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living sounds · Post by **living sounds** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:43 am

Nice tune. But the drums are badly in need of some serious processing, at least if you want this to sound anything like hip hop.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:56 pm

I'm really not the person to critique this as a hip hop masterpiece as I'm no afficionado. However, I really liked this.

As I was listening to it I imagined that the guy was rapping about sun and beach for some reason. Then I read some comments and saw that it was fairly common to associate this song with summer.

I really liked the way the rapping was done, very smooth and laid back and the music suited it really well.

I liked it.

Regards
Caleb

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:16 am

Max el Belga wrote:The girl says : veo, feo (Spanish); I see, ugly (something ugly).
I've tried to contact the rapper, but his internet seems to be 'off' right now...
Brasilian is very melodic and perfect to sing, because of having the accents on the right place, like in English.

Not knowing the meaning of the words keeps indeed the 'mistery' around it.

Personally I'm more interested in the sounds of the words and the way they're pronounced. That's why I thought at first the guy was rapping about food in the chorus (cotelets and steaks, but those seem to be nick names for girls ).

I like a lot doing a collab with Liqih; he's got such a fine 'nose' for nice harmonies. It's quite funny the things we come up with now, having played both guitar on the streets (when we were young and irresitably handsome).

Cheers,

Max... .. .

Thanks Max so you can call me "chord sniffer" !? <grin>

About: 'Personally I'm more interested in the sounds of the words', that's
often the same to me, I think it's also for I'm from Italy and here we listen
to music in many languages, - as the italian music is mosltly crap -,
of course 90% is english lyrics music, but spanish and french are strong too.
For instance Bod Dylan sold a lot of records in Italy, but almost nobody understod his words!! Funny, I guess, for the americans who are used to listen mostly english lyrics, right?

Anyway, beside that, I love portuguese as spoken in Brasil, and the "rap"
meant as ryhthmic speaking is a natural aspect of samba and capoeira,
if you listen to instruments like berimbao and cuica they do a wordless rap already, (afterall they are mostly africans too like the USA balck ghetto people)

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:20 am

living sounds wrote:Nice tune. But the drums are badly in need of some serious processing, at least if you want this to sound anything like hip hop.

yes I think get what you mean, I processed them simply with some compressor and reverb, as I wrote I'm no hip hop producer, for what I heard so far the drums in hip hop are simply loud and short, <grin>, I mean I don't thing there is a standard hip hop drums sound, is it?

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:21 am

Caleb wrote:I'm really not the person to critique this as a hip hop masterpiece as I'm no afficionado. However, I really liked this.

As I was listening to it I imagined that the guy was rapping about sun and beach for some reason. Then I read some comments and saw that it was fairly common to associate this song with summer.

I really liked the way the rapping was done, very smooth and laid back and the music suited it really well.

I liked it.

Regards
Caleb

Thanks for your words Caleb, I'm glad you enjoy it

living sounds · Post by **living sounds** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:39 pm

I've added some hip hop drums and a sine bass and cut some of the low end of your track here:
www.scherer.de/Download/BrasileroNewdrums.mp3

You can find the samples here:
www.scherer.de/Download/HipSamples.wav

liqih wrote:
living sounds wrote:Nice tune. But the drums are badly in need of some serious processing, at least if you want this to sound anything like hip hop.
yes I think get what you mean, I processed them simply with some compressor and reverb, as I wrote I'm no hip hop producer, for what I heard so far the drums in hip hop are simply loud and short, <grin>, I mean I don't thing there is a standard hip hop drums sound, is it?

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:13 pm

hey it sounds good! At which freq did you filter? LP or BP?

Thanks

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:21 pm

This is a great song with superb vocals (love especially the whispered ones):
Congrats and bravissimo!

chrimel

edit: the drums from 'Living Sounds' give an extra punch!

living sounds · Post by **living sounds** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:27 pm

Took out a big chunk around the most prominent frequencies of the kick, which are between 70-150 hz. If you are going to edit your mix I'd rather replace the drums than simply layer them on top. Also, use a different hihat, the one in the mix sounds shrill. Last thing: The bass has a lot of energy below 50 hz, too much so. If I were to work on that song I'd replace the drums, put a a high pass filter on your bass (around 120-140 or so) and add the sine wave sample to get some real low end once in a while.

liqih wrote:hey it sounds good! At which freq did you filter? LP or BP?

Thanks

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:04 pm

Thanks a ton mello! <kiss>

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living, good, I will try that. Thanks

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Hip-Hop Brasilero: Portuguese Rap! How's the mix????