The Caffeine Drummer

[FORMAT]

While Germany is playing against Argentina and I'm probably the only person in Germany not watching the match, I jammed this new tune I prepared yesterday on the MD.

It's me, with too much coffee in my blood, doing a high-stress groove, but not on the drumset.
Lookin' forward to reading how you like it! Left it rough quite intentionally.

Here it is: http://soundcloud.com/encym/caffeine-drummer

[Lemmike]

nice beats

[FORMAT]

nice beats

Cheeeerrs.

[FORMAT]

Anybody for some more coffee??

[jharling]

Probably the best song title i have seen on these forums . What drum machine are you using? I have a Roland HPD-15, used to use it a lot more years ago as i was just a drummer/percussionist. Kindof making me want to start using it again. Nice jam by the way.

[FORMAT]

Probably the best song title i have seen on these forums . What drum machine are you using? I have a Roland HPD-15, used to use it a lot more years ago as i was just a drummer/percussionist. Kindof making me want to start using it again. Nice jam by the way.

It's Elektron's Machinedrum UW. Killer baby!
Thanks for your comment!!

[FORMAT]

nice beats

Cheers!

[xuoham]

Yes, very nice, as always...
I like the over-saturation of drum information, it ends up being liquid like a pad.
Wondering if you played all by hand in 2, 3 times, or if you recorded patterns for the basic and played the rest, or if it's all programmed.
I love the big Steve Roach like pad that comes underneath sometimes, it really gives a whole new breath. Great soberness and development, waiting the end to slam this old spring sound... very dramatic.
Nice job mein Herr Roland. Gut gemacht, gut bedenkt, gut performiert (can you say "performieren" in German ? forgot...).
Furchtbar !!

[FORMAT]

Yes, very nice, as always...
I like the over-saturation of drum information, it ends up being liquid like a pad.
Wondering if you played all by hand in 2, 3 times, or if you recorded patterns for the basic and played the rest, or if it's all programmed.
I love the big Steve Roach like pad that comes underneath sometimes, it really gives a whole new breath. Great soberness and development, waiting the end to slam this old spring sound... very dramatic.
Nice job mein Herr Roland. Gut gemacht, gut bedenkt, gut performiert (can you say "performieren" in German ? forgot...).
Furchtbar !!

Thanks! A lot!
And thanks for your question.
This is how this went:

Day 1
I did record the basic grooves by hand on the Machinedrum.
Then did patterns, more varations and more patterns.
Added textures and tweaked the sounds - some internal, some my own samples (MD UW has sampling facility).
More work replacing samples, the basic groove was established at this point. All this went on from morning to evening.

Day 2
Then, the next day, I added different grooves, Parameter Locks, deviated from the 4/4 grid by programming odd time signature patterns, and finally "played" the tune, with onthefly tweaking, muting, shifting tracks, very easy to do live on the MD. So good, lengthy preparation and quick execution.

And before I forget: It's "performen"

[eggnchips]

Nice to hear something different. Very brave indeed and well done. I like the simple bass thumps.

[FORMAT]

Nice to hear something different. Very brave indeed and well done. I like the simple bass thumps.

Thank you very much!