Making Tech House sound like Michael Bibi – Ableton 10 Free Template It’s a video from another small channel with just 348 subscribers and 21 videos, but this particular tutorial has had 3,223 views since it was published on the 21st May 2020. Fair play to Sai Lika here as he’s given away his template for […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi (Part 4 – CAPONNE)
Ableton Tutorial 2 : Como fazer um drop estilo Michael Bibi & Pawsa do zero It’s a small channel with just 3 videos and 110 subscribers, but this particular video has had 3,333 views since its release in March 2020 so it’s worth looking it. CAPONNE offers up 16 bars of his take on how […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi (Part 3 – Julien Earle)
Making A FULL Tech House Track Like Michael Bibi & PAWSA From Start To Finish [+Samples] Julien around this time tended to put out short videos with just 8 bar loops, but this one promises a full tech house track. In reality it’s not quite that as it’s just 48 bars and is basically an […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi (Part 2 – Djbods)
How To Make Tech House Like Michael Bibi & Pawsa: Part 1 Despite me wanting to avoid Hanging Tree, in this video Djbods uses it as his reference track and attempts to combine it with elements from the Michael Bibi Remix of Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation. Personally I’ve never really liked guitars in […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi
I started thinking about the usefulness of the ‘how to’ music production videos on youtube after, somewhat ironically, watching something on youtube that wasn’t particularly complimentary about this style of content. Essentially the premise was that most, but not all, of these videos exist solely to sell a sample pack or a patreon subscription, which […]
Finishing Tracks Is Its Own Practice
Late last night I was catching up on my youtube subscriptions and this vid appeared on my feed from Bthelick. Now, I make a lot of music and I also publish a lot of it on Soundcloud, but I also sit on a lot and probably 1 in every 5 tracks I start, I don’t […]
Get Loose – House
I sat on this for a few days because I wan’t so sure about it – something just seemed off so it was ready for the music graveyard. Gave it another listen this morning, and decided it’s just about good enough to keep, so here it is. The vocal sample chop comes from Raze – […]
Emerging – Tech House
Last one for the time being using the East End Dubs sample pack … sounds a bit like SCL007 – B2 (no shame as it’s one of the best releases on Social, in my opinion) with some classic vocals chops from Shelter Me. The arrangement looks very simple, but there is a lot of automation […]
Elevate – Tech House
Credit where it’s due, I pulled some of the ideas here for this tune from the Elevate Musik youtube channel. More drums and loops here from the East End Dubs sample pack, plus a dusty old T La Rock vocal snippet and a short vintage break fill from Banbarra.
Let Me Hear You Say… – Tech House
One more made using the East End Dubs sample pack plus an old vocal sample from the Zero-G disk 1 pack. Minimal tech house sounds, if that’s your cup of tea, then you might like this. Made myself some custom label artwork too rather than just using a blank whitelabel – looks nice and professional […]
Crazy – Tech House (East End Dubs)
I picked up the East End Dubs sample pack from Sample Market and made this. It’s basically my version of the first track off of Tools Vol. 1 using mostly samples from their pack. It’s alright, it sounded comparable to the download I was referencing, but then compared to the version on Soundcloud, it’s a […]
The Ghetto – Tech House
Another tech house tune this week, and another drawing inspiration from the Solid Grooves Raw label. This one using a huge sample from the Marlena Shaw track, “Woman of the ghetto” which was famously sampled by Blue Boy for their classic, “Remember Me”.
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That, That [Free Download] – Tech House
I finished this track today – a nice little tech house roller in the Solid Grooves style (well, that was the aim). It’s bugging me though where this sample originally comes from. It’s labelled in my sample pack as SOBV1_VOX_beat_box_124bpm and I know it was used in a few old skool hardcore tunes too. Comment […]
East Side Posse – UK Old Skool Hip Hop
Many, many years ago (well, about 22 I think) I got myself a copy of this tape made by a group calling themselves East Side Posse. It’s been sat in my stash unplayed for many years now but whilst having a bit of spring clean today I discovered it once more. A quick search on […]
Obscure UK Old Skool Hardcore – The Final List
Hetzer on discogs suggested, “Computing a *relative* Score = Wanted By/Owned By, i.e. the higher this score is the more obscure is the release.” might throw up a nice list of obscure tunes … and he’s not wrong! So that’s the final list of ‘wanted’ tunes I’m going to run off. I’ll try and think […]
It’s Time For Some Electro
As promised in this post, here are some more scans of the classic Electro Rock pages from The Street Scene magazine. You can now check out up to issue 5 in glorious high-resolution on my flickr. If you like your old skool electro, be sure to check out the Electro Nation weekly podcast. They also have a new live […]
Not On Label – The 100 Most Wanted
spa5tik0lonz on the UK Oldskool Hardcore discogs forum suggested it might be nice to see some really obscure wants. I’m always up for a suggestion. So, below are the 100 most wanted releases that are ‘Not On Label’. Some real obscurities in amongst this lot! # ID Artist Title Owned By / Wanted By 1. 104564 Global […]
Top 10’S … Old Skool Formats Analysed
Welcome to the next in my series of postings about the most wanted UK old skool hardcore releases. Here are the top 10’s for the other more obscure formats (who buys their hardcore on 7″!!) ordered by most wanted. Some interesting nuggets come to light here, like the ‘Waves Of Extinction (Hardcore Rebellion)’ by Orca […]
Electro Talk – The Street Scene Magazine 1985
Way back in the mid 80’s it was a hard to get info on the latest electro & hip hop releases. Blues & Soul was probably the choice but then Morgan Khan played a blinder with the release of The Street Scene in November 1985. Sadly it only lasted for 25 issues, and every one […]
The Most Wanted Records On discogs.com
A couple of months ago in amongst a bundle of mixed old skool, I picked up a copy of #1 by Format on ESP Records from 1991. I looked it up on discogs and 99 members wanted that tune. Which got me thinking … what is the most wanted slice of dance vinyl (according to discogs)? Once […]