I originally set out to make a funky album, but somehow I keep making these loose, woozy, and gloomy tracks instead. Maybe it's just the kind of music I've been listening to lately. (I've always been more of a Portishead person than a Gorillaz person, after all.) And the fact that I've been really into Swans lately probably isn't helping either.

Full tape on bandcamp now :)

A bit about the beat for anyone interested:

The spine of the track is made up from one country / Americana sample. Because that song was originally panned so wide i could split it into two L and R channels and kind of isolate the bass, guitar and slide w EQ and chops. This sample loops all the way through it just changes emphasis with EQ making it into “sections”

The drums were a super slow sample that is speeded up which gives it a light, small, chill feel.

The strings are two samples (one long note each). Then I duplicate them and used Little Alterboy (free pitch plugin). To make them kind of bend or sweep and harmonise. I find you can get away with some horrible pitch bend if you put a big reverb after it. They sound really awful w the reverb off. Still a little jank but we work w what we got right.

The piano and wurly etc section is loads of keys samples chopped and pitched to make like a broken melody.

The spoken word section -I never know where these are from cos they’re always called like “screen recording 427” but it’s a girl in the 60s:
“This is my bag and..I found my place here and…I came to this house here and started cooking…I got my own room…and…I do my cooking, and I’m happy”

First taste of my halloween album I've been working on🎃

Hope you enjoy 🙌

My 3 main goals with this album are

1 to make original audio (my own records and compositions) sound like they were samples

2 try and implement cross fading (with custom dj scratching) to transition every song

3 try and make sure that my samples and audio are in the same tempo while maintaining my dilla time beat making skills

I’m also unable to post some songs on SoundCloud so I will be posting progress videos and we’ll see how that works and plays out

Hey, sometimes i make these shorts with songs that i havent finished, got some new full tracks coming out soon that im working on.

Please comment on the new track by Munster. Nostalgic, powerful guitars and vocals ranging from mellow to scream.

now working on a new album.

I've been wanting to go back to basics and make some classic-sounding trip-hop.

I'm aiming for a loose, funky album with a vibe similar to early Gorillaz.

You can find the rest of the demos here.

https://soundcloud.com/black-napas/sets/gro

Currently working on my label debut and I got thinking, there are so many unreal producers and artists on here covering so many different styles within the genre.
My question is what are some go to techniques you guys use to get your signature sound?
Doesn’t matter how basic or advanced, niche or not!
For example Ive started parallel bussing all my individual tracks and then parallel bussing all my busses.

Okay after finishing my debut album I’m planning on taking a little break before starting my 2nd album and this one is gonna be far more interesting for me because I’m planning on using other music making software besides Bandlabs and I’m planning on doing production streams… so yeah I hope you guys will enjoy this next release and hopefully I am able to finish this before the 2030s!

The full album is also now on SoundCloud

I’ll add y’all’s names to each song y’all chose!

Lucky Strike:

Don’t be a shmoo:

Cross at the green:

Beaten and burned:

Teenage society:

Blimp bass:

Why not change:

Off into space:

Donny B:

Popper:

New Jersey waterfront:

Eluded you:

Something Extra:

It’s finally out now!!!

My debut album is 20 minutes away from premiering on YouTube… hope to see y’all there!!!

Hey, been a while since I've posted anything, mostly just been lurking for the last year but I hope to get more active!

Here's one song from an EP I released today, although I've only linked the most trip-hop sounding song. Hope you enjoy it, and would love it if you checked out the other two songs on the EP.

I'm also open to any feedback if you have any thoughts!

Gona start sharing samples I didn’t end up using here. All spoken word is taken from old obscure docs and movies that I’m 99% certain won’t put u in copyright jail ;)

DM me for google drive link. Just 8 samples in this one but gonna try and make this a more regular thing and don’t want to fluff it out w shit stuff ✌️

J. G. Ballard's novel High Rise was published in 1975 so I went to the mid 70's for a vibe and it came back disco. So the track got a downbeat disco rhythm and some haunted elevator chimes.

This is the second completed track from the upcoming Empty Swimming Pools EP. Concrete Island is already done, the next two will probably be Cocaine Nights and Running Wild.

Denmark meets the Netherlands
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This is my first post. There is a lot of really great music in here. Looking forward to checking it all out further. I specialize in 90s style mixtapes and concept albums. From the Bay Area, CA.

This is a demo for my upcoming project titled K'odakolay. It's dedicated to local wildlife. With tripped out samples of field recordings. This one features DMC champ DJ Raylan and AFRO.

This releases on October 10th at 1:03 pm in central time

Hope to see y’all there ;)

The album is finally finished!

I thought it would be better to keep it short rather than add more tracks that I made without much inspiration.

It might be a bit of a stretch to call it trip-hop, but I still feel like I made it with trip-hop in mind.

Now I’m not really sure what to do next. Lately I’ve been really into µ-Ziq’s albums, so I’ve been digging through his

Hopefully you guys enjoy it!

Requiring feedback on my new track.