New Tribal/Tech/Electro House Remix

[Khazul]

Happy new year to everyone - may this be the best year yet!

To kick it off - turn this up LOUD! - remix work in progress - just wanted to post before heading out :)

http://www.beatportal.com/remix/detail/witch-doktor-adamg-shamans-remix/

See you on the other side :)

[Khazul]

at http://www.beatportal.com/remix/detail/witch-doktor-adamg-shamans-remix/

Enjoy! :)

[nutrinoland]

hi....i hhave a few questions about your track,if its ok...
did u use the virus to make this?? are you just remixing it??
i was wondering how to mix drums like djembes, bongos and other tribal drums with my Kick,Bass,snare.... i end up with MUD...
i really like the movement with all the sounds in the break...

cool track..

[Khazul]

There is a little bit of virus in it - though as samples sounds which were reversed. The only sound from the original stems are the title witch doktor sample, the tribal chant loop at the start (but thats heaviliy re-grooved), the yell sample and a couple of loops with the putz vocal in them. The rest of the track is mine (ie most of the tribal stuff, rhythm, bass sounds, synths, fx etc, though used some library loops I have as basis for some of the rhythm and much of the percussion parts) - search for the title on youtube to hear the original.

As for all the perc bits, some of them are loops that have been heavily processed. I wanted to get a feel of a huge number of hand drums, so layered alot of percussion loops.

As you say, when you do that, you can very easily just end up with mud, so dont be afraid to make liberal use of gates, compressors, eq etc to get them to sit together. Listen to each sound/loop and work out what important from each - use gating/eq/sample (or even sidechain gating, sidechain compression etc) editing to get rid of the rest.

Sometimes you may actually want a very muddy feel to the perc (because you want the impresion of a huge number of drums) - in which use a kick or other sounds to key a compressor over the loops mix to get some space back for other parts.

[nutrinoland]

thanks for the info.....i will experiment some more with fitting tribal/hand drums into my tracks....

would love to hear any of your other stuff too....more tracks with mainly virus used....

thanks
:D

[Khazul]

If you can actually play percusion - can definately recommend a Roland HPD-10 - thats what I use sometimes if Im in the mood to actually record something (I get lazy and use loops/samples alot though ;)).

As for other stuff of mine - there is a load of random stuff in various stages of completion on my Sound Cloud page - see sig below - thats where I tend to post stuff for preview etc. Hope you enjoy :)

Sunset and Moments of Clarity are tracks from a few years ago - all synth parts in those are Virus. Inner City is a mix of Virus and V-Synth. Others I cant remember off hand - quite a fewhave Virus bits in them - been using soft synths and DIY instruments made out of samples more and more recently.

Ive found myself using the Virus TI less and less TBH recently - more because Ive just been gettting alot of reliability issues with it recently - with deadlines looming for stuff its just far easier to use something else at times. I think my PC is probably long overdue for reformatting :)

[nutrinoland]

cool...thanks....i will listen to your other tracks too....
:D

[AlexHall74]

Khazul, your track kicks ass!


THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT!!!!!!!!

:-)

-Alex

[Khazul]

LOL - Cheers :)