boom bap – Stereo Mike

More on phonographic glue, elements and the whole (part I)

Posted on August 31, 2024September 18, 2024 by Stereo Mike

I felt a real craving for beat-making today. After practicing some bluegrass rolls on banjo and fingerpicking on acoustic guitar (because some of the existing/new song ideas will need it), and after playing the latest Westside Gunn (Supreme Clientele, 2018) and Evidence (Weather Or Not, 2018) albums—both receiving best hip-hop albums of the year nods by various rap tastemakers—I guess I felt somewhat (too?) drawn into the experiences of the...

On drum layering: programmed and live

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Stereo Mike

Listening to the two tunes produced two days ago (6/8 Brass Hit and 6/8 Psychedelic—all working titles) following the Americana excursion, I’m noticing again something I have been meaning to note down (I’ll use the latter track as the case in point here...) There is a discernible ‘edge’ or impact I am perceiving (to the sample-based aesthetic), when programmed and live drums are audible as parallel, synchronised streams. A bit like...

Songs

	Stereo Mike - Wishbone (ft. Jo Lord)
	Stereo Mike - Arun Dva
	Stereo Mike - Keim Outro (ft. Andrew Caldecott)