This folk/rap collab drops today, which I took on after completing Bucket’s The Spider and the Butterfly album, detailed on my new MIXING page and below.
I received voice and guitar tracks set to a percussion loop, and feeling it needed some bottom, performed two bass tracks and drumset. The novelty is how I subtly transitioned between a live-band mix in the choruses (drums + 5-string bass) to a rap mix in the verses (loop + synth bass). This mirrors the lyrics about nature striving to thrive amidst urban chaos. Analog versus digital. (Or “technology versus horse,” as screenwriter Donald Kaufman once put it.) Can’t wait to hear the alternate hip-hop mix on BK’s next album.
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