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ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:56 pm

Greetings each and everyone,

here's some dubs I've made. Well, couple of riddim run-throughs really and some with more dubbing, some with just in-and-out instrumentation kind of mixing. All composed, recorded and mixed with the dreaded energyXT sequencer with only free synths, effects and samples. Yes I'm a poor man, strickly sufferah style.

I hold great gratitude to you, ye mighty plug-in developers.

First some older cuts: http://file.jaatiedostosi.com/e5c7_m/
And then a couple of newer riddims: http://server2.shareyourfiles.net/zX0CDc/

About sixteen megabytes each, first one with four files, the second one with five.. I guess it could make up an full album, if I'd actually finish the tracks one day.

Tell I what you think.

Give thanks.

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:12 pm

ras.s wrote:Greetings each and everyone,

here's some dubs I've made. Well, couple of riddim run-throughs really and some with more dubbing, some with just in-and-out instrumentation kind of mixing. All composed, recorded and mixed with the dreaded energyXT sequencer with only free synths, effects and samples. Yes I'm a poor man, strickly sufferah style. I hold great gratitude to you, ye mighty plug-in developers.

First some older cuts: http://file.jaatiedostosi.com/e5c7_m/
And then a couple of newer riddims: http://server2.shareyourfiles.net/zX0CDc/

About sixteen megabytes each, first one with four files, the second one with five.. I guess it could make up an full album, if I'd actually finish the tracks one day.

Tell I what you think.

Give thanks.

for links

Subz

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:46 am

http://sites.google.com/site/suomiroots/Kaikki_yot.mp3

A rather lengthy love song. Skip to around to five minutes, if you find my finnish croaking absolutely hideous... No dub gimmicks on this yet. I don't make love songs too often, but this is still pretty much the kind of music I end up making.

Features energyXT, drumaxx, SQ8L, Gluereeds, 4Front Piano, some de la mancha compressors.. And a one shot vocal recorded with a SM57.

Edit: And it's called 'All the nights' in english.

No_Use · Post by **No_Use** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:19 am

ras.s wrote:
First some older cuts: http://file.jaatiedostosi.com/e5c7_m/
And then a couple of newer riddims: http://server2.shareyourfiles.net/zX0CDc/

I wanted to listen but links don't work anymore.

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:26 am

Thanks for the interest.. Pretty much the same tracks at my site, click www under my name to the left. Not zipped though.

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:13 pm

Yes I,

just updated my www-page with a hour of roots reggae music. Go have a listen and please, if you dare, comment on them.. They aren't exactly the best versions (I save those for a different situation..) but them music still. This time featuring Korg Electribe ESX on the drum and the bass with various plugins accompanying on other instruments, mixed on a eight track Soundcraft-mixer. Composed&mixed this year's january and february.

Jah Lapsi (Child of God) is a bit on the ambient side, with loose drums and long echoes, sweet melody inspired by a certain youth. Worry about the World is in the four-to-the-floor stepping style, with Haiti on mind back then. Unelmas ja haavees (Your dreams and aspirations) and Leijonanharjavalta (Lion's mane power - finnish language pun on my birthtown of Harjavalta and on universal reggae mythology) are the only tracks I've got songs written for so far. Rootsman shuffle has a open hihat thing grooving on. Yks kohtalo (One destiny) and Govern our Soul are somewhat 'rocky', now that I listen to them. All of them feature heavy bass and repetitive minor chord structures.

Minne luulet meneväs (Where yuh think yuh going?) and Suruko (Is it sorrow?) are more towards hip hop than reggae, but still strongly influenced by my musical fixations. Kaikki yöt (All the nights) is a love song and only one with vocals on it, rhythmwise a bit unorthodox reggae. These were done 'inside the box'. And the track called Tribute to the Imperial Bodyguard Band is a small real instrument proof-of-concept I did.

If someone actually got around downloading what was earlier there, then here's a link for the 'cover'.

Big thanks to the KVR collective; the gracious developers, the well experienced and the noob, the hilarious writers, the moderators, all providing insightful discussions about our common love: the MUSIC and the making of it! Let's go forward and do some more!

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:34 pm

No one dare download and tell?

Too bland? Well.. If it feels like a hassle to download them individually, I zipped them up and put them here.

Would like to hear comments, even though if it's the usual 'is okey'..

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:55 pm

Lousy bump for over six hundred views and zero comments..

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:51 pm

Yes I, greetings,

decided to showcase these on a another forum and thought I might as well share them here. Technically not dub but instrumental reggae - I don't have the equipment to dub, as my MIDI controller died on me long ago, and I don't want to go the through the mouse-click path of dubbing.. And don't have a full flexed soundcard either right now.

Aaanyways: may I present you Surunmaas (either "In the land of sorrow" or "Your land of sorrow"), a quite basic minor chord thing.

January 2011 http://www.box.net/shared/xrbax2nxmi
and
August 2010 http://www.box.net/shared/loan6txdsl

The difference is that the 2010 version I managed to record with real instruments while in prison last summer. And as it doesn't really sound so good, Iman not so good with the drum kit, I decided to relick it to try out Studio One, which I bought during the lightning sale. Turned out pretty good. Too full though, with all the instruments blowing all the time - dubbing would give it some more space. Represents my style quite well.

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:44 pm

Surunmaas 2011 SSALO.MP3.mp3, nice melody and good soft sounds, I'll keep this in my reggae folder, <wink>

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:18 pm

Thank you, I appreciate your words.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:50 pm

...downloading now.

Feel free to download my stuff from soundcloud.
Some rights reserved

Goodnite Irie !

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 6:56 pm

ras.s wrote: ...if I'd actually finish the tracks one day.

I know how you feel.

I'm liking the tracks/ideas... Jah Lapsi is a good start, slow and steady, the bass has some nice little variations and the sounds are all good.

Unelmas ja haavees has some very good sounds too. I'm liking the minimal dub. One thing I would say is - the hi-hats need a bit more flow to them as with a few of the other tracks. And you could perhaps 'push them up' with the eq a bit, i mean hi-pass the hats up a bit and boost the top end with a nice eq or enhancer. But i think more important is the quantising needs to loosen up a bit here and there. When they're locked a bit tighter into the groove on some tracks, you could also use a bit of 16th delay to groove them along a bit.

Your piano and organ sounds are generally quite good, maybe you could sometimes LP filter them instead of taking them out of the mix? or a bit of delay on them when you DO take them out of the mix.

I think you'd benefit from a bit more reverb, a nice plate, and a spring now and then. And of course some bucket brigade delay, or some sort of feedback overloads going on. Also i think some tracks could do with a bit less going on in places. Don't be afraid to strip the track down to one element if need be. Effect it, get the most out of it, then keep telling your story.

Minne luulet meneväs has a nice drum sound

All round good tones on that track. I can hear some turntablist dropping some mad creative cuts and sounds in there.

Tribute to the Imperial Bodyguard Band has a great krusty sound. Love it. Doity.

Thanks for the tracks ras.s!
Hope to hear an album soon!

All the best!

Simon

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:59 am

Yes, thanks for the extensive review sqigls, and sorry for not getting back any earlier.

Got to say about those older tracks, that they were pretty much a proof-of-concept. I managed to misuse ASIO4ALL, making it output both from my computer's internal soundcard and my external device - so that I had two stereo tracks, making that four mono.. Then I used a Electribe-drumbox to output another four tracks, the drums and the bass (and the melody on Jah Lapsi) - giving me a total of eight tracks. Then I picked up our band's live mixer and a Behringer effect device. The tracks coming from the computer I was able to mix with a nanoKontrol-device, while using the mixer to sum all together. Because I had only one external effect, I didn't have much choice with the effects on the mixer: it was either reverb or delay, and changing them on the fly. I recorded the output from the mixer on a unused 8-track recorder. Outputting audio on two devices and MIDI on one really put energyXT under pressure. Some of that inconsistency with the grooves is because of that, I think. I also composed and mixed them all within three weeks or so, about a year ago now.

Lo-fi is the new hi-fi, eh? ;)

I usually work in-the-box, giving me a bit more sophisticated sound. I really should update the samples on the Electribe to put it to more use.

On a sidenote, check out the band I play in (in fact, live in, as I live with the two other big hatted brothers), I'm the guy jumping up and down and skanking with the percussion in the background. There's five tracks total, that's the only one in english. We perform in many calibres, either dj-style, 8-track live dub, electric or acoustic band.. Maybe we'll do heavy metal style as well later on. ;)

Nice tracks you've got, I think I haven't heard dub from Australia before. Echo speaks in all tongues, I use to say.. A lot of dub over here tends to lean on tradition: either mimicing Jamaican styles or britons. I like your style, sounds like its out of that mindset.

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:35 pm

Here's one fresh from the press, got it to this point about an hour ago.. Once again no dub but material for future dubbing.

Mietin josko (I wonder if): http://www.box.net/shared/74rel0cuxs

Sorry no direct link, I've got one of those free box.net accounts.

Does the sloppy timing bother you folks?

Dub