Incendiarism: Archive

Intelligence

Intelligence by natebakescakes Hey guys, So I hoped you like my previous song. Was quite a good experience spending such a long time on the same song. Doing multiple jobs gets pretty tough. Anyway, this clip was one that I created when I first got my Axiom 61. Found it buried beneath all the countless reformatting of my Windows Hard Drive. Transferred it to my mac and started the...

Jan 15th

Cables

Cables by natebakescakes Hey friends, So this is my first full song solely by me. I hope you guys like it! I put quite a bit of effort into producing and engineering (if you can call that engineering) it. 1 month of toiling into a 5 minute track. But yeah, I know it’s a bit of a taboo to master your own songs but like not my fault right, people no money for professional mastering, so...

Jan 15th

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Catfish (Music Unrelated)

So I just watched this movie called “Catfish”, a movie done in the style of a documentary. Without a doubt, the film manages to speak to me and gives me sort of like a warm feeling after watching it. There were quite a few parts in the movie which gave me the sort of chill down my spine, not because it was scary, or mysterious but more of mind-blowing. I love it when the cinematography...

Jan 9th

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Music Unrelated

I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is...

Jan 4th

MIDI Guitar Rig

Hey guys, So I’ve been spending quite an amount of time reading up on how to use Mainstage 2 (Software included in the Logic Suite). According to the Wiki: Its primary purpose is to serve as a method of centralizing any virtual instruments that users might have installed on their computers that are normally used in Apple’s DAW software Logic Pro for use in live performance. ...

Jan 3rd

The Environment

Hey friends, It’s been a while since I’ve last updated. Mostly because of the holiday season (Christmas and New Year’s). The song has been stagnant. I can’t really record since my brother’s at home. Yeah, the condenser mic picks up keyboard and mouse clicks so it’s totally impossible to record with him playing LOL all day long. (That’s League of Legends...

Jan 3rd

２５個目の染色体

This song is a love song and I thought it was frikkin’ hilarious. ２５個目の染色体 (The 25th Chromosome) - RADWIMPS The last part of the lyric goes: いつか生まれる二人の命その時がきたらどうか君にそっくりなベイビーであって欲しい無理承知で100%君の遺伝子伝わりますように俺にはこれっぽっちも似ていませんように寝る前に毎晩手を合わせるんだそんなこと言うといつも君は僕に似てほしいなんて言うのそんなのは絶対いやだよ強いて言うなら俺のこのハッピー運とラッキー運だけは一つずつ染色体にのせてあげてほしいな Which translates to: Someday our baby will be born When...

Dec 26th

Songwriting

Right, I just spent roughly two days recording my next track. And I’ve got to say, it’s sounding pretty good so far! :D Credit definitely goes to the Addictive Drums plug-in and my new bass which I just bought. (I’ve got pretty bad fund management) Well, my new bass is an Epiphone. Epiphone Embassy Standard IV to be exact. The staff at Swee Lee really know how to make a deal...

Dec 21st

Strings Breaking

Yesterday, my string broke. Frikkin’ pissed. They break like every two weeks. Nick suggested I ask my parents to put like 5 bucks into the Guitar String fund every 2 weeks. I think maybe I should bring that up. Maybe do up a Powerpoint presentation or something. Probably going to be going down to Peace Centre today. Maybe check out CityMusic and Sinamex. Thinking of getting a MIDI Pad...

Dec 19th

Guitar Chords

So lately I’ve been listening to the Japanese band “cinema staff”. They’re are Japanese Indie Rock band that is guitar driven and feature almost no synthesizers or other electronic FXs. Good deviation from all of the hybrid-electronic-plus-rock-plus-other-elements-mixed-into-one (or Post-Rock as what wikipedia dubs it) bands I’ve been listening to. MySpace So...

Dec 18th

MusicTech

Even in Hong Kong, I felt that I didn’t really put the music thing on hold, being without the laptop and all. Bought 3 albums in the country, one of which is the famous cantopop singer, Janice Vidal’s, compilation album. It’s pretty neat. I mean I might as well buy it since it probably costs a lot more here in Singapore. Also, it can’t be downloaded online… I think....

Dec 15th

Hong Kong

Output 1-2 by natebakescakes Hey fellow Tumblr users, Just came back from Hong Kong explaining the absence. Realised my parents are really really really familiar with the country. So much that it seemed like their second home. In any case, I’ve been reading up on tutorials for Logic Pro and started messing around with PMWs. The short clip above is sort of a mixture of all the stuff...

Dec 15th

Senseless

Senseless by natebakescakes So here’s the song I’ve been working on for the past two days. Took me a while since half the time I didn’t know how to access the tools on Logic but I’m getting there. A little about the track: The laugh track and rain fx are apple loops so no, I didn’t purposely go out and record rain although it would be quite cool if I actually...

Dec 7th

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Using Tumblr

Hey Tumblr friends out there, So I decided to use this Tumblr as a blog for my musical endeavours. Recently, I bought a MacBook Pro 15” i7 model and Logic Pro for myself. I know right, it cost a bomb and now I owe my parents my life (not that I didn’t before this). Well, after meddling and experimenting with it for about 3 days, I’ve finally sort of composed an instrumental...

Dec 7th