In the summer of 2014 I was commissioned to create an album of contemporary production music for a production house in the UK. After finishing a lot of initial edits, with a short loop and extended loop for each track, alternates, etc., I had to make a lot more. In the beginning of 2015 the production house lost funding and had to cancel all ongoing projects. I learned a lot about making production music, creating templates, shutting my brain off and finishing a projects no matter what I thought of it, and a lot about contracts and getting paid in advance. These are a few of the tracks, which are incredibly dated sounding, almost embarrassingly so.
I figured Jai Paul was the main thing people wanted for their production music in 2014. Lot of swing, compressed distorted oberheim with a bunch of sidechaining, funk guitar chords, that kind of thing.
I think this is a leftover from movie production, it’s a little dramatic to be production music. Some good ideas about drum sampler mixing that I’ve kept improving on over the years.
This type of music and lo-fi mixing is something I did hear around in different settings for a few years, so it’s not that weird. Secret drum sample.
Something mellow that sounds very much like the time it was made, and a track that worked very well for background neutral use despite being full and maximal in the mixing.
An early example of the pop music trend of avoiding the tonic to create tension in a loop? It made me think of Venga Boys.
Basti Aker 