Beat Battle League: Week Three : Love Endures
Beat Battle League: Week Three : Love Endures
My entry for the Beat Battle League week 3 challenge. https://steemit.com/beatbattle/@chiefmappster/beat-battle-league-week-three
The cue for this beat was the concept of universal love. Love runs the gammut of human feeling. It has both positive and negative effects on us, it is both light and dark. This one's about missing somebody, and how dark it can feel waiting for that love to come back. For the sun to rise after the night of loving someone in their absence.
I Laced this together using a Boss SP-303 Dr. Sample, a DR-202 drum machine and a Technics SL-1200. Most non-native drum sounds pulled from "Super Duck Breaks" off of Stonesthrow Records, the textures toward the end pulled from this single by Amnesty:
The Vocal soliloquy is the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi off of his eponymous record (Liberty LBS83075)
I hope you enjoy it.
If you a jive turkey, don't gimme no lip. Love grooves of the era, full retrospect to the honors of the full on jazz pop roots. Felt like I had on a long collar plaid shirt and shades sportin my fro and stalking my girl to see if she was cheatin.
Hahah right? That's what I meant about love having that dark side. Make people do all sorts of crazy things both good and bad.
I felt it man, good on ya
I thought this was pretty cool but it sounded like you used a sample to make the beat, not sure if you did or not but I think week three was all about original beats? I was loving the old school instrumental vibe but I didn't feel the gravitational tune of love in my own personal perspective, but we all have our own perspective though. This beat threw me into a vision where there's a rap cypher going on and a bunch of rappers free styling and having a good time. This instrumental also match that boxing gif too, it sounds like it could be the theme song to that image. Keep it going, I'm looking forward to hearing some of your beats!
I used several drum snippets from an old DJ battle record chopped, layered, rearranged and programmed using a SP-303 Dr. Sample. The bass line I came up with and played using a distorted 808 patch on the dr202 . I wasn't aware of any rules about samples vs software synths vs hardware synths. This method I've used isn't really any different than choosing a patch for a software synth in Ableton or Reason, except I did all the legwork and built my own drum kit. Either way I'm not trying to be stepping on any toes.
As for thematics, I was going more for the feeling one gets when their love is far away. Love for me isn't all puppies and rainbows, but a spectrum of things both light and dark, positive and negative. Like the Maharishi says in the vocal sample "When the night comes all appears to be dark".
Anyways I appreciate your in-depth review and active listening. Thank you!
Sure beats the usual "Nice post, please follow and resteem! <3 " we see so often on here.
I'll make sure to check out your posts and music. Thanks again!
Ayy heck yeah you my dude this is creative as fuck o weee.
Stay tuned for your comprehensive review with the winners announcement tomorrow night.
Thanks again buddy.
Thanks for the inspiration to bust out with the beatmaking equipment. It's been ages.
Heck yeah that makes my smile so big
You're welcome buddy :)
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Siiiiiiick. V nice, solid beat. tappin and bobbin... funk-eh. More please!