Segue » Ableton http://seguesound.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Segue interview in Zebra & Inthemix http://seguesound.com/segue-interview-in-zebra-inthemix/ http://seguesound.com/segue-interview-in-zebra-inthemix/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:21:08 +0000 segbot http://seguesound.com/?p=349 Segue_Zebra_CoverA couple of interviews hit the news-stands and interwebs. Segue was on the cover of Zebra magazine this week, the dance publication as part of Australia’s Time Off. They ran a fun “In The Studio With Segue” style piece (check this photo and that photo) that touches on the collaboration with Vitreous. Moving further into that topic, an interview on Inthemix.com.au gets down into the gig I just played with Chris “Vitreous” Buckridge at the wonderful Bar Soma on Friday night. There is one factual error that I have to correct there, in that Leo is no longer a member of Segue and has left to pursue his DJ’ing. I made a dumb joke about that, saying that he has gone “Underwater“, but it’s a bit of an extreme Underworld fan pun that only the guy from Time Off got. Dance music is serious business. I’ll save the jokes for the next time someone asks me how stable Ableton Live 8.1 is. Thanks ITM & Zebra!

]]> http://seguesound.com/segue-interview-in-zebra-inthemix/feed/ 1 Scientific Sounds of Segue http://seguesound.com/scientific-sounds-of-segue/ http://seguesound.com/scientific-sounds-of-segue/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:35:41 +0000 segbot http://seguesound.com/?p=342 Two things mark this week out as interesting. One being the beginnings of our run with the street press and dance music media, and the other being me finally going to see a medical professional about a torn something-or-other in my shoulder by way of one too many slips on New Zealand mountains a while back. What has this got to do with anything? Gigs. With gigs comes lugging flightcases, and with gigs come some common questions from the media and even promoters. Namely, about what your sound is. So what is the sound of Segue these days? Let’s find out in this informative movie.

]]> http://seguesound.com/scientific-sounds-of-segue/feed/ 2 Segue get disco with Vitreous remix http://seguesound.com/segue-get-disco-with-vitreous-remix/ http://seguesound.com/segue-get-disco-with-vitreous-remix/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:45:28 +0000 segbot http://seguesound.com/?p=121 Here is one that I completely forgot about. Despite working on a bunch of tracks with Vitreous, who is based in Amsterdam but formerly of the excellent act My Ninja Lover here in Australia, I had totally skipped the memory of telling Dektek Records that I was up for a remix of his latest release. Even more embarrassingly, I had been cheering on Kris-Ko as he worked through his own very awesome remix of the same track. With a couple days before deadline, the label asked how I was going on the mix. With a “good! Yeah! Absolutely!”, I took it as a chance to break my usual slow habits and use it as an excuse to try out some new gear. Here’s the result, as a preview on Soundcloud. The actual release date is 23rd of June 2009 for Beatport, and everywhere else two weeks later.

The “Segue Does Disco” Dub:

The Original Mix:

The new gear I mentioned testing out was basically a Jazzmutant Lemur and a pair of Beyerdynamic DT770 headphones. The Lemur I talk enough about elsewhere, and the headphones replace an infamous set of Pioneer HDJ1000’s that I posted about earlier. This remix was quite fun, as I simply grabbed all the source files, threw them in Ableton and flagged the bits I thought sounded usable. Those bits I threw in a number of Ableton Drum Racks, which I have mapped out on the Lemur in a custom template I’ve built to act a little like an MPC. Think “modular sampler”. The fun part of using Drum Racks like a sampler is taking a melody, such as the original record of Chris playing his bass, and dropping it into a few slots. From there I just use the Start and End points to isolate unique notes, which I can then jam on the Lemur in real-time.

This let me flip the bass and melody grooves by replaying single notes, and the rest fell into place. Other fun stuff included some cameo vocals from guests around the studio that was as complex as pointing an SM58 at them, and digging through some old disco records for some cheesy fills. As I had a day to do it, I found myself second guessing the new headphones and the “sound” of my new studio space, being the first mixdown I’ve done here, so I went for a drive at midnight around the inner city Brisbane suburb I live in. Which is often patrolled by Police. Leading to me imagining them pulling me over and asking “excuse me son, why are you doing laps of these streets at midnight?”.

“Checkin’ the mix man. Just checking the mix”. I hope you check the remixes and original of Guise out when it drops in a few weeks!

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