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CD Track Listing - Maestri::Anti Plastic Grooves

  1. Projected - Mellow Ambient Drum & Bass
  2. Dreaming in Overdrive - Soundtack-Like, Matrix / Mission Impossible
  3. Vega - Bouncy Ambient House
  4. Element - Smooth Bassy Big Beat
  5. Radiation - Fast Trance House
  6. Ultravisionary - Deep Bassy Aphex Twin Style Rhythms
  7. Surfacing Alone - Smooth Progressive House
  8. Walking Scene - Groove Armada Style Conga Grooves
  9. Maestri Theme - Dramatic Orchestral House
  10. Kavatron - Ambient Harmonic House
  11. East of Everything - Deep Bass Echo House
  12. Vanilla Sunrise - Jazzy 4-4 House
  13. Drift - Mellow Orchestral Big Beat

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Here Are a Few of My Older Tracks, Ordered Somewhat Chronologically

Below you will find a listing of a good deal of the music I have created since roughly 2003. I will try to provide download links as they become available.

Drift

Yet another highly melodic work of The Mixd. Again, this was done is Reason using the basic Reason samples, so the violins and orchestral stuff sounds similar to "Dreaming in Overdrive", yet it is a very different track. This one is very mellow, even has a piano in it. It relies less on loops and more on improvisation; thus it is somewhat short. I hope to make the final version around 6 - 8 minutes long as opposed to 3:20. From listening a few times I think I will probably change up the beat alot more as well.

Dreaming in Overdrive

Ahhh, my first, well, third song ever created in Reason. (For non-audio people Reason is just another of those crazy sound programs.) Until now I haven't been able to get it to work with my computer because of latency issues with my sound card. I recently figured out how to get the delay from 170ms down to 33ms, so now I can actually work with rhythms and such. This one is quite beyond all my other work as far as it's melodic content. I will definitely tweak the beat a bit before this goes on the CD.

Rock Out

This is basically just me messing around on the guitar and bass with the new M-Audio card. I have a super crappy mic that I put like 1mm from the guitar amp to record this. The sound is doubled because it just sounds cool that way. About half way through I added in a mellow synth to bring out a little more of the electronic element.

Radiation

Cool bass sounds in this one. Alot of congas and such, but nothing overpowering. I added a cool stereo panned ride to really push along the beat. Overtop of everything is this real repetitive trance-inducing synth noise. There's no real melody in this one, but it really doesn't need it.

Kavatron

Named "Kavatron" because of it's mellow euphoric qualities. So I was sitting there trying to name this, and I saw some of those un-cracked pistachio nuts on my desk. I want to eat them, but the amount of work it would require to get the nut out the shell just wouldn't counter-balance the enjoyment I'd get from eating it. Or would it.

Walking Scene

This song is made up of mostly re-discovered samples I found in a box in my room. I named it "Walking Scene" because I could picture someone walking down a street with this playing in the background. I though about adding vocals, but couldn't think of anything that would fit well so here it is...

Skull Spider

One of my more melodic works. Tweaked a saw wave like whoa to make the main melody. Every sound in this one was carefully tweaked to fit in just right. My first song mixed in multiple monitors. I switched between 2 sets of cheap speakers and my headphones and got it to sound right in all of them. This one may be vinyl-worthy.

Photonics

Kinda electro-house vibe to this one. Took forever to get the simple melodies in this one to flow with the few samples I had to work with. Some say it's a bit over-flanged... If I get enough requests and am not feeling lazy I may fix it. There's also a pop in there somewhere which wouldn't go away... some kinda anomaly in the software I was using, because it became audible only when the thing was rendered. Oh well. One of my housie favorites.

Ineffected

This started out as an experimental track with weird synth sounds and a really sporadic drum beat. As I started to sequence it, I decided to put in a more straightforward beat around 1:40. The flow of this song is quite different as it simply builds up to the main beat, has a quick breakdown, then ends. The name? Not sure really... This one will be re-mixed if it makes it to CD.

East Of Everything

This song was started with a simple conga/ darbuka beat I found on some "world noise" website. I actually discovered how to make the "Trancy" synth noise by accident because I clicked the wrong button in fruity loops. The one-shot synth I was using suddenly became a driving synth with a cool beat to it. Next came the idea for a whiny melody so I used a free program I found a few years ago to synthesize a simple square wave and pitch bent it to the melody. At first this was to harsh so I ran a pop filter on the noise and it mellowed out a bit. I may re-do the melody noise because I have a better program for that now. I got the name because it made me think of flying over the ocean or something... yeah...

Vanilla Sunrise

Inspired by some smooth jazzy samples I got from Matt Lee a.k.a. "DJ Powder". This song just flows. It's usually pretty tough to get long sax samples to sound right, but they seemed to fit in nicely. Overall smooth track, one-of-a-kind. All you techno freaks who are afraid of jazz music, its really house, not jazz, so download it.

Freak

This one is for heavy mellow house fans. Does that make sense? Sure... it's my song, whatever I say goes. : )

Element

Nice intro to this one. The mellow synth sound is actually a very tweaked sound that came with fruity loops. The bass sounds fine on normal speakers, but in my car subs it's a bit overpowering. I guess a Ford Tempo isn't the best place for critical listening... sweeeeet.

Logic Broken

This is probably the first clean and precise track I ever produced. All the right samples just came together at the right time so I didn't have to scrounge up lo-fi sounds to keep it interesting.

Cruisin'

Definitely not a serious song. Started out as my attempt to record an acoustic guitar with my crappy sound blaster card. To get it to sound bearable I had to screw the top off my mic, hold it about 2 mm from the "sound hole" on the guitar, and amplify it to death through my DJ mixer pre-amp. The lyrics are more or less improv. I just sang into the mic for a while and picked out a few parts that made sense. : )

Cynica

My first song ever made with Fruity Loops. Kinda detached random sounds put together in a semi-interesting way. Definitely not my best work but I suppose it's worth putting on the site.

Deep

I probably get more people who are fans of this song than any other. This song was also mixed "manually" without the help of great progs like Fruityloops. The main drum beat was made a long time ago by piecing together samples using cut and paste in Sound Forge. I never used the beat for anything until a few months later when I started making this song.

Earth Decay

Not much of a melody. This one is way old. Stankin' punch.

Keep On Pushin'

Creatively named after a sample in the song. This one is ok for a while, might work in a big dark room with giant speakers and lots of kids with glow sticks.

Rhythm Trip

Made this one a long time ago... before the time of Fruityloops. This is the only one of my songs that uses a drum loop made by someone other then myself. The breakdown drumbeat is ripped from a famous jazz tune "Take 5". Originally the intro used a different "hissing" sound that was off-beat. I liked the sound of it a lot, but couldn't find it again when I went to master the track so I attempted to re-create it and ended up with an on-beat, but not as cool sound.