Guilty Conscience Music Blog

Hard, pounding percussion? Check. A dirty bass line? That comes in after 15 seconds and if you like that, just wait for the extra grittiness after 30 seconds! For the main part of the piece though, the breakdown is at 1′15″ and over the next 45 seconds, the chord stabs expand before full release. It’s [...]

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With a skipping hi-hat, a disco sample, some tight drums, hand claps and a funky bass line this is what some call disco house, though that label seems to have fallen out of favour recently. Verse, chorus and bridge structure are here and some higher instruments lend the colour to the bass refrain on which [...]

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I spend some time on community sites for musicians and I found some audio files by Lavida on her page on SectionZ. The vocal was just her and a basic heartbeat sound which I EQ’d out. All the other parts were written around the vocal in the original tempo. It has a pounding beat which [...]

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A dirty, gritty electro number this one. The essential groove is insistent but with sweeps and some delayed guitars, it moves along nicely. The drums are overdriven (consciously so) and compressed within an inch of their life. This give the acoustic sound the power needed to compete with the other powerful parts.
Like many of my [...]

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