drum solo, nicholas mcbride
October 22nd, 2011A drummer – songwriter based in singapore, Nicolas McBride has a creative, melodic, syncopated and fresh drumming
Goodbye Mr Gaddafi
October 20th, 2011This was written on Monday night feb 21. Round about midnight I was @ my online desk waiting for Gaddafi’s speech. This is for his umbrella.
Wrote down those notes with:
Gaddafi tv speech
Reuters live feed announce
Two piano tracks
1 electronic drum track
The Amen Break history
October 3rd, 2011This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.