recorded some bossa nova chords a few days ago on my iPod.

on the way home from returning some videos last night i started remixing them, adding some 808 kicks.

i think i could spend all day adding different 808 kicks to whatever i’m experiencing.

the only thing is that the kicks here don’t sound like they did when i was making them. they’re more like blips now.

i can never get the bass to come out deep enough in the mixdown.

like garlic, red wine, and waves, you can never have enough bass.

i used to make fun of those low rider dudes in high school that sat out in the parking lot showing off the subwoofers in their mustangs or IROC cameros or whatever.

whatever you make fun of ends up being your master.

played around with some guitar recordings on my iPod while on the chairlift in cerro catedral.

image: phil more

notes:

• field recording of candombe beats from feria in el bolson
• 808 kicks / synth programmed on iPod using nanostudio while walking around
• tempo: 115.4 if anyone wants any loops from this

My friend Justin Forthuber (J.L. Kane) is making some super sick beats out in Boulder these days.

My brother just dug up this pic of me playing his kit circa 2002, Marietta, Georgia. The recording was a sketch of the rhythms we were working on at the time, a one-drop to breaks thing played live. I was on bass, my bro’s the real drummer.