It’s been 8 months since my last confession. Well, not really – but it has been that long since my last full production.
I’ve been learning more and more about Ableton and have been working on several projects at once.
Hopefully by the end of January 2010 (!) I’ll have a mash-up mix to [...]

Ebb & Flow (Original Mix) by ShiftGorden

Style: House/electro
BPM: 132
Production Time: 2 months (on and off)
Comments:

UPDATE: 05/31/09 – I remastered again.  After a mixing session, I realized my beats were too loud and the instrumentation was too quiet.  This remix now accounts for that.  I’ve added a few bonus bits, too.  The new MP3 [...]

This Ain’t A Track (Movement Original Mix) by ShiftGorden

Style: House
BPM: 130
Production time: 5 days
Comments: This track went off in several different directions before slowly gelling together – the number of mental blocks on this one was almost unbelievable.
I kept the beats nice and simple, and opted for closed hi-hats on [...]

DownloadBouncesation
Style: House
BPM: 132
Production time: 1 day
Comments: This is my second Ableton Live “experiment.”  This time I tried to do everything using Ableton’s soft-synth collection.
The bass drum and snares where programmed using the Operator synth, and passed through a compressor and some EQ to add a little more tone and punch.  The hats and percussion section [...]

After a hiatus of nearly 3 years from producing music, I decided to download a demo of Ableton Live 7.0.
I must say, I was darn impressed – impressed enough to convince my wife that I needed the $800 software (well, $400 since my wife is a student – whoop!)
During the trial period, I managed to [...]