Abre Los Ojos: It came to me in a dream. I awoke with the melody, the bass riff and the rhythm all crystal clear in my mind and nagging me (urging me) to bring them into reality. This is the first time I've ever written / produced like this. My friend Andy (I-Nerve) and I both compose in a very similar way. Andy calls it "Organic composition" and I think that usually sums up my writing. But this, ah this was oh so different.
I attribute my new creative "buzz" to my new life style which I constantly give thanks for (it's important to do that I feel). Abre Los Ojos is a case in point - the hook is burned into my cerebrum - I almost can't believe I wrote it, but it is mine and that makes me so very happy.
Knowing my "set up" is proving invaluable, it's a given and an obvious one at that but it's something that can quite easily pass musicians by. Technology being what it is and todays instruments being what they are it's quite easy to get "lost in the machine". By that I don't mean that the music sounds "mechanical" (Squeeks and Bleeps eh Reg?) I mean it's all too easy to get distracted from the creative process and get bogged down with the technology bullshit. Any budding muso's please take note - it's the music that's important - don't lose yourself in the technology. That said and this is my point, you have to know your technology.
When you have a bit of kit you are completely at one with your writing reflects that, both in the quality and the ease in which you complete the writing process. If you're spending too much time "messing" you lose the thread of creativity (well I used to anyway). I've been using my new sequencer (which is really a self contained studio in a single bit of software) for a few months now and having spent a considerable amount of time with it, and it's rather fat manuals, I can pretty much get it to do what I want.
Every single sound in Abre Los Ojos is my own. Every drum sound has been crafted (Ultrabeat what a monster of a Drum Machine!) every synth sound built from the ground up, every effect patch created from scratch, only Ms Cruz has not been engineered by me :)
"Ramirez Ain't No Square" has to be one of my favourite synth sounds ever - and it's mine! It's built from a basic Square Waveform (hence the name) but twisted and modulated with some very tasty envelope & velocity action which makes it sooooo playable and so very very fat.
Abre Los Ojos remixes coming soon, I may well work on those next but "Curious Yellow" "English Voodoo" "Forgotten Friends" "One 2 Eight" "Dorkin" "Layers of Reality" and "Talamanca Dreaming" are all part complete and now shouting for attention.
Abre Los Ojos is Track 7 from the album "Civilization 2012"
Peace & Love
Migz
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