So it’s awesome raging out to big bass trax, but what about afterwards when you’re like, “Oh my god, that was great but now I need to just chill…,” what then?
Here – Will Herwig from his youtube page has got you covered. It even opens with the best Flying Lotus track ever (IMO, anyway) and the whole thing is just a stone cold slow-down-groove-mix…. Stuff that might’ve been called wonky (I would’ve called a lot of it that, a few years ago) but it’s so slowed and chilled, I don’t know.. Anyway, whatever the hell it’s called, it’s chill, it’s got mellow breaks and nice ambience, and it’s great for chilling out or even falling asleep, if so desired::::: (and if you look below the video, there’s a dl link that the dude put up, too. Thank, Wil Herwig, you masterful motherfucker!)
Here you go, have it on your phone or wherever: http://dl.soundowl.com/4qhn.mp3
Hey hey, the dude also has a mix of XXYYXX. If you haven’t heard of XXYYXX by now, here:
Top Ten Chillwave Trax! by Will Dunn (aka StrangeFlow, aka 5ifty$ix K)
So, in the last few years, there’s been a new sound in music.. For now, I’m going to refer to it as ‘chillwave,’ as some other folks have been – but really, it’s a loosely applied label. It’s a broad-ranging sound, and really, it’s best to understand it (in my opinion) as more of a mood that’s taken told, rather than a genre. Alternative r&b is another label given to it. Or, just ‘vibes.’ Some of it you could call downtempo-wonky, an some of it has a decidedly throwback 80s-shoegaze-y feel to it, as well. But, as I said, it’s better to understand it, for the time being (again, in my opinion) as more of a mood that’s gotten bigger in the last few years, perhaps as a cultural shift has taken place. When you’re done raging out, and want some chill grooves (but still want the same drum boxes, grooves, and aesthetics as what you might hear in electronic or hip hop music, you might journey over to the smoking lounge, put on some chillwave shit, and chill.
Modern, retro, lush, chill, thick, vibey, and dreamy; these are all, in a surprisingly cohesive way, descriptions of this sound. As with much of the music of the Internet Generation (Ha, yea that’s right – I’m not calling it Generation Y. Sorry, condescending Baby Boomers) there is such a willingness of young people to learn about and engage themselves in a large range of artistic and musical styles that a music as open and loosely as chillwave was bound to emerge.
Also, it’s good to point out that this is often how new styles of music have always organically emerged, until corporate media whores like Rolling Stone, NME, MTV (or the idiots at VH1) pick up on – and over-label the fuck out of – it, stagnate it, look for their “Kurt Cobain” of the art form, and then, a few years later, declare it ‘passed it’s peak;’ only to pick up on the next wave of music they can jerk off and sell back to us in a cheaper, triter shell.
Or, you could look at it from a much simpler angle; people need music to chill out to, and this shit is modern chill out music, plain and simple. I say, since there are so many variations of modern hip hop-ish / electronic-ish / retro-80s-ish lush of chill out music, I’m happy to just find some good tunes and go with ’em. Eh?
Hell, I’ll probably have to do a top ten for wonky, a top ten for alt. r&b, top ten for shoegaze shit, eventually to; just to differentiate a bit. Though if there’s crossover, that’s fine. This top ten is ALL about crossover, really.
OK, Let’s get to it!
10. Washed Out – Feel it All Around
9. Neon Indian – Polish Girl
8. Flying Lotus – Massage Situation
7. Lindsay Lowend – Mmmmm
6. Flying Lotus – RobertaFlack(Mike Slott’s Other Mix)
5. Luvian – Haze
4. Samiyam – Return
I can say, from personal experience, that Samiyam is GREAT sex music ;)
3. Teedra Moses – Be Your Girl (Kaytranada Extended Edition)
2. Samiyam & Hudson Mohawke – Eff This – Juice Vol. 88
Yes, Yuri got out of jail. And, despite being the laziest person on earth (and yet claiming and bragging about the number of fans he has, of which he supposedly “gives everything to, all the time”) he was arrested for theft. He retells the tale in the video, below. Yuri claims it’s a tutorial, but it isn’t. Don’t follow in the footsteps of this fellow, he’s bad news.
Ok. So its here. It’s finally here! The sample pack to end all sample packs. Black Friday is coming… and even crazier than that… the MAYAN CALENDAR IS ENDING! OH NOOOZZZZZZZ!
OMG! 760 samples! Let me explain! As you know, the Mayan Calendar is about to end, which means absolutely nothing. However, I thought it was a fun theme for a sample pack, so I decided to go ahead and incorporate it.
So what’s inside this package?
When you download this, you will obtain links with 2 passwords. All you have to do is type the passwords in, and BOOM, you get 760 samples unlocked!
It’s quite simple, really: you simply go to the links provided, type in the passwords provided, download the files to your computer, write some sick dancefloor-killing jams, jump to the top of the Beatport charts, win fame – fortune – and a Grammy, and then have your bouncer tell Skrillex that he’s not on the guestlist and that he “won’t be able to get into the awesome party, tonight, sorry….”
We put nearly the whole store is in this package! It’s the biggest sample pack Bassadelic has ever offered! It contains multiple sample packages available on the site, but at an incredible savings!
You will get a total of 760 samples.
INCLUDING:
– The complete “500 Trap Music Vocal Samples”
– The complete “One Hundred Wonky Beats”
– The complete “StrangeFlow’s Authentic Electro Swing Samples”
– as well as a bonus: “StrangeFlow’s 30 Funky Snares”
LET ME REPEAT: You will get SEVEN-HUNDRED AND SIXTY SAMPLES!!
Why is this happening?
Because after the Mayan Calendar ends, who knows what’s going to happen?! (The answer is: NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE.)
Plus, to celebrate 100 posts/articles here at Bassadelic, we decided it would be a good thing to do to help lively things up a bit.
But at what cost, Bassadelic? at.. what.. CCOOOSSSTTT?
You can get ALL 760 SAMPLES for just 25 bucks. BOOM.
…& I can certainly tell you that you won’t get this much value for this little cost at any big-name sample stores or blogs out there. Plus, you can look at the store portion of this site and see for yourself by comparing prices – you are definitely saving a lot of money by buying this package, if you’re an electronic producer in need of some quality samples.
So that’s about all the information you’ll need. Though if you have any questions, you can always contact us at BASSADELIC.COM@GMAIL.COM or STRANGEFLOWMUSIC@GMAIL.COM
OMG! 760 samples! Let me explain! As you know, the Mayan Calendar is about to end, which means absolutely nothing. However, I thought it was a fun theme for a sample pack, so I decided to go ahead and incorporate it…
So I put together a collection of the most wonkinest beats around. And, until Schlomo or Hudson Mohawke release something similar, this’ll be your best bet at getting some quality wonky beats.
You can get the product here OR click on the download link above!
For more information on this lovely package… Check out the demo pack I’ve constructed. It’s got a small selection of tracks (FROM THE WONKY BEATS PACK!!) and they’ll give you an idea about what’s in this product…
And now, some information about this One Hundred Wonky Beats product:
Scientists have recently conlcuded that 106 BPM has the most potential for wonkyness, compared to any other BPM in the entirety of sound.
Therefor, I felt it was my duty, scientifically, to construct 100 original wonky beats, all at 106 bpm.
These beats are crumpled up, ripped in half, stubborn, and wonkiliciously funky. They borrow from the ‘offbeat’ sound made popular by Flying Lotus, Dilla, Samiyam, and Mike Slott. Utilizing a variety of influences (including funk, gabber, grime, purple, glitch hop, and hip hop) this pack has some very fun beat samples in it. I had LOTS of fun with these beats, as wonky is my favorite genre. Or… subgenre, or whatever.
I used to host The Wonky Underground radio show on Glitch.FM for awhile, and have also made a lot of decently wonky tunes, and I feel like I have a strong sense of what it means to make a wonky beat. I don’t mean to overstate the case, but remember, this is for science, afterall!
Also, I’d like to point out something I noticed when I was doing the final proofing for these beats… Aside from putting them into new tracks, they’re also quite fun to just put into a playlist and listen to them all at once. It’s like one huge, constantly-evolving wonky soundtrack.
Also, I think “beat 47” is my favorite.
Well, anyway, I guess that’s about it! I hope you enjoy these weird and wonky grooves!
-StrangeFlow
All the beats are original, sequenced, and ready to load into any music programs that are capable of loading .WAV files.
Capable with:
Acid Pro
Ableton Live
Propellerhead Reason
Logic
Recycle
& More.
For tutorials, music reviews, and musical resources for edm/bass music producers, hit up Bassadelic.com !
So, every so often, the term ‘purple’ gets thrown into music. What does it mean? What is this ‘purple’ thing about? There’s a few different styles that have incorporated the ‘purple,’ sound or mindset, and I’ll do my best to explain them to you…
Purple used to be associated as sort of a ‘royal’ color, but there are lots of uses of purple in history… For a lot of people, consciously or subconsciously, it’s a color of mystery. Prince wore a lot of purple. Hendrix wore a lot of purple. It’s an intriguing color, and some of the musicians of the last fifty years to wear it seem to have a certain exciting intrigue to them… Is it because they’re wearing purple, or because their mysterious persona gravitates towards it? I would guess it’s not the former – because if it were, that would be a prime example of faking the funk, as funk goes right along with making purple. I’ll get into that a little later.
Let’s discuss the music aspect of it. Though I did mention Jimi Hendrix, for the purposes of this article, I would instead like to point out specific styles or genres that incorporate purple, rather than individual musicians, and I think there are three main instances of ‘purple’ sounds in modern music (especially electronic music) of the last few decades –
1.) funk / ‘old-style’ electro
2.) hip hop (especially chopped ‘n screwed)
3.) wonky purple edm
Alright. So first let’s address the funky electro…
Well, basically, you can find a lot of this stuff coming from the very late 70s, and up until the early or mid 80s. It’s synthy as hell, and often employs the use of vocoders and talkboxes.
Purple is a swagger, it’s an attitude, and a lot of this music has a big dose of funk smeared all over it – and funk is an attitude and swagger as well. So, at first, you might guess there is an overlap, but in fact, I would make the argument that purple comes right out of funk. It might be seen as a subgenre, but really I think what creates the purple funk, more than anything else, is having a confident and funky outlook on things, which could, in turn, lead to a purple demeanor. Confused yet? Well, it’s not so easy making purple music, is it? Don’t worry, I’ll explain it some more. But first here’s a great example of some old electro funk, to keep you going…
The second instance of purple I want to talk about comes ten years later, in hip hop. Before I go any further, though, I should point out that a lot of hip hop in the early 80s was married to electro funk. It makes sense when you consider that hip hop, as well as purple, come right out of funk (funk spreads its seeds all over the place). That being said, hip hop in the 90s sounded quite a bit different than most of the electro funk of the 80s – especially the chopped ‘n screwed hip hop from Houston, Texas.
So, when you hear talk of purple, in reference to chopped ‘n screwed, people are usually referring to codeine / syrup / ‘lean’ / purple drank, etc; and also to chopped ‘n’ screwed music, which is kind of like a soundtrack for purple drank. It’s a sound created by DJ Screw, a DJ from Texas who made TONS of rap mixes with a heavy, heavy purple influence… Anyone who’s drank lean and then listened to DJ Screw will likely agree with me on that… The music is so slow that it’s almost scary. It really has one of the most unique sounds of any genre or subgenre I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard a great deal of music in my time. Here’s an example, if you’re not familar…
Ok, so, the third instance of purple takes place in more modern times, and in edm/rave music. Actually, I’d like to point out an article I read about ‘purple-wow,’ a phrase which I’ve never heard anyone use in real life, but just the same, it’s a relevant article, and yo might want to check it out here: http://generationbass.com/2009/08/17/the-purple-wow-sound-g-funk-meets-dubstep/ Their definition of this sounds is, basically, “G-Funk meets Dubstep = Purple Wow Sound!” .. personally, I think you can easily go beyond dubstep with it, and also, “Purple Wow,” is a really cumbersome and wonky name for anything.. And also, I think something’s to be said for the wonkiness of the sound.. I think it has a lot to do with making funky music, with it’s unique style of wonky / off / almost dissonant melody.
For example, if you start playing a melody (and wonky melodies often employ the use of square waves, btw) people might think your melody is going in a certain direction – but then, all of a sudden, one of the notes just rises an extra octave or two, and the next note clashes! Then the melody goes back to normal, then it drops an extra octave or two, just for a note, and then raises up in pitch to normal, and repeats that cycle, over and over. That’s just one of a few ways to incorporate a wonky / purple melody. Killing the expectation goes along way here, musically. You can really create a wonky off-type of sound by leading people on and then going in a decidedly different, weirder direction. Sometimes it even sounds ugly. This also goes along with funk. ‘Funk’ was originally a term used to describe jazz music, as in, ‘smear some funk on that melody,’ etc.
Exactly! Smear some nasty, funky purple all over your melody!
Also, don’t forget about the rhythm. I know I’ve mentioned this before, and one of my very first video tutorials was about it. Wonky / off-beat rhythms have gone into a lot of interesting songs that hail the label of ‘purple’ as their weird and funky flag. I like artists such as Joker, Ginz, some Joy Orbison, and the tune, ‘Drippin’ by Mimosa is also pretty purple and crunky.
(I have also seen the term, ‘wonky’ used to describe specific techno and trance tracks, like the one by Paul Van Dyke or whomever… the track is called ‘wonky,’ and I think it basically just means high-pitched or ugly, or something like that. I hate what techno has tried to do with wonky, it’s boring, and they use the term in the blandest and most boring ways imaginable, and I refuse to write about it anymore than I am right now.)
Anyway, here’s a good wonky purple tune for ya, from Joker…
So, in conclusion, incorporating elements from any of these styles can help you create a nice, funky, purplish sound. There’s obviously overlap, stylistically, as you could go right ahead and create a chopped ‘n screwed type of wonky beat, with vocodor and electro funk influences, if you wanted to. No reason to stifle yourself creatively, when going for the purple! Another example of overlap could be how you might see the word ‘crunk’ a lot more in electronic music now, even though that style came directly out of from hip hop.
So, as far as the last few decades of purple go, there’s the purple electro funkishness, the purple drank chopped ‘n screwed stuff, and the modern ravey dubstep or post-dubstep square wave / wonky funk stuff, which often incorporates the hip hop and electro funk stuff, too. Really, any of the influences I described can be taken and smeared in any direction you might want to take them. If you find yourself gravitating towards purple, perhaps you’re in a good position to purple-up some new styles of funk that the world hasn’t even heard, yet! I’d be down to listen to some new purple, any damn day.