Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers

[jbag031]

This song is really full sounding for mostly just a pad and kick... Anyone know whats going on with that pad?

[computerface]

This song is really full sounding for mostly just a pad and kick... Anyone know whats going on with that pad?

Turns out it's a short (like, 1 second) sample from a cover of Light My Fire.

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/1 ... My%20Fire/

[skimpi]

This song is really full sounding for mostly just a pad and kick... Anyone know whats going on with that pad?

Turns out it's a short (like, 1 second) sample from a cover of Light My Fire.

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/1 ... My%20Fire/

SICK!

[nowaysj]

necro - I don't think that is sidechain compression, if it is, there is a muted trigger, cause sound fades just before kick hits, unless I'm tripping. And track is most certainly not just kick and pad, missing everything else is what people miss when they think a certain type of music is easy to make... you're just missing it.

[musicandme]

Hearing Flying Lotus got me into producing..and this is one of my favorite tunes by him. Sounds going on to me sound like..kick/hat/snare, soft mid range bass making some wobbly sounds, couple sound fx, the pad (so glorious, glad to know where it's from now), and then a couple different pad layers that help it to come up at the end of the phrase and make different fading timbres. my .02

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Thought this was pretty sweet, idk why..but as you can see when he tries to play the response section of the pad, it sounds nothing like flying lotus's version..what's going on when he does it? Layers? EQ? FX?

[sweetlime]

From what I can tell Flylo uses Reason.. You can get that sort of thick compressed saturation by loading an initialized Redrum with samples (chop up a weird loop in Recycle into lots of different messy drum hits) and then changing the velocity to full (turn it all the way anti clockwise) on each sample. Put in a simple pattern and then experiment with the tone knob and the length on your samples so that they flow over each other, also experiment with the pitch and pitch bend knobs. Copy that pattern to the track, and then load up a hip hop ReGroove on that track and set it however you like, just make sure you slide it out by a quite alot to get it slow sounding with the rest of the track..

You can add hihats/percussion in triplets over the top and alter the velocity on each to make your own groove. Then get the percussion loop you just made, and export the loop as a audio file. Hit this back into Recycle again, chop it up, and put it in Dr Rex. Slow it down or whatever you want, then trigger each sample over the top of that beat you just made to get some interesting percussion. Add an Initialized Scream effect on tape, and mess about with the compression and tone until you are happy..

Automate all kinds of settings throughout the beat such as the length of your drum hits or the compression on your scream to make it interesting throughout the track and keep the listener engaged and stuff

[Gusto]

Add an Initialized Scream effect on tape, and mess about with the compression and tone until you are happy..

Some people have said that when FlyLo was using Reason he basically just had a bunch of instances of Scream on everything.

[baboon2525]

Might be completely wrong, but I thought on this tune he sidechained everything to the hi-hats, hence the unusual effect (usually everything is sidechained to the kick). That's what i read somewhere else, and it made complete sense listening back to it.

[computerface]

necro - I don't think that is sidechain compression, if it is, there is a muted trigger, cause sound fades just before kick hits, unless I'm tripping. And track is most certainly not just kick and pad, missing everything else is what people miss when they think a certain type of music is easy to make... you're just missing it.

This. I'm not really understanding how people think it's just kick and pad, there's definitely quite a bit of other percussion in there, and some sort of bass that comes in right before the kick.