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30 Days of New Tracks: Day 17

Jake — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:49:07 +0000

Down in London until Wednesday hanging out with the Dawson Crew. I didn’t manage to get Asher to help with today’s track, but I filmed him for a bit today, so I can can sample that when I get home.

A nice dark, ambient dub track today. I used a bunch of samples, ranging from typewriters to rocks and a random conversation my mum and I had.

I want to be able to vary those kind of tracks a little bit more. Today’s sort of sounds like a crappy version of Day 05, which wasn’t what I was going for. Ah well.

My tracks for the next few days will probably be quite relaxed because that’s a lot easier to make, and I’ll only really have the evenings to work on the tracks because of looking after the Dawson boys. Cute though…

30 Days of New Tracks: Day 16

Jake — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:09:52 +0000

A cool breakbeat (I think) song today featuring my cousin Zac who’s even younger than Shay – a grand total of three and a quarter. He did vocals and helped with the thinking process.

I really like cutting up drum samples so I figured I’d make a track that’s pretty much just that. Some of the cuts could’ve been a bit neater and there could have been smaller pieces of drums (some of the drum bits are over 2 bars long – cheating!), but I’ve been helping look after two generations of family members.

It might be a little ambitious to try and get Zac and Shay’s even younger brother, Asher, to help with tomorrow’s song. It’s worth a try though, he does some good growls.

30 Days of New Tracks: Day 15

Jake — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:19:14 +0000

Today’s track is a collaboration with my five year old cousin Shay. He plays the ‘plonky-plonk’ synth, the ‘NO! THE OTHER ONE JAKE!’ synth and does vocals as well.

Aunty Kerryn and Uncle Haydn have come up for the weekend with their three kids. I entertained Shay for the day and he liked playing with the MIDI keyboard. See if you can hear the parts that he helped with.

I’m going to try and see if Zac (one of his younger brothers) wants to help with tomorrow’s.

Germans

Jake — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:26:04 +0000

Two weeks ago I went on a German exchange trip. It was the third time I’d been on this trip because it’s really fun. This was the first half of the trip, so the Germans came over here for a week, staying at my house on the last night. In October (I think) We go to Frankfurt am Main. There are multiple Frankfurts, with different rivers going through them (the river Main being one of them).

The three Germans assigned to be my partners were Martin, Micah and Samantha. Martin was 18, Micah and Sam were 17 and they were really cool. Normally I got assigned 12 year-olds, but I was the oldest ‘English’ person on the trip apart from the teachers, so I became a helper. I just had to do head counts and make sure people didn’t mess around. That’s what my partners were doing on the trip, so I was assigned them.

Throughout the week we went to the National Sealife Center, my school (we did karate workshops and a tour of the school), Black Country Living Museum and we went to the town hall and met the Lord Mayor. The current one is the third Pakistani Lord Mayor, so that was cool. We were given soda water, orange juice, tea and sandwiches. How very English of us.

At my place we had Indian takeaway for dinner and played cards until the early hours. It was a game my parents and I had never heard of, Micah had brought it along with her. It’s called Phase 10 and we liked it so much, we ordered it from Amazon immediately. Eventually we all got too tired to play properly so my parents, Juliet who was playing with us, and the girls went to bed. Martin and I went on the computer and watched Batman Begins. We fell asleep about half an hour from the end. Our plan was to watch that, then Donnie Darko, then Transformers and Forrest Gump. Wake everyone up at about 8, have breakfast and go to the airport. Oh well…