Hardware Sounding Hip Hop 100% Ableton

PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:35 am

www.myspace.com/intpdr please give me feedback thank you.

PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:07 am

Feed back please

Froschfinger · Post by **Froschfinger** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:51 am

Did you mean myspace.com?

PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:33 am

Froschfinger wrote:Did you mean myspace.com?

ya man you were right thanks i changed it now. i wonder if thats why i havent been getting any feed back hha

Froschfinger · Post by **Froschfinger** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:44 am

That may be the point. Though it does not take too much of a smart guy to realise that the URI you gave had a spelling mistake...
A short review: funny, but... it does sound like a soundtrack for Hiphop and Rap, but less like Hiphop itself (you called it that way)... I was surprised about the jazziness of your stuff. Is it samples or you who played the stuff?

MagnusPierre · Post by **MagnusPierre** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:50 am

In my book this is in line with St Germain. Ludovic Navarre's grand project combining dj tricks and live jazz musicians. One of the best records ever is Tourist. (Listening to it all the time)

A little bit more variations in your tunes and this could very well be the next big thing after St Germain! You have the groove but not the complete tunes yet.
Is it all you or do you use samples from jazz records?
Magnus

see the light · Post by **see the light** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:16 am

Where are the MC's and Rhymes?? Quite a glossy sound to it...it needs some warmth, other than that the grooves all there baby!

davepeck · Post by **davepeck** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:08 am

Hey Pedro,

I enjoyed listening to your tracks. How long have you been working on this style of music?

My impression is that you have talent -- maybe serious talent -- but you're at an early stage. Don't give up, and keep rocking the tunes.

Here are your two apparent strengths: (1) you have a good sense for harmony, especially jazz harmony. Develop this -- learn more about jazz, study it, and listen to it. (2) Your rhythm programming has a very suave/cool/collected feel. Do you think of your music as chill-out music, or as the next RJD2 or DJ Shadow, or is it more like St. Germain? Whatever the case, listen to a lot of the stuff others have written and again crank out more of your own stuff. You might be interested in listening to african drumming, which usually has very complex polyrhythms.

Here are the two things you might try to improve in your music. (1) First, you're good at laying down a groove but your tracks lack a strong sense of movement over their entire length. Figure out how to keep me interested over three minutes -- have an ABA form; do something surprising in the middle. Repeating the same loops and muting/unmuting them gets boring after a while. Jazz can get kind of repetitive -- have you listened to much classical music? Usually form over long periods of time is very important. (2) Second, you can work on your studio engineering. Your beats sound good, but they're not popping. And on some of your tracks, you add reverb to your bass -- this could be cool on occasion, but usually just makes it sound muddy. Get into the game with sidechaining and compression.

Aight, keep on rockin' and hope this helps.

-D2

PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:09 am

haha dam reading this makes me think back and reminisce . . . i have evolved so much since than.. i will put some new music up which is even better than the music i haev up currently on my myspace but still check it out.. one www.myspace.com/intpdr

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