![]() Music tag grime software#I produce all my stuff on Maschine, a music production software by Native Instruments (who also have sick DJ software, called Traktor).ħ) Do you think it’s good to have something that limits the boundaries of a creative project like Maschine? I like to mess around with the EQ and often reverse samples or add effects so they sound very different to the original sound.Ħ) What software do you use to make your beats + instrumentation? I tend to find sounds I like with interesting melodies or chord progressions, and then chop them up and play around with the pitch. I feel like they music often directs what I wanna talk about and directs my flow/cadence on a song, so I’d struggle to work another way. I jot a lot of short lyrics down on the notes of my phone as and when they come to mind, but I tend to start with a beat and write to it after I have a vague musical idea down. I had a couple of other features on Blossom from people I know who make sick music and I think that’s something I want to do more of.Ĥ) Is writing then a process of starting with a lyric and building out, or is it more focused on the musical side? He’s a mad producer and plays the guitar as well, and he does stuff very differently from me. The way he works is sick and I think he brings out another side to my production and it’s sick to bounce ideas off of each other. ![]() Recently, I’ve started working on a lot of music with my friend Xadi, another artist-producer. I have a few friends whose ears I trust and so I send them stuff or play them music that I’m working on and ask for their input. Over the last few years, I’ve become accustomed to working on my music alone in my room. When I was much younger, I made music as part of a group and so we’d work on songs together. I had even more songs that almost made it on but I felt the length was just right and I feel like it flows quite well as a project.ģ) Is collaboration something you enjoy or do you prefer to tinker away in your room? ![]() They’re all very different and I thought there was space on the project for their individual styles – they all killed their features so I can’t complain. All the people on the EP are artists that I respect and who I know. It’s basically like a sequel to my last EP, and I feel like Blossom naturally flows from Growth. I’d been working on it from the end of last year, just constantly making songs and trying to find some sort of concept. Also probably Northampton’s Child by Slowthai cos that song gives me shivers every time.Ģ) So how did Blossom come about? There are a bunch more features than on your previous projects and it’s your longest release to date. The new Kano, Ghetts and D Double song is so insane. My favourite project to listen to at the moment is the new Octavian mixtape, and if I had to pick anything off the project, it would probably be King Essie or World. It was then that he premiered his track Talk, which was to become his big single from 2018 and feature on his EP, Blossom. Dan really owned the stage, pint ready on the floor, mic in hand: he projected his usual casual charisma. ![]() It was boiling outside, much like now, so it was almost a mercy to file out of the summer sun into this ethereally-lit room round the back of the pub (it had air-conditioning). I first saw Dan perform in the slightly cramped Islington pub last summer. The precision required to pull this off is not always obvious on first listen, but tuning your ears in to all the little details in his work is really rewarding. Often you’re listening to a double tracked or triple tracked Dan, a choir in tight sync. It’s like an aural heatwave, with Dan’s voice cutting through straight to the forefront. You feel really swallowed up by the music when listening. The effect of this intense soundscaping leaves a warm and heavy mix. He’s been active on Soundcloud since a year prior, and I’d really recommend going through some of his earlier stuff, even if just to see how much his work has changed.ĭan’s music is often layered with really gorgeous samples, pianos and hooks reversed and warped to provide a shifting background that hovers behind the tight grooves of his beats. His first release hit Spotify in 2016, but that’s deceptive. I was lucky enough to snag Daniel Adé for this piece.ĭan, for those of you who do not know him, has been releasing tracks for the last 4 years, and what’s so cool about his work is that you can really hear and see him develop, shift styles and change over the course of those releases. Music tag grime series#This is the first of what I hope to be a series of long form interviews with up-and-coming creatives in the music industry (and beyond, if I can get there!). ![]()
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