Heat Haze

Gundam Wing

Percs

Vodun

Planet of the Oud

Waxworks

Vape Shoppe

Wannacry

Temple Monkeys

Under new management ...

Under the 10 year rule, this lame-ass web-log is now under new management.

Sincerely

The Serpent People of South America

BeatBlog is now over here.

BeatBlog might be reawakening after it's slumbers ...

OK ... BeatBlog has now moved home again. The new BeatBlog is in my own space, running on a copy of OddMuse Wiki although I'm running it in non-editable mode. Still working out how I want it to look. As of the transition, we're up to Beat 0237.

The New BeatBlog

NB : BeatBlog reverts to being just about the beats. Other musical stuff will now be recombined with my main weblog

I'm out ...

phil

Alert readers will note that BeatBlog is still suffering technical details. On the left you can see the old list of beats from the old site.

Looks like my includes are no longer working ... so maybe something drastic is in order. Haven't decided yet.

In the meantime, I've been working on music to accompany a show of poetry readings. Some mp3s can be found on the show's dedicated wiki

Stealth Disco !!!!

Remember, you can always use BeatBlog beats on The Perfect Mix Tape

If you've recently come to this site, you're probably confused. What are the beats I'm talking about.

Sorry. Normally there's a "roll" of links to MP3 files down the left hand side of this page. Unfortunately, since I changed my hosting to a different server, for some currently unexplained reason, these no longer appear. BeatBlog will be continuing soon. (Basically as soon as I can figure what's wrong with javascript including from my new host.)

Sorry for the outage.

Simon Reynolds has a great discussion of the Amen break used in junglism. And some interesting comments from a real producer, Brandon Ivers, about the techniques of producing breaks. These days it's apparently all about layering multiple breaks, using a lot of carefully planned eq and filtering to make sure they don't fight. This takes so much effort that the producer then isn't much into the kind of cutting up and messing about with the beat that characterized earlier jungle.

Seems a shame. But possibly why d'n'b got so boring. Though maybe I need to check out some recent stuff. Ivers says mashed up breaks are back.

TODAY'S BEATS :

0236 : Woah! This is MONSTROUS! Stop-start tricksy, syncapations from a loop at two slightly different speeds, luminous synth toms, soul claps. Then a big slab of Moogalike riffs takes it to the next level. Whoahahaha !

0235 : Slimy analogue synths slink between the carboniferous trees of a primordeal woodland.

0234 : Samples a horrendously emphatic Flash advert that turned up on a web page. For obvious reasons I'm not putting this one into Creative Commons public domain or indemnifying you against being sued for using it. Use at own risk.

0233 : Listen to that build-up. I like this sort of "start without much recognisable pulse" thing, then add more drums to reveal the groove.

Simon Reynolds reveals that Omni Trio's Rob Haigh was once in the NWW / United Dairies circle.