8-Track Music is all about beat making community. The lifestyle and creativity we represent. Our methods for making music and expressing what we enjoy in this community. Oh and we design things enjoy!
Today I use the iPad as my weapon of choice. A highly capable machine for music production. They even have tools and apps like the jazz drummer app soft drummer that make the experience organic. I love these sounds as much as I love my VSTs on the PC.
Skittish is another Jazz groove for my album Vertigo. I used an iPad for the offbeat piano melody and a pack I created for circuit tracks. I like this groove because it includes a scat singing vocal as a melody. I was also able to incorporate scenes with the Circuit Tracks. I am still getting used to Circuit Tracks but having fun solving for the limitations along the way.
Finally chose the name of the first album. This song represents my continued venture into mystery music. I use the Circuit Tracks as my weapon of choice. I wanted to create a tune that had harshness in the beginning with the drums and gravely bass lines but ended in a smooth melody. I’m all about contrast.
Today I use the iPad as my weapon of choice. A highly capable machine for music production. They even have tools and apps like the jazz drummer app soft drummer that make the experience organic. I love these sounds as much as I love my VSTs on the PC.
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Skittish
Skittish is another Jazz groove for my album Vertigo. I used an iPad for the offbeat piano melody and a pack I created for circuit tracks. I like this groove because it includes a scat singing vocal as a melody. I was also able to incorporate scenes with the Circuit Tracks. I am still getting used to Circuit Tracks but having fun solving for the limitations along the way.
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D-Obelik
Finally chose the name of the first album. This song represents my continued venture into mystery music. I use the Circuit Tracks as my weapon of choice. I wanted to create a tune that had harshness in the beginning with the drums and gravely bass lines but ended in a smooth melody. I’m all about contrast.
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The Soul Forge
The Soul Forge is my greatest attempt yet at making Jazz tunes. I am at the beginning stages of learning the various elements of Jazz and testing out various tools to produce music in this style. Still have a long way to go before I am comfortable making music in this genre but this track represents my early experimentation. Hope you enjoy!
I just got the circuit tracks. Absolutely love the thing. I didn't think this thing could do some of the stuff it could do and I was a little bit worried that I wouldn't be able to make my style of music but I like what I was able to come up with in a few minutes of playing with it.
This song is from my Sci-fi Series the 10th Men. I composed this song using the Groovebox on the iPad. I enjoy how this song progresses with its synth lines and lucky drums. Sticking with the mystery theme I tried to have a answer question aesthetic to the music to lead you down the rabbit hole.
The Art of Solo is a piece done for the new album yet to be named but I thought I would play something live. I am not much of a keyboard artist but I fake it well. On the MPC I like to use the ARP feature to jam to a groove.
Me playing around with the MPC Live 2. The name of the song is Mystic Pieces. Will be available in my beat store once I get it up. I will be releasing song starter kits for my MPC enthusiasts. Where you can buy the XPJ file to use in your MPC.
The Soul Forge is my greatest attempt yet at making Jazz tunes. I am at the beginning stages of learning the various elements of Jazz and testing out various tools to produce music in this style. Still have a long way to go before I am comfortable making music in this genre but this track represents my early experimentation. Hope you enjoy!
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Short Circuits
I just got the circuit tracks. Absolutely love the thing. I didn't think this thing could do some of the stuff it could do and I was a little bit worried that I wouldn't be able to make my style of music but I like what I was able to come up with in a few minutes of playing with it.
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Floating Machine
This song is from my Sci-fi Series the 10th Men. I composed this song using the Groovebox on the iPad. I enjoy how this song progresses with its synth lines and lucky drums. Sticking with the mystery theme I tried to have a answer question aesthetic to the music to lead you down the rabbit hole.
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The Art of the Solo
The Art of Solo is a piece done for the new album yet to be named but I thought I would play something live. I am not much of a keyboard artist but I fake it well. On the MPC I like to use the ARP feature to jam to a groove.
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Mystic Pieces
Me playing around with the MPC Live 2. The name of the song is Mystic Pieces. Will be available in my beat store once I get it up. I will be releasing song starter kits for my MPC enthusiasts. Where you can buy the XPJ file to use in your MPC.
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Family Crest
Family Crest is an instrumental track from the sound track Strands. A Sci-fi thriller about Nasa astronauts first contact with Alien life.
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Coda
What did they find in the void? Somewhere in the void there is life. What happens when we find it or it find us?
This song is from the instrumental thriller album Ear E. A selection of songs used for storytelling. In podcasts like To Spoil A Love or The 10th Men. Music written and composed by Jermaine Williams.
What did they find in the void? Somewhere in the void there is life. What happens when we find it or it find us?
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Bending Time
This song is from the instrumental thriller album Ear E. A selection of songs used for storytelling. In podcasts like To Spoil A Love or The 10th Men. Music written and composed by Jermaine Williams.
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Circuit Tracks Quick Review
Circuit Tracks is a groovebox by Novation. Its benefits and limitations are the ultimate mix for any musician or composer looking to create 8 track compositions.
This new version has the ability to create scenes and house up to 64 projects per loaded pack. A pack contains projects, samples and synth presets. The synth is configurable when connected to a computer. Plus you get 300 seconds of sample time for up to 64 samples.
The biggest benefit is in the interface which you will notice has no screen. So listening to your track is a must. Also you must learn to use your muscle memory to navigate the device. Which is so easy you'll find this to be Circuit Tracks best benefit.
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The Color of Cute is a story is about three mice who set out to steal a wheel of cheese from a kitchen only to be thwarted by vengeful and deceitful characters they run into along the way. Not to mention the family that lives in the home who have who have a hateful distaste for mice.
Bending Time is all about finding the little microseconds between moments in your life where things could have gone another way. The what ifs of life are a mystery to me. Ear. E is another mind-bending thriller album featured in stories like ‘To Spoil A Love’ and the ‘The 10th Men’.
Mister E. Muzik is all about music for mysteries, suspense and the thriller genre. Dangerous Music represents my underground hip hop roots. Grimy music for the maladjusted. This concept album is a tribute to work as a poet and storyteller. It was the main inspiration for doing this website.
Music is as much of a character of our stories as the plots themselves. We are interested in creating engaging audio experiences that include storytelling, poetry and composition to build a more immersive experience. We won't just stop there. We are moving in to multiple mediums for expressing our artwork.
Quotes We Live By
The enemy of art is the absence of limitation.
Orson Welles (director, actor)
If it takes me three steps to get to the organ, then I’ll put it four steps away. I’ll have to run faster, I’ll have to push myself harder to get to it.
Jack White (guitarist)
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.