Final Project
For my Final Project idea, I have only decided now to mainly make my EP Full of instrumentals.
This is because my EP is not for the audience to listen to as a song. My tracks are made for Artists to listen to and use for future projects of theirs.
My tracks are similar styles to producers Pinero Beatz and MAZZA Prosuction.
When these guys produce tracks and release them in either albums or EP's, they release the original tracks with artists that have put vocals over the top. They usually do this through soundcloud and youtube. But because of the publicity they get, they will leave emails in the description or bio's of their pages. This is for other artists who have heard the tracks and word either like to use the instrumentals that have already been released or others that haven't.
At this stage i feel that i have not got enough of a following to do what they are doing even though some of the quality is similar. At this moment in time i have mainly focussed on the UK rap genre. Whether or not this takes off decides what music i will be creating and at the moment i am hoping to achieve a head start. This is because i feel that once the following grows of UK rap there will be many other producing competing with instrumentals. So as for now i'm releasing them on soundlcoud hoping to build a bigger following as the days go on.
I have struggled finding artists who have the time and write voices to feature on the tracks i will be releasing on soundlcoud. Some have left the college, others don't turn up often so it is hard to arrange bookings and studio slots.
When creating an EP in the future, i will maybe try out another genre and get vocalists to record and perform over it rather then making it just instrumentals.
I have not released it on Bandcamp yet so once i have seen how people react on that, i will take into consideration of how i will next release it. I also did some research into Bandcamp whether or not i can release all tracks at once on an album or if there were other ways. Phil helped me when looking into this.
In the future i'm hoping the quality of my work will improve. Also i'm looking forward to working with more artists and exploring more genres. My blog will include more screen shots as i am still investigating how to do it.
How it fits in
As i was researching into the genre i am covering, I found another producers work that i found very similar to mine. LA Beats is a producer who actually produces in the UK for artists. Although his work is based on Soundcloud and i prefer mine to be put on BandCamp i feel that we have the same intentions with very similar music.
Here is how one of his tracks compares to one of mine
This track provides a catchy beginning with an army style drum pattern until an 808 Bass drum is included. Here is one of my tracks that was recently put up on Soundcloud for my audience to sway over to my BandCamp. But like LA Beat's track. The drum pattern and philosophy of the track is similar.
Looking how my Ep has turned out, there isn't much i would change. I feel that i could have tried harder to get others to promote it. I also would have liked to have 5 on Soundcloud and 5 on BandCamp rather then 4 and 5. I would have been able to have done that but i felt that it was extremely hard to get in contact with Aaron from the college and therefore i had a missing track.
Also i would have tried to mute out all bad language on:
In fact I wouldn't have included this track if i had finished one of my final colab's with Joe.
So in future i will A, take longer researching at the beginning of my project rather then later. This will help me figure out what my aim is earlier on rather then changing it midway or even further. B, I will perhaps get other people that i Know to promote my music rather then rely on my unimpressive Soundcloud!
Collabs
My original idea was to work with as many artists, engineers and producers as possible.
And at the beginning i had done collaborations with Joe, Sonny, Taylor, Josh, Luke, Ryan, Tami & Elizabeth.
Sonny, Taylor and Ryan all had me featuring on some of their tracks. This was for there Ep's only though as i wanted my Ep to be produced by me.
To resolve this problem i did collaborations with Taylor, Josh and Sonny When producing. These tracks will be featured on my Ep on BandCamp.
I also had Joe featuring on some of my tracks with Sonny. This track will be on soundcloud but not on my final Ep.
I also had Luke Tami and Elizabeth asking for me to feature on some of their tracks. I have done some vocals for Tami Ryan and Elizabeth and Luke is a working progress.
My Ep Research
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 finalise 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.
When looking up producers an artists i was able to find out that most EP's that are released of this genre do not include vocalists on the tracks as the EP is mainly made for promotion for the instrumentals rather then finalised songs.
When i focus on another genre i will also research whether or not vocalists are the right things to add. Whilst researching this i had already created some tracks with vocals on. To counter this i decided to release those tracks on Soundcloud and then my final EP on Bandcamp which also was heavily researched.
I used the Internet mainly for my research on my project. I also had allot of help unintentionally from the music that i listen to normally and how it has influenced my Ep.
I originally had other intentions when creating this Ep, bug as i did more and more research i came to the conclusion that should only use instrumentals on my BandCamp account. I feel that i did the amount research have done is more then enough.
I have also learnt for the future that publicity helps the promotion of music that you are looking to sell. This may not apply for other genres that i will explore in future years. Once i have built up a larger following it will become allot easier.
