This past Friday I was in “a mood”. Tim Schuldt’s hard guitar psytrance fitted my mood. I first heard Schuldt’s music on a mix tape many years ago. I recently discovered on YouTube that the track was Absurd from his Single-Collection (2000). YouTube user DennisRoshal says it well — the track is “epic”. I’ve created [...]
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Nate Harrison on the “Amen Break” – the foundation of jungle/drum&bass
About the “Amen Break” from Wikipedia: ‘The “Amen break” was a brief drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Sylvester “G. C.” Coleman in The Winstons’s song “Amen, Brother”. ‘The “Amen Break”, “Amen”, or imitations thereof, are frequently used as sampled drum loops in hip hop, jungle, breakcore and drum and bass music. [...] ["Amen, [...]
Turn Your KORG MS2000 into a Drum Machine with Bass Line and Lead
I recently got a chance to jam with a Korg MS2000B. Released in 2003, the Korg MS2000B is “a new version of the original Korg MS-2000 synthesizer with an updated sound set, black metallic color scheme and dedicated vocoder mic.”1. The original Korg MS-2000 uses virtual analog subtractive synthesis, has 2 ADSR attenuators, 1 resonant [...]
Favorite (Goa Trance Track): “Mai Mai” by Jaia (Jaïa)
“Mai Mai” by Jaia (Jaïa) from their album Blue Energy (1998; Cross Records) is another one of my favorite goa trance tracks. It’s hard to get your hands on — as far as I’m aware there’s no place where one can purchase a legal high-quality down-loadable copy of the track. Blue Energy was re-released in [...]
