(ambient, Instrumental, HipHop): UPPEKHA – Gleichmut – equanimity

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Tobi Rice
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08 Jun 2018

Hello ReasonTalk People,

I want to introduce my current project to you. The last few months have been a very memorable and enriching time for me. I travelled across Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Cambodia. Equipped with a Zoom H4n Pro recorder and an Akai MPKmini controller. The travel brought me a lot of inspiration and I managed to realize my plan. The music was written exclusively in reason because I only use reason. Very often I walked through the cities and parks to record guitar players, drummers or nature and ambient sounds. later I have edited these sounds and saved them in project folders in my accommodation or in coffeeshops or just on some bench. As soons as I felt I have enough material, I started to write my songs. So I total it took me around 5 months but I only was working on it when I really felt like making music. As soon as I felt aversion, I put the music aside and dedicated myself to other things. That's why I enjoyed it very much. completely without stress and overwork.

I would be very happy if you would listen to my project “UPPEKHA” and give me your opinion.



I love this forum and can learn a lot here to acquire skills and knowledge.


Best regards,
Tobi Rice
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jimmyklane
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09 Jun 2018

So I’ve listened to the first three tracks. I always check mixes first on my iPhone...for some reason I’m able to hear what’s missing (if anything) in a mix from these extremely mid-rich speakers. I love the samples, I love the mellow vibes, and overall your sound choices seem to fit really well together!
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Micha1973
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09 Jun 2018

Anklang is my fav. so i would like to to a remix or an co-production

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Tobi Rice
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11 Jun 2018

Thank you for the feedback jimmyklane. In retrospect, i think i broke the sample quality a bit during the mastering process. I wanted to raise the volume a bit and end up with a background noise that wasn't there before. But mastering is new territory for me, so I'm happy for the first project. I really like your song "A Bitter Pill" on SC.

@ Micha1973: Sure, i would be happy to hear another version of it. Can you send me your e-mail adress via PM so i can provide a dropbox-link with the audio stems.
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Kalm
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11 Jun 2018

Dude this is good. I like the way you worked with the samples. Roughly how much was synths vs. samples if you care to tell. I'm really interested in the sound design.
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jayhosking
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12 Jun 2018

There are some really terrific samples, and terrific spliced-sounding moments, on this record. I'm not as fond of some of the more traditional electronic-music elements, namely in the drums/percussion, but I really love the timbre and sonic character of many of the melodic elements.

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Tobi Rice
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14 Jun 2018

@ Kalm: Thank you, I´m glad you like it. Roughly I think it`s around 60% Samples (30% own Recordings and 30% samples from cd`s and yt) and 40% Synths. But samples and synths i usually bounce to place and transpose, pitch, stretch, mangle, reverse it and everything else that flip and manipulate the audio file. I also use Serato Sample a lot.

@ jayhosking: Thanks for your feedback! I totally can understand your opinion about the electronic drum and percussion elements. i know it`s far from perfect and still a long way to go, but it`s my intention and my target to melt this sonic and timbre sounds and the electronic sounds togehter.
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motuscott
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14 Jun 2018

I dug it. Nice clean production, succinct music ideas.
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