Track: Ebb & Flow – Original Sound Distortion Mix

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 [...]

Track: This Ain’t A Track (It’s A Movement) – Original Mix

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 [...]

Track: Bouncesation (Original Mix)

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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 [...]

Track: Compressor (Original Mix)

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Style: Electro House
BPM: 132
Production time: 3 days
Comments: My first track for 2.5 years, and my first using Ableton 7.0. Think of this more of an “experiment” – I was learning to use a new piece of software and the various plug-ins and soft-synths that are contained within the Ableton Live suite.
The [...]