FMP-Research 1

The word "trap" is used to refer to the place where drug deals are made and how it is difficult to escape the lifestyle. This is used all over the world and has been developed into a genre of music.
This has had positive and negative affects in the UK and US. This has brought young people together through music, but also has created allot of gang violence and other crimes.


This is the beginning of one of the many music videos on the channel. This video has a great song when it gets a minute in which is for the audience. But before that there is more of a message to 'enemies' This doesn't feature on every musical track, but when it does it doesn't go unnoticed:


This is another music video but without the intro showing the area. This is an artist who has recently taken the scene by shock by his Liverpool accent mixing with UK London trap. This type of stuff doesn't happen often where something new and experimental happens:


That was two videos from one of  the UK's most popular trap YouTube channels. Unlike the UK the US have personal channels and then one major channel called WorldStar HipHop. This is where most artists post there music videos.


The US videos are way more popular then the UK channels. Here is one song that Blew earlier this year. Like Tremz he is experimenting in rap w :



These music videos have given me ideas of what music I would like to produce and have produced, from the lyrics to the genre to the BPM of the actual tracks, which are mostly ranged between 120-140 BPM.

I have decided to create an EP from 6-8 tracks and collaborate with different artists engineers and producers. The way i want this to work out is to get all the instrumentals together and choose which rappers and singers should feature on what.Then book the studio for the week (2 hours a day) This way it will leave me all tracks to mix and perfect the vocals. 

As a producer and songwriter i have a clear idea of what i want my 'beats' and vocals to sound like as a whole. I listen to QUIETPVCK allot and his vocals are done all very similar and have something that stands out on every track no matter what artist, what instrumental.

FMP-Step By Step (week 3)

Here are three of my EP tracks that are being finalised.I have recently worked on them this week.

This week i was able to do allot of work in terms of this project. On monday i produced 'Anger'

   On wednesday i worked on 'Exorcism'. This track to me 2 days as it was mainly about mixing the vocals and getting them in time with the track. I was able to do this by researching on how to change the tempo of the vocals online. Here is the video i watched to do so.



This helped me allot as i basically copied it step by step

The final track here is not going to be included in the Ep as i have recently been unable to contact Aaron and therefore will go unused.This track isn't mixed and recently during that period more tracks have come up so this track will not feature on my EP.

FMP-Step By Step (week 2)

This is my week 2 research:

This is some research for my presentation.
When researching for my EP I noticed that although most UK rap EP's are focussed on the one genre, on each EP I looked at there were two or more tracks that were either of an American genre or involved a female singer that carried the song with a chorus or BV's. I got this information from @PineroBeats & @Gotttionem. This is why I have chosen to find some American rappers online and used accapella vocals of them.
I chose to sample Meek Mill and others vocals from the song Exorcism along side a woman's vocals that I had found online. the difference here is that I am only using her vocals for the chorus and having someone from college rap over the top.

Italian Gangster 

I have created the beginning of one of my tracks.
It consists of simple bells that change pitch throughout the track. I will now have to work on the drum beat.

Mp4

This track is a working progress where i have been given numerous vocals and i have to create a backing track whilst mixing all vocals.So far i have mixed the vocals in terms of volume, but i am yet to add any drums. 

Here is my week 2 version of this track

Research to do next week:

case study highlighting US rap
2 tracks UK and US
not very personal
what makes a UK rap sound.
BV REverb

FMP-Evaluation

                   Misunderstood

We had to set up a presentation for our classmates about our project for the end of term and this is how i performed mine

For my project i will be creating an ep from 5-8 tracks. On these songs you will hear a mix of genres although the main thought behind all of this was to make  UK style ep. I will be contributing in this by producing every beat allthough i have been working with other producers, putting vocals down on some of the tacks and doing the final mix of every song.

What makes a UK trap song successful?

Identity/branding -  how I can create 6 or so tracks with man different people and let people still know that I have been involved in the song whether it be vocals or producing the beat. Although I will be working with many other music students, I still want the EP to keep the original vibe I started of with.

What is the difference between UK Trap & US Trap.
 UK Trap is very unique and different to most genres. The instrumental is different the Vocals are different in these way.
A UK Trap instrumental includes a basic sequence of notes mainly played on a Piano or Pad. 
The vocals are at a standard level whilst the back up vocals/ad-libs are slightly higher. 
The ad-libs that UK artists use are usually very 'hyped' and fill in the simple track 

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-823087223/exorcism-rmx?in=user-823087223/sets/skl

The first three tracks will be put on my soundlcoud with there will be a link to my Band Camp account where the rest of my music will be held.

The first three tracks that will be put on my soundcloud will include 'Exorcism remix' which is a track which i created at college an used some vocals that i had found online and put a instrumental behind using logic pro X. I found out during my research that during most UK based EP's the one american styled track is usually started off with a melody followed by a deep base and highats. 

This is replicated on the first track of mine.But i have also learnt that it shouldn't be the opening track to my EP because this is one of the only songs of that style on the EP

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPnTvh_n2-E

The rest a yet to be chosen 

Research (week 3)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=co4PXXGRBqs

The research i have done has been based on UK mix tapes. I have looked through many producers work with the question of what makes a UK ep and how can i experiment with it.

I have looked at pinero beats and what his mixtape covers   

https://m.soundcloud.com/pinerobeats/skengs-on-skengs-full-version

I have also looked at Prod. 5ive

https://m.soundcloud.com/rawz-luciano/rawz-455am-prod-5ive-x-b

This helps in what i will be looking to do in the future for this project.

In the next few weeks i will be looking to finalize all beats that have been created. 

Also i will be hopefully either receiving or recording 4 or more vocals to be put on tracks with other artists from the college including myself. 

I have chosen two different vocals online and have put instrumentals behind them but the main target for me on this project is to work with as many artists, producers and live recorders as possible. 

This will be pretty simple as i know most people here, but i would also like to use samples online wether it vocals or instruments.