Ghostly voices, ethereal pads, industrial atmospheres and hard hitting drums - just some of the ingredients in the recipe of a murdered out Techno tune. Yet the beauty of Darbe comes in making it sound enigmatic and reflective. It has all it's dark elements lined up right from the start delving deeper into the chaotic madness of imaginary voices, but it's the moments of light that take this track to a new level. It doesn't simply rely on keeping sound gritty and mechanical; there are human touches omnipresent that elevate the sound to deeper, airy territories - playful arps, sublime pads and rare twinkle of bells, choirs and assuring vocal samples. This interplay of the contrasting elements is what personally stands this tune apart - it's not formulaic or stale, the inspired passion behind it flows out of every carefully crafted sound, making the progression exciting, surprising you multiple times throughout and given you a plenty to grasp to while being completely entranced by it's stomping energy.
What is Tune of the Day?
Something that I do for my rising revelations series is search for new music daily. So it is only natural that I should be sharing some of the daily highlights as too often the tracks are amazing but they don't make it into a final episode as they might not fit that week's mood or concept.
More than anything, the reasoning behind the series was always sharing new exciting music by artists that are longing to be heard so any extra exposure is a good thing.
All artists featured on the blog are contacted and notified of the post, and get a gentle nudge to join this incredible community.
I love putting my feelings about music into writing so each post will also have a couple of my own words on why I love that particular track and how I perceive it, a mini-review of sorts.
As an added bonus all tracks featured are available for a free download, generously provided by the artists. Please enjoy them in your music players, DJ sets and shared playlists and endorse hard work of some talented people.
New Orleans! I used to live down there!
Wonderful work you have here man, subscribed to your page.
What DAW are you working with? I'm really digging the punch on those kicks!
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Thank you, @squares for your wonderful comment. For the Tune of the Day series, all music I feature is not my own productions but rather music I find while I crate dig for my DJ stuff.
I did manage to visit New Orleans this past Christmas and will have to agree with you, it's a truly wonderful place.
I appreciate you subscribing to the blog, I will continue to bring excellent music from artists I find as well as my own production and hardware jam stuffs eventually.
So to answer your question my current setup consists of a bunch of stuff, I have Circuit, OP1, all Volcas, Shruthi, and a multi-effect unit for my hardware jams and I use Maschine and Ableton for in-the-box productions.
Look forward to continue chatting music with you, thanks again for checking out my blog. Much appreciated!
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I'm really surprised how much use I've gotten from the Circuit. Love that box.
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Same. I got an OP1 shortly after that and I still to this day haven't gelled with it as much as I did with my Circuit and just sheer fun and pickability of it. Anytime I turn it on for 5 minutes I end up making some kind of a small tune.
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I ALMOST got a maschine a few months ago and ended up getting a TR-8 instead... still regretting that decision. Sounds like you got a great setup man. I’m digging it.
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Thanks @squares, I try to squash my GAS so haven't been purchasing anything for a while now, though I do want to extend my setup, but also need to be patient and work with tools I have acquired. I have to say though Maschine is mighty powerful, just the quality of sound it produces is well worth getting the ecosystem. But I heard good things about TR-8, good drum machine for sure, albeit a little limited (but limits can be good, it depends on your use of course).
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It’s limited as far as sounds are concerned (to my knowledge) I really wish you could load samples into it, but I LOVE the side chain abilities of the tr-8.
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There are some more interesting drum machines out there for sure! TR-8 is more of a solid 808 and 909 workhorse. For affordable sample-oriented drum machines I'd recommend to look into Volca Sample or Circuit.
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I'll look into those! Thank you!
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the dark, twisted voices are presented so well here I'm loving it
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Yea, it's an interesting tune, it grabbed me right away, but as I was re-listening to it over and over for the review, I realized it has much more to it than even my initial impression of it. Glad you enjoyed it man! Cheers.
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Will check out your page, it sounds like a curious pitch ;)
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