Mumbai

This post is just to show my flexibility not only in genres but in collaborations.  A friend from India emailed me asking if I’d be able to help him with a track.  All he had were dry vocals but didn’t know where to take them.

After talking for a few minutes he explained that he wanted an electronic/dance/techno song that still had an organic feel to it.  Needless to say, I didn’t really know what to do with it.  I sat on it for about an hour then just went to work.

The following track is an excerpt of what he sent me – just plane old dry vocals in a language that I don’t understand:

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The first thing I did was clean up the vocals by giving them a little bit of ambience and EQ carving out the unwanted frequencies.  Then it was on to the writing.  After an hour or so this is what I came up with:

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Here is the track without vocals:

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