exposure forced them to disband about three years ago. Some of them went on to write music alone (one of them gets critic ratings of 4.5/5 stars on his work even today, which says something about his talents) and another is pursuing his artwork and focusing more on that.

The music is less beats and has more jazz influences, and the words have a lot more meaning behind them than something that's just catchy. I miss music like this sometimes. I never really listened to it when i was younger and now that its not popular i wish it were. Guys like atmosphere have kind of broken through that and made it, but people who like atmosphere don't go out and find all these other artists like the people under the stairs and the procussions, and they should.

On the audio canvas stands this man with his hands like a mantis

submerged in the word like Atlantis to plant this seed, 

we feeding of the roots of David

and finally freed from enslavement 

see this is where the pavement meets the path

the power principles of purity are unmasked

at last our direction is that of the outcast

outlasting temptation like the thirty day fast

redeemed from the past renamed in the present

i sing to the king who came as a peasant 

he's offering that pleasant state of humility

the light of the world with the strength and the ability

 to transform norm to extraordinary

making prophets out of prosecutors, if necessary

and rags to revolution, poetry from pollution

felon to family man, problem to solution

and the solution is clear the revolution is near

no more confusing people with fear

the constitution appears to make freedom a right

but you know its only found in the sunlight

i say you know its only found in the son right?

i got one love, one aim, and one fight

c'mon...

at a loss for words i heard something in my mind sing (la la la la la)

without a care in the world i stand firm on a cloud singing (la la la la la)

waking up at the dawn, i had a song in my heart it goes (la la la la la)

i found peace in a vision of love and yo it sounds like (la la la la la)

Kyza - Go (Bar 9 Remix)

Long time favorite of mine, a remix of Kyza- go by Bar 9.

This one reminds me a lot of a song i talked about a few weeks ago, 'warning'. Its got a really hard dub vibe and fast rapping lyrics. I wish i knew more songs along this type of genre because i thoroughly enjoy it. This is a song where im always playing it one or two volume levels too high, and it was always a favorite in my car when i had a sound system in it.

I don't have much to say about this one, but enjoy!

Netsky - Tomorrow's Another Day VIP

Finally i'm back. Had a long week with homework, classes and social life catching up to me. Well i'm at work now and i don't need to be doing anything really, so lets talk about some music!

This is netsky, he does some of my favorite liquid dnb songs. All of the ones I've heard are always a perfect mix of relaxing and smooth. He really doesn't vary from that as far as I've seen. But he does this so well that i would hope he continues in his style.

Netsky is one of those artists where its hard to dislike any of his songs in particular but really easy to love certain ones. I could be in any type of music mood, and if netsky comes on through shuffle or i see it in a play list, ill listen through it because i love it. I picked this particular song only because it was the last one i listened to from him. A quick YouTube search comes up with tons of great music by him, its all worth a listen.

Mewithoutyou - Messes of men

I do not exist, we faithfully insist...

Hi, little life update this week. I've got a lot on my plate with school and stuff, but i'll try and make up for it this weekend with a bunch of songs.

Until then--