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rpm challenge: subliminal inspiration techniques
By svc | February 4, 2008
Sunday was pretty much a wash, as I got pulled into a non-musical project that lasted all day. There were poodles, raspberries and Latin involved. Don’t ask, it’s complicated. =8)
One thing I did get done on Sunday was putting together an mp3 compilation that’s going to serve as an inspirational soundtrack over the course of the rpm challenge project. It’s a group of songs by artists that have stylistic components and production techniques similar to those I’m looking to use during this project. The idea is to have it on random play constantly when at work/exercise and hope that some of the good ideas stick and set a mood for the songwriting.
The artists on the comp: Aesop Rock, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Alec Empire, Aleph Null, All Out Assault, Ambassador 21, Atari Teenage Riot, Babyland, Behold… the Arctopus, The Berzerker, Big Black, Bloodlet, Botch, Burnt by the Sun, Cop Shoot Cop, Cryptic Slaughter, Cryptopsy, Cubanate, Curse of the Golden Vampire, Dag Nasty, Daughters, Dead Kennedys, Deadguy, Delta 9, dev/null, Die Warzau, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dissecting Table, DJ Spooky, Drumcorps, Dying Fetus, Earth Crisis, Ebola, EC8OR, El-P, The Exploited, Genghis Tron, Hansel und Gretyl, Hatebreed, Heartworm, Hecate, Holy Molar, HPP, Hypnoskull, Ion Dissonance, Kid Dynamite, Kill Memory Crash, Knifehandchop, Leng Tch’e, The Locust, Los Crudos, Melt Banana, Meshuggah, Microwaves, Ministry, Nailbomb, Panacea, The Plasmatics, Poison Idea, Public Enemy, RA, Rabbit Junk, SOD, Schizoid, Shitmat, Sickboy, Slayer, Some Girls, Suicidal Tendencies, Techno Animal, Terrorfakt, Tired of Trying, Today is the Day, Venetian Snares, Voivod, Winterkaelte and Xanopticon.
I’m traditionally a power electronics and noise soundscape artist, but I’m shooting for a sound that’s much more beat oriented and far more aggressive for this project. Punk, metal, power noise and breakcore will all be represented under the thick, oppressive layers of noise and distortion I tend to overapply to everything.
So tonight’s activity was mostly programming drum patterns and experimenting with the guitar sound from the Slayer2 guitar/amp/fx simulator. It’s hard to wrap my brain around guitar-centric metaphors as they relate to MIDI production but I’m learning. Slayer2 is a pretty amazing emulation, and I’m not sure I have the chops quite yet to use it for a “wall of guitar” without it sounding like a huge swampy mess. More as this develops…
Also, I wanted to welcome three other bands that I know into the RPM challenge: I’m Pro Death and I Vote, Cory and Miles, and the Milk Shake Daddy. See you on the other side, guys!
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