Exposed Part 1

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I’ve been playing and have created the first part of a mix made from some of my past creations. I’m actually really pleased with it, it get surprisingly exciting towards the second half.

The blurb…
Conclusionary mix of That Kid past. From “Create AP”, the first ever That Kid song in 1995 to the silly little nothings of 2005. All mixed up with that extra little something and created to draw a line under what I’ve done so far. This is Part 1 of 6.

The File…
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All this playing made me wonder how much I would have to pay to buy all the musical bits and bobs I couldn’t live without, plus the hardware I would buy if i was starting afresh.

Software

Ableton Live 5 Simply wonderful workstation that’s now as good at sequencing as it is for DJ’ing 300
Native Instruments Absynth Pseudo analogue synth gone mad. Wonderful granular features 166
Native Instruments Battery Sample based percussion. Has the best sounding acoustic set i’ve ever heard. 126
Native Instruments Kontakt Sampling instrument that comes with a 9GB library that is top notch. 119
Waves Native Powerpack Set of filters for enhancing sound. Compressors, stereo enhances and the like. 300
IK Amplitude Effects that are technically for guitars but are actually useful for all-sorts 180
Total   1191

Hardware

iMac G5 With 1GB RAM 1270
M-Audio Transit Because the iMac’s built in sound probably isn’t up to much 53
Evolution E-Keys 49 49 key midi keyboard that’s velocity sensitive and cheapo 79
Total 1402

That’s a total of 2593 GBP which is quite an outlay, and I reckon that’s the least you can expect to pay to have a good professional sounding setup. The hardware is actually stuff I would *LIKE* to have. In reality I’m using the software on my crappy beige PC that no-one has yet come to take away! Bastards.

Itchsploitation 0101

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Oh heck what have i done now. I always thought that it would be quite nice to pretend to be a DJ and run a little internet radio station. Well that isn’t going to happen but just the sake of it I’ve put together a couple of the songs I’m listening to at the moment. I also thought it would be rather fun to mix them a little bit, nothing major, just blend them a little. Now, only a fool would attempt to do a mix from tracks of completely different genre’s, but i’ve never been known to turn down the opportunity of baring my foolishness.

The joins are downright painful, but hopefully somebody somewhere will appreciate being introduced to some neato music. Some is electronic, some indie, new wave, pop, downtempo, ya know, bit of anything ‘ll do, i wouldn’t even say no to jazz.

There’s a whole pirating issue here, but you know what, i’ve butchered these tracks so much that no one could possibly claim they’re an alternative to parting with the cash for the genuine articles.

So here it is, “The Itch & Be Merry Exploitation Volume 1: Episode 1″

Hopefully, if i continue to do these i’ll get a little bit better at it. Gosh, couldn’t possibly be any worse.

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