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Author: monty on February 18 2007
--> I used to live in a part of Glasgow which was predominately populated by members of the Asian community. Anytime i went to buy milk or bread, there would be a guy behind the counter listening to this weird euphoric pop music known as Bhangra.

This is my attempt at it. (filtered through my interest in trad scots/irish music and electronica)

im using lightningmp3 to host the track.
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02/18/07 +  astroid
haha

glad to see your dirty snowball is rolling through india.
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02/18/07 +  monty
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02/18/07 +  cbit
astroid said: "glad to see your dirty snowball is rolling through india."

lolol
superb stuff. you have a stretch of stylistic frontier all of your own!
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02/18/07 +  fakeBlooper
this is bizarre (in a good way). i do hear a tad of the irie influence.
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02/18/07 +  jdg
totally!
u need to get that bangra rhythm tho.
not the straight 8ths.. u need the do cak, space do cak
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02/18/07 +  monty
cheers all.

jdg: i know what you mean about the rhythm.
i couldnt get Reason to produce the groove i was looking for.

i put a vid on youtube it was meant to sound more like this:
Video
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02/18/07 +  monty
on second thoughts that sounds exactly the same.
lol
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02/18/07 +  KidQuaalude
lol @ your banjo face in the video. dope track eddie.
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02/18/07 +  astroid
omf your feel on the banjo is near perfect. rad video
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02/18/07 +  jdg
YES! fuck dood.
SEND ME JUST THAT BANJO TRACK (and tell me the bpm)

holy shit thats dope. fuck dood, u win
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02/18/07 +  astroid
sounds like you have to set the swing one note deeper, like on a 16th note triplet instead of an 8th note to replicate more of your banjo feel.
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02/18/07 +  astroid
ung. what i actually mean is that the swing on the track is something like 2/3 you may need to get it a bit more subtle, not 5/6 but maybe more like 9/12 or even 17/24. i ain't even kidding.
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02/18/07 +  monty
lol...that video was something like take 23.

cheers for the rhythm tips astroid.
i need to explore this.
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02/18/07 +  astroid
it's a bit of a pain in the ass in reason, but you can get used to doubling/quadrupling the legnth of the meter in those pattern sequencers (to 24 or whatever) and then doubling/quadrupling the bpm to access those subtlelies of feel. then again, i havn't used reason since v2, so i dunno, maybe they have better "swing" functions now.
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02/18/07 +  tunalicker
omg . ditto dook dat ... doo dat .... like hiphop but bhangra stalling for time.
you're on the banjo spaceship aren't you? awesome. love it.
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