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I need to let you know about this song. It’s called, “Ice” by Camel. The first time I was shown this song by a close friends of mine, I was very thankful and it touched my heart. The melody is so beautiful and gliding that you don’t really feel like you are listening to music. It feels more like you are having an intimate experience with respect and appreciation itself. To think that Andy Latimer and the rest of Camel decided to share this piece of music with the rest of the world by recording and distributing it boggles me. It seriously sounds like you are having access to a living soul and are allowed to let it connect with your mind and spirit. There aren’t any vocals in the song. But I feel like the artists are totally spilling their guts on this piece. The song has a guitar line that is drenched with emotion and sensitivity. Every note plays with sincerity and accuracy. If you like Pink Floyd, there is a good chance you will like this song. It’s one of those pieces of music that I listen to when I’m like, “Hey, I’m in the mood to listen some of the best music of all time.” So I put Ice on.

Electric Light Orchestra - Here Is The News

“Here Is the News” is one of my all time favorite songs. It comes from the ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) album called, Time. This song is from, 1981 and the music was WAY ahead of its time. You’ll find that the vocals are extremely fresh. And the samples used are layered with perfection, probably one of the best examples of psychedelic vocal sampling layering that I can think of. There’s something exhilarating about how “Here Is the News” starts. It opens up with an orchestral deluge that doesn’t ask your permission to make you feel godlike. Then the beat kicks in and pulls you along into an upbeat electronic sonic jog. The synthesizers lay down lines of musical genius that are very pleasing to the ear. I remember blasting this song when I lived in San Francisco almost every day because I love it so much. It lifts you up. “Here Is the News” is only about 3 minutes and 45 seconds long but it packs a serious punch and there is a lot of musical things happening in that short time.

The reason why I say that this song is a musical masterpiece is because of the amount of pleasure it gives the listener after each listen. This song feels good to listen to. And it doesn’t get old either. It is the kind of song that you listen to until you memorize and then listen to it in your mind whenever you want. Oftentimes in music there are spots that sound only average or aren’t superb, but in “Here Is the News” every note is perfection, in spite of some serious polyphony. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 100 years this song is put in the same box as renown sections of classical masterpieces.

Make a Reese Drum and Bass Sound

Have you ever wanted to know how to make that chunky lead “Reese” sound in Drum and Bass music? This video below is a cool tutorial on how to make that kind of sound using the software program known as Reason. This video is great because it shows the multiple steps required for making the Reese sound. The video is made by pandadnb.com which is a youtube channel that has lots of mixes of Drum and Bass music. The reason why I think this is a great video is because it clearly explains the process of making a key element of popular DnB music. The video is a little more than eight minutes long and I think it’s worth every second. I look forward to hearing your amazing creations in Drum and Bass. If you watch this video and make some cool music. Please become my friend on Facebook by clicking the Facebook badge on the left and message me about your latest creations. The video is embedded below for your convenience.

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It’s not everyday that I listen to brand-new and unique electronic music. But tonight was my lucky time, because I got to listen to Gamma Rain. Gamma Rain is an experimental electronic project by Tim Allen. Now I am pretty sure this is the same person who makes music who is known as Derj. But this Gamma Rain music is less aggressive and more experimentally electronic than Derj. This song, “Rudimentary Failure” is mind bending to say the least. It has three primary movements and it uses tweaky digital sounds that seem to warp my brain patterns as if to wake me out of a trance. I always knew that music affected brain frequencies via sonic interference but Gamma Rain’s “Rudimentary Failure” really made this way of thinking concrete. It’s not that I feel smarter after listening to the song over and over again, it’s more like I feel slightly more alert and aware. This is sharp music. You can’t help but be changed a little by it.

The first movement of “Rudimentary Failure” is an upbeat, positive, almost playful beginning. It sounds like you are in a digital forest in the winter. And the snow is falling on the electronic pond and is making music as each snowflake hits the surface and ripples vibration patterns of binary code on the water. The drums sound like they are being played by buck-toothed squirrels. The squirrels are playing the beats on over-sized, hollowed out acorns.

The second movement is the brain reprogramming part. At first the left channel sound, seems to be kind of wierd and uninviting. But then after a few patterns it sounds like it is flipping a switch in my brain. Almost accessing areas of the mind that were dormant.

The final movement includes cool tonal samples of human voices that bounce in the center of the mix. It actually sounds like there is music right in front of me, even though I am listening to it on headphones.

I am really excited to listen to what other new music Gamma Rain has in store for us. I definitely like this experimental style that is set forth in “Rudimentary Failure.” I am going to keep an eye on Gamma Rain because I think he is really onto something here. The music coming out of this artist is very unique and seems to belong to its own style.

-Tyler