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Brand new EP from DJ Delay: MIDI East
Since the release of the critically acclaimed “Brass Wires & Bass” album, DJ Delay has been busy performing around the globe and über productive in the studio. Playing shows from Australia to America, including the Glastonbury, Exit and Fusion festivals has provided plenty of inspiration for his sonic laboratory. In addition he’s remixed over a dozen world wide bass artists . Just in time for the 2012 Summer season, Beaming Productions is totally chuffed to present the MIDI East EP.
To the music – 4 deep and layered tracks, which delve into some of the music of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, disregarding visa controlled borders. Instead of audio tourism and simple phrase looping there’s thoughtful re-treading of solid melody. The focus is also not on homage to icons of the past via sampling, but on building the tracks from the ground up via soft synths and live recording. For this EP, 2 of the tracks have been blessed with the excellent ‘bouzoucaster’ (custom built hybrid fender guitar/bouzouki) & Qarqabeb playing of Berlin musician Shazam (Piranha records).
Tracks in brief:
1. Baga Cumbia is velvety cumbia with a Turkish twist - complete with liquid drum and bass.
2. Ustunde mixes Turkish lines with Chinese Zither into an outdoor Berlin tech house track.
3. Xopo mashes an angular 11/16 Tallava bassline with deep house.
4. Maricensko takes Bulgarian flavours headlong into deep, epic, heavy dubstep territory.
Each of the four are brilliantly polished & well tested on the dancefloors of the EU and North America in the early part of 2012.
Mastering magic by Jammin’ Masters and artwork by Metalanguage Design.
Purchasing links:
http://www.junodownload.com/products/midi-east/1969431-02/
http://itunes.apple.com/au/preorder/midi-east-ep/id527690063
BEAM06 MIDI East EP: Out May 28th in Soulseduction & June 12, 2012 in all good digital stores.
For interviews promo CDs & hi res images please get in touch via the contact details below.
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- What's The Project?
MIDI east is:
--- a MIDI pack of East-Euro/West Asian music
--- an open Soundcloud group
--- a digital/other format EP release for DJ Delay
--- an open-to-everyone project
all rolled into one.
The idea is to focus attention away from audio-sampling and onto feeding all those softsynths, samplers lurking on your computer with rich&raw MIDI .
Almost all the music within comes from the Balkans/Turkey - there's some pretty wild stuff in there... and also some fromage too.
DJ Delay has made some interpretations from these files & a preview of 4 tracks are here.....
So, what happens is....
- You get the big ole bunch of midi files to play with...
- If you wish to do so, put the resulting track(s) in the soundcloud group made for the project (it will grow...and grow....)
- DJ Delay releases his versions and other producers do the same however they choose.
- What's in the MIDI pack?
Over 9000 midi files covering mainly Turkish/Middle Eastern tunes, with some Balkan, Greek are there in the pack.
- How to use them?
.....entirely up to you... of course. The MIDI data is a combination of live playing and machine-sequenced.
As the live parts have occasional fluffed notes/timing shifts etc.... they sound more natural and any real bloopers just get edited..or not...
Drop the midi file into your DAW of choice...Logic, Protools, Cubase etc.
Note: Ableton live does not handle multi-channel MIDI files. You will get all channels mixed into one - not very helpful!
For Ableton - you must first use cubase/cakewalk/protools/logic etc to extract the different MIDI channel instrument notes&info.
Many of the tunes are traditional, but some are published, so check it out if you intend to commercially release your creation - search engines are your friend here.
MIDI files can be previewed on a Mac simply in the Finder and on Windows machines using Windows Media Player.
- Where is the Soundcloud group?
http://soundcloud.com/groups/midi-east
When you upload a track you made to the Soundcloud group, it would be good to put the original MIDI file name in the description, but that's up to you.
- Where are the MIDI files?
The MIDI library can be found by typing BULBUL MIDI arsivi into your favourite search engine (or click here for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sugexp=chrome,mod=5&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=bulbul+midi+arsivi">google</a>). This library has been floating around online (author unknown) for a long time now. It is usually available as 2 or 3 rar archive files. Anyone experiencing difficulty with downloading can contact the label for advice. Producers are invited to upload their own music produced using the MIDI library to the specially created MIDI East Soundcloud group, making the project organic, open and ever expanding. Thanks for reading.....looking forward to listening......
Just to be 100% sure - this is no competition or invitation to be part of a 'traditional' release....
IT IS an invitation to use a really great resource and let your imagination run and put the results in 1 central place - the Soundcloud group.
What you do with the track(s) in the end ...is up to you!
Thanks for reading.....looking forward to listening......
www.beamingproductions.com/label
www.brian-may.net/djdelay
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-BEAMING PROD - CATALOGUE-
BEAM06 DJ Delay - MIDI East EP + MIDI pack + Soundcloud group
BEAM05 Municipale Balcanica - Foua 1.1 EP
BEAM04 Sonical - Breakshake
BEAM03 V/A - Beyond The Kolo
BEAM02 Beam Up - Terra Sonica
BEAM01 DJ Delay - Brass Wires & Bass
- Genre
- world wide bass