古代東部低音音楽 vol.1 by C. POTTER
Errr, so the idea when this started was to make an album of early style dubstep using a lot of samples from ancient Chinese music. The thing is I'm not really that into ancient Chinese music, I just really like the thought of ancient China, and the word 'China' and all it's derivations. Even after the Donald Trump thing - I in fact still like that video. I do like however a fair amount of traditional Japanese music, and Ancient Japanese music drew heavily from Ancient Chinese music. There are also a few modern Japanese composers that I love, who've done things that heavily draw from traditional Japanese music. There's a couple of Takemitsu pieces, one is called 'An Autumn Garden', but there's another one that I like more than that that I can't remember the name of. There's also Hosokawa's 'New Seeds of Contemplation' which is a bit more hardcore. Most of the samples are from traditional Japanese instruments, but there are also a fair amount of Chinese bells in there. I wanted to call it Ancient Chinese Dubstep Music vol. 1, but I think if I were Japanese or Chinese I would find that disrespectful. I've left the track names with that, and everywhere this is posted I've said why, so hopefully that's not going to offend anyone.
When I say dubstep, I mean the early stuff, which this is still not really like. I'm thinking people like Mark One, Plastician, Mala, Toasty, particularly the Plastician remasters of his old tracks (although oddly enough, not Japan). I did try and make things more repetitive, and I've definitely paid a lot more attention to the bass. I even watched 8 hours of videos watching Plastician make a track, but was a bit disappointed to find out that most of those guys just have enormous banks of vsts, whereas I prefer to try and make things from scratch. I'm pretty pleased with my bass sound that I've made, but I really need to lay off the 909 for a while after this. I also tried to make the tracks to some extent DJ friendly, but as I went on they just got more and more Charlie Potter. Still I'm fairly pleased with it, although next release will be something much more experimental.
Tracklist
| 1. | Ancient Chinese Dubstep Experiment2 | 6:00 |
| 2. | Ancient Chinese Dubstep Experiment5 | 5:43 |
| 3. | Ancient Chinese Dub 3 Version One Million and 1 | 5:31 |
| 4. | Ancient Chinese Dubstep4 | 4:16 |
Credits
I did everything apart from play the instruments I sampled. Inadvisably I mastered this myself, which I know is kind of a bad idea, but I wanted to have a go, and it's not like I'm trying to win the Mercury award.
Many thanks to Matt James, Richard Day and Joe Dobroschke for their advice on this.
I also made some videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrfEORFu9zg&ab_channel=CharliePotter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5dcOK6ZDzY&t=4s&ab_channel=CharliePotter
