For this week’s WeeklyBeats I’ve gone even faster than last week, an up-tempo dance track that I guess you’d call “breaks”, or at least that’s what house tempo breakbeat stuff was called after big beat and before dubstep (when people weren’t calling it electro, yikes). Anyway, scene nonsense aside…
I’ve never particularly liked whatever this style is on its own, but there’s a reason I went there. As I write on the page, I tried to:
Channel a friend (another Michael, c.f. track name) who talked about doing a live reboot of the kind of thing Mouse on Mars and Mark E Smith did as Von Südenfed – don’t just do pastiche, but write for a live PA
I think using this as a backing for a vocal, and playing some version live, would be a really different thing to me sitting here at home.
I also explored some techniques I hadn’t really done before, also described on the page linked up at the start of this post. So if you make electronic music yourself, maybe give that a look.
I think for this coming week I’ll try going somewhere really different stylistically. I’m wondering about completely off-grid: no defined tempo or snapping the sounds to fit a beat.