jaybird

Hopefully my weekend will contain some FFXIV Beta gameplay.

http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2013_03_talesoftroubadours.html

Woke up this morning to see that Rapreviews.com has posted a favorable review of my latest project with Analyrical. Common Labor has been getting some great reviews lately - that is awesome.

This is my favorite here:

"In fact if Common Labor decided to sample "Africa" in a song and rap over it, I'd probably dig it, but they eschew familiar samples in favor of creating something others probably WILL sample in the future. Now can you dig that? It's not your father's or your grandfather's rap, but it's something new worth listening to." -  as reviewed by Steve 'Flash' Juon

Thanks to y'all for listening.

I'm going to occasionally profile songs off "The Tales of the Troubadours" - starting with this one.

Dust Storm was created because I had recently become obsessed with the FourOnTheFloor drum pattern - you know what I'm talking about. Constant kick on the downbeat, make you shake your rump type stuff. I had never created a song with this pattern throughout the entire track - I got the kicks sounding nice and picked up the bass.The bass has a lot of movement, it climbs up each chord then bounces back and forth then repeats, then jumps up to the next chord and dances some more. The turnaround is simple and I let the drums do a bit of the talking with the syncopated steel drum hits.

earlybird rap

I’ve known Capaciti since my transplant to the land of ice and snow. Most of his earlier works are deep abstract stories of haunting and somewhat disturbed characters. A few years ago something clicked and he started showing himself more - personal struggles and accomplishments - it was such a positive change that his music has reached a new realm. He started working with local producer Jaron from West End Productions. The duo were dubbed earlybirds and they have been releasing amazing work via their bandcamp for the past few years.