Reasonable Birth

A few years ago I decided to dust off the piece of software that inspired me to make music in the first place. Re-Birth kinda changed my life in the summer of '99 and I felt it still had some usefulness. Even though Propellerheads' Reason essentially replaced it and surpassed it on many levels, Re-Birth still had a few key sounds that weren't so easily emulated on Reason, particularly that of the Roland TB-303. This track is sequenced with Reason with Re-Birth rewired in. I mirrored the 303 to give it a bit of depth and the end result is a poor man's DJ Dan type sound. I just kind of quickly sequenced it and haven't touched it since. Totally unmastered but I know there's something there that's good. Why? Cause my wife likes it. She doesn't like anything I do, so her opinion actually means something in this case.

Phenedate - Reasonable Birth

Strange Bird

You ever play Angry Birds?  Yeah, me neither.  So anyway, after you essentially beat the original game, whether it's beating every original level or getting 3 stars (I did both cause I'm crazy obsessed with stuff like that) they give you this strange bonus play where you get to play a weird little accordion.  I couldn't tell you why that would interest anyone but while fooling around with it I found that I really liked the sound.  That night I plugged my iphone headphone jack into the box and played this little ditty that is the basis of this track.


Phenedate - Strange Bird

2-16-09

This was created as a test. I had just learned how to add individual instruments from Reason into Ableton rather than a whole feed from the program. This way I could use the midi functionality in Ableton and the fun synth instruments from Reason. It was put together in one afternoon and while I keep meaning to go back to it, I may never. So here it is.



Phenedate - 2.16.09