jahknow

Mmm wobble.
Great intro, groovy drums are cool, I like the reggae sense in it, nice upbeat happy dub. Awesome acidey synth at 1:40, I really love that.
Great track.

P.S, this is my 300th review :D

jahknow replied Unknown

Het thanks Helix

Badhuman 22nd Jun 2009 05:27 - 16 years ago

on Menelik Depatment by jahknow

Rad dude. RAddy rad rad.

jahknow replied Unknown

Thanks for the review sir! glad you liked it.

n0mad23 19th Jun 2009 00:23 - 16 years ago

on Your Natty is your Beauty by jahknow

Nice and thick like the room's air after a good session. Crank that reverb! I really like how there are sounds I haven't heard since the late `80's coming out of Kingston, but they're combined with effects that didn't become available until much later. Very dynamic and progressive. But what works for me beyond all else is its INTENSITY. Bloody brilliant.
(PostScript) - Man, I keep coming back to this one and it's my favorite track of all time on this site. Shades of Mickey Dread on PacNorthwest greenery. Too much!

jahknow replied Unknown

Awesome review! That's awesome man keep rockin it.

Acrylic 17th Jun 2009 15:28 - 16 years ago

on Menelik Depatment by jahknow

Groovy, that bass moves in who knows what direction. Cool play all around i still am unsure of what makes a Dub song though. Oh well. Good work.

jahknow replied Unknown

A dub track , originally, meant a B side take of a reggae single that has been stripped of vocals and remastered by the studio engineer using copious amounts of effects. These takes are often over dubbed sessions where the producer 'tweaks' the effects knobs for each individual track to make a much more spacious and often ethereal mix.

bless! :D

helven 14th Jun 2009 02:27 - 16 years ago

on Wadada by jahknow

love the old sound, its great.

same with the track loved the bass line alot, percussion was great and i enjoyed this one =]

def will check out more of your stuff

alividlife 13th Jun 2009 03:54 - 16 years ago

on Wadada by jahknow

heh, i remember reading an article about analog and digital saturation...

the interesting thing they find is that analog sound "folds" upon peaking, whereas digital distortion/saturation just continues for ever at it's peak pace.

really digging this one (and in all cases, i am usually against happy music lol)... loving the escapism of it.

great panning, great mixing, and mastering...

what the fuck is wadada?

srknckr 12th Jun 2009 22:53 - 16 years ago

on Your Natty is your Beauty by jahknow

Hey this is really a good work. I just didnt like the reverb of the snare. i think it is too much. but still cool.

n0mad23 10th Jun 2009 22:27 - 16 years ago

on Wadada by jahknow

Nice and dubby! Love those deep frappping basses especially dancing alongside those keyboard beats with definite roots in reggae dub sensibility. Sweet tasty treat here!

gilachode 8th Jun 2009 15:09 - 16 years ago

on Wadada by jahknow

jahhhhhhhhhhhh Dub GOLD ;]
chiilll beat with a faster flow = always good combo for dub.

CONEYISLANDRECORDS 7th Jun 2009 22:30 - 16 years ago

on Wadada by jahknow

I never really new what dub step was but if this is dub than Im diggin it. I like doing tracks like this myelf. I just labeled them abstract. Sub rumbling good time!

blackryan 6th Jun 2009 09:12 - 16 years ago

on Your Natty is your Beauty by jahknow

I like it - definitely sounds like dub 2 me! Loads of reverbs and echoes & delay. A very experimental music form as pioneered by Tubby et al. Worthy of more reviews this one!

DextDee 3rd Jun 2009 03:22 - 16 years ago

on Your Natty is your Beauty by jahknow

frankly, i have heard these kinda songs but dumb me i did not call it dub, though it was ragga or ragae, not sure, but man!! this one here is bobling me with a spine injury now, lol jk, but good stuff here.

DextDee

phantomhim 2nd Jun 2009 14:07 - 16 years ago

on Your Natty is your Beauty by jahknow

Nice, pretty different sounding dub. Some interesting sounds in there. Good stuff.

MEDICALMARIJUANA 4th May 2009 16:35 - 16 years ago

on Give Thanks and Praises in Dub by jahknow

I have been listening 2 dub reggae ever since I went 2 my cousins apartment in Amsterdam in 1992,I was 22 and we smoked de big spliff listening 2 THE SCIENTIST 1979-82 SPACE INVADERS---DUB LANDING. That stuff 2 this day gives me happy memories of my experimental youth.

treetop 29th Apr 2009 15:02 - 16 years ago

on Rootical by jahknow

haha this is a lil bit of everythang.music with no boundaries. i'm digging this!!

NeotericTunes 26th Apr 2009 23:39 - 16 years ago

on Give Thanks and Praises in Dub by jahknow

Nice! i have never heard before about "Dub", but i like it! how did you make that phat base?

DuBzReCoRdInGsTuDiO 23rd Apr 2009 19:57 - 16 years ago

on Rootical by jahknow

u know wot bruv u got mad skillz man, i got nuff respect for you, i listened to quite a bit ov ur music now and i know u got skillz man, def in my to 10 looperman artists (and ive listened to hundredz man), keep em kummin G

jahknow replied Unknown

THANX mon! I'm beginning to feel like this song has gotten more positive feedback than any! I'm actually inspired now to go back and look at this track, analyze it's composition and do some variations on a theme. It was pretty damn complex in it's structures etc. I can't even begin to go into how the drumlines were spliced and re-spliced. But I'll get in there and figure it out. Thanx bruv.

CiOnDaddy 23rd Apr 2009 06:47 - 16 years ago

on Rootical by jahknow

I like it you you are very good.God bless you man

brandonjames 19th Apr 2009 21:10 - 16 years ago

on Give Thanks and Praises in Dub by jahknow

Great track , but I need your help, Ive been making music for 11 yrs, and i know this sounds dumb but.... what makes a track "DUB"? I have no idea on what makes a track go in the "DUB" genre, so hit me back, great track and keep rockin'!

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jahknow replied Unknown

Dub is a musical description for a tune that has been 'effected' n a way that creates large spaces, open spaces in between notes and often uses elements from many genres to create one piece of music.

Traditionally dubs were the B side release of a reggae 7" single where the vocals have been removed and the producer has used an array of delays, reverbs and other effects to stamp a song with their 'style'. Those B sides were often more popular thatn the A side single because it allowed an MC to spit out some lyrics in the dancehall party.

If you got a minute check out Mad Professor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIwZbn26eJc

A true born African mystic he is! A true master! You'll always be able to tell a MP produced tune!

Glad you liked it!

ChaseManhattan 10th Apr 2009 16:42 - 16 years ago

on Music for the machine by jahknow

im in outer space on this one....

floating

forever
and
ever
and
ever

i dunno the sounds are really impressive. how did you make those wierd noises? its good music thats all i gotta say

jahknow replied Unknown

All those sounds came out of NI Massive synth and Drumatic drum synth. Now how exactly they've been used and reused to create this sound is somethign I couldn't even begin to describe, but I'll try.

It's something like sampled and resampled synth loops that have been re-sliced into midi warpable sequences. These re-sliced sequences are then controlled by an array or arpeggiator effects to create the massive syncopation throughout. It's a mad trick on re-mapping and warping loop length/compression and start offset of each slice.

I'd almost wanna do a video tutorial on the idea, but then I'd let the cats out of their bags... so to speak! ;) glad you liked it.

BigJoWezy 10th Apr 2009 02:52 - 16 years ago

on Give Thanks and Praises in Dub by jahknow

this is tight praise him tonight is the passover but thank God i didnt have to fast from looperman God Bless

DjSomnium 29th Mar 2009 15:00 - 16 years ago

on Rootical by jahknow

nice!! this has such a chilled ambient feel to it!! i think the slow buulding piano stab pad in the background is at just the right level and adds a new dimention to this song! Its not a familar beat so im not sure what genre this would be! i mean its not D&B, and im not sure about the conventions of glitch so i couldnt say on that one! The clicky sounding beat adds a nice level of vareity as well, and so does the hi hat/cymbal. How did you do this drumbeat? nice work man!! check out my new track "Sunset Mix" sometime? i need some feedback sometime :D keep it up! -Lorin (Dj Somnium)

jahknow replied Unknown

That beat came outta some seriously wacked warping and re-mapping. I think I started with a RnB style riddim sped way up. Created a midi instrument with the beat by re-slicing in Ableton and then warping the loop lengths and compression amounts of each slice. I'll have to reopen the original file to get a clearer description for you, but it was quite complex the remapping.

I'm pretty sure the entire thing came outta 2-3 resampled beat lines and a synth chord. It was a test in creative layering. Glad you liked it. Thanx for the review mek!

CONEYISLANDRECORDS 27th Mar 2009 09:03 - 16 years ago

on Music for the machine by jahknow

Totaly had me staring off at shit! Way cool. I never heard this type stuff till I got on this site a month ago. I took a stab at it my self. Check it out and let me know what you think. Again, cool track!

jahknow replied Unknown

Thanx! I'll give your track a listen up.

BigPete 11th Mar 2009 20:22 - 16 years ago

on Menelik Depatment by jahknow

I like it when people go outside the boundaries in arragements, I'm to square a lot of time in my music, this shows what amazing soundscape you can create when you dare, sometimes it does not work, but here it does, great production and sound helps, this has it all, good job.

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