Guilty Conscience Music Blog

Start with the drums. I should learn from this; it is often when a track comes together quickly. The halting staccato drum pattern was the first thing that I wrote. And, like most dance music producers, I gave it a try as a four-four beat. All the elements work together to give the North African [...]

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A faster house track. A little bit minimal in terms of instrumentation as the development comes from the percussion. Throughout the track bits drop in and out adding to the sense of urgency. Deep it may be and there are no strings or harmonies of any kind and deliberately so. You can’t put everything in [...]

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Trawling through old tracks is great for someone like me. I’m good at starting things and rubbish at finishing them. Awakening is the first track that I wrote and recorded on my first Mac (a Powerbook G4 if you’re a Mac geek) about, um, 4 or 5 years ago. It’s quite haunting even though it [...]

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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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