Your Early, EARLY beats

86. · Post by **86.** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:30 pm

@ Daft tnuc and J-One - thanks folks! lol tunes like those stay out of my media monkey permanently.

thing i miss about back during that period was I'd do like 3 beats a day and shit.

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:36 pm

86 Position wrote:thing i miss about back during that period was I'd do like 3 beats a day and shit.

Feelin' that!

Funny thing is when I started making beats I was only listening to mixes and I had no sense of track structure so I made beats as if they were mixed tunes. Could make 15~20 minutes beats

I'm far too serious now

86. · Post by **86.** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:41 pm

Daft tnuc wrote:
Lojik wrote:
86 Position wrote:
Lojik wrote:Here is pretty much the first tune I ever did (not including eJays and stuff).

Production wise it's shit but I still like the musical ideas in there!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/63238659c2a99d7d/

EDIT: Daft tnuc I actually lol'd at Oh Crappy Days, that is pretty crazy
I think you're lying...this is of a higher standard.

Nah honestly. I'd been playing guitar/piano and writing songs for years before I ever started making electronic music. All the synths used in that track are presets with barely and FX processing on them lol.
Yeah some people really have a good ear.

Really clean tunes for J-One & 201 as well!

This is definitely the oldest I still have and it's one of my all time favorite. 50 BPM flavor.

this song is very frightening! but very deep. true cruisin at late night music

86. · Post by **86.** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:42 pm

Daft tnuc wrote:
86 Position wrote:thing i miss about back during that period was I'd do like 3 beats a day and shit.
Feelin' that!

Funny thing is when I started making beats I was only listening to mixes and I had no sense of track structure so I made beats as if they were mixed tunes. Could make 15~20 minutes beats

I'm far too serious now

villalobos-step lol

j_one · Post by **j_one** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:43 pm

Yeah I well miss making beats back in the day, I had a much lower attention span too, so I'd make half a tune, find a nice sound/sample that didn't fit that track and go straight into the next track, ending up with 5 unfinished bits in a day. Probably still do that tbf.

@Daft tnuc - Thought Scud Storm was sick. Especially the end bit at about 2:50 where the drums switch.

Found some very old shit... over 3 years, which is around when I started beat making. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=48ab ... 0a1ae8665a

macc · Post by **macc** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:10 pm

To get my early beats you have to go and dig out the cassettes from the carrier bag in my room... dating back up to 15 years

God I am an old fart.

86. · Post by **86.** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:29 pm

@Macc - just found out earlier today you mastered Profane's Illisauga EP. it's supposed to come out soon so I havent heard it, but his music is fire isn't it?

J-One wrote: Found some very old shit... over 3 years, which is around when I started beat making. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=48ab ... 0a1ae8665a

this is bomb.

all these new beats people are posting are really interesting tbh.

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:15 pm

J-One wrote:Found some very old shit... over 3 years, which is around when I started beat making. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=48ab ... 0a1ae8665a

Nice one!

To get my early beats you have to go and dig out the cassettes from the carrier bag in my room... dating back up to 15 years

Would love to listen to that

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:08 pm

I have some tunes I found that are older than stuff I have ever shared on here b4

2001 business coming up in a bit!

macc · Post by **macc** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:18 pm

86 Position wrote:@Macc - just found out earlier today you mastered Profane's Illisauga EP. it's supposed to come out soon so I havent heard it, but his music is fire isn't it?

It's great stuff. It's drum n bass, but hip hop. Or it's hip hop, but drum n bass. Or something

He had very particular tastes about the sounds of each track, we worked hard to get the sound he had in his head. Well worth the effort, great music. Ever Since is the one for me, that really gets the drumfunk/hip hop balance/meld thing right on the money.

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:04 pm

FSTZ wrote:I have some tunes I found that are older than stuff I have ever shared on here b4

Can't wait! Still have Maximum Overdrive or whatever it's called in my head

ianfm · Post by **ianfm** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:12 pm

First completed tune:
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/71572 ... 20Hats.mp3

Yesterday:
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/71572 ... 0Hours.mp3

I learnt quite a bit about mixing and arranging I think. =p

edit: Been producing a year and a bit now.

glottis5 · Post by **glottis5** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:05 am

I made all of these around 2005 with FL Studio 4, a cheap keyboard and a turntable I bought at a garage sale for $5.

http://tindeck.com/listen/3g0oy
http://tindeck.com/listen/28qi5

I was trying to make hip-hop but I really had no idea what I was doing, lol.

collective · Post by **collective** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:29 am

www.myspace.com/adino

made this when i thought I could play guitar, and produce... hahaha nothing like 8tracks

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:04 am

I'll see what I can dig up. I lost a lot of early abZ tunes in a hard drive fale. I do have one of my first dnb tune from 98 on a homemade dubplate. It would be super lolz if I rip that bitch. I get jealous of the kids starting out today because nothing was intuitive and powerful like software is today. Oh well. I mean everyone from my gen remembers discovering overdubbing by using two tape decks. I sampled beats using that technique. That is how shit started for me. Don't foget the Casio with the 8bit sampler on it.

(closest thing to an oldman smiley I can find)

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:08 am

Macc wrote:To get my early beats you have to go and dig out the cassettes from the carrier bag in my room... dating back up to 15 years

God I am an old fart.

Yeah join the club. Sorry for reading this thread backwords. If I was playing for the win I am sure I could dig something up from as far back as 89 or 90

I want to take a look anyway. My bro was my drummer and passed away last year. Would love for someone to put his lo-fi beats to good use.

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:38 am

Funny story,

I haven't heard from one of these emcees for 4 years

we had a pretty serious falling out and were enemies

I knew I was going to post this when I got home,

what I didn't know is the guy sent me a myspace message saying hello and hoping to bury the hatchet

perhaps he knew I was thinking about the tune

the universe is a crazy place

peep it:

Echelon - Technical Difficulties

♫♪♫ · Post by **♫♪♫** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:44 am

Man, I have like 12 thousand old tunes that will never see the light of day. I'll make an exception for this thread, tho...

Revenge

This song is rapidly approaching 10 years of age. This is probably the oldest electronic track I have that we've produced that wasn't lost in a dozen hard drive crashes or computer fryings. We did some rock band stuff for a few years before this, so we weren't entirely new to the process of songwriting, but at this point I was just getting a grip on things like drum/synth programming.

The mastering in the tune is absolutely atrocious. It sounds muddy and gross. The beat programming is also pretty meh if you ask me. It's a shame because we have an upwards of a hundred tracks from back in this era (2000-2004ish) that all have this [lack of] quality of production, but have some really great melodic ideas (as I think this tune has).

macc · Post by **macc** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:01 am

abZ wrote:I mean everyone from my gen remembers discovering overdubbing by using two tape decks.

Happy days, man....

Sorry to hear about your brother.

salomon · Post by **salomon** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:11 am

I'm a former pianist so my old tracks are gonna be piano compositions! I have used some of my old stuff for loops. I first got into producing ambient and then it evolved into dub and tech stuff so my older stuff isn't dubstep at all.

I used to have them all on myspace but I accidently deleted them... I had like 29302302 different genres represented (dubstep, dub techno, minimal, ambient, and classical) and it was confusing...

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