Recorded on Garageband.
Posted on SoundCloud: March 2013.
Plays so far: 12.
Comments so far: 1
Instruments used: Classic organ (Garageband preset), drumsticks and voice.
To listen to ShankThr33's "(I Want to) Kill All Americans" just click here.
I have three rules I've developed for writing songs over time, but when I wrote this one I hadn't developed them yet. I was just sitting down at Garageband, trying to figure out how to replicate the sounds that I wanted to make. I had been listening to Skrillex's "Bangarang" and wanted to write something with that kind of edge. Did I succeed? I know what I think but you be the judge.
This is actually the third song I've written since deciding to become an EDM producer, but it's the first one I posted up to SoundCloud. It's been up for a little over a month at this writing. It's gotten my only comment so far (Nekura Kid Rcrds wrote, "It's powerful!") and I am very grateful for it.
As I wrote, I hadn't developed my "3 rules" for recording yet but I did have a philosophy of production. It actually had two sources, one being a story about how when the Ramones were touring England one time they met Joe Strummer and Mick Jones from the then just-formed Clash. Apparently the two Brits were gushing about how the Ramones had been a big influence on them and they formed a band and were practicing and as soon as they were "good enough" they would start gigging and recording. Joey reportedly admonished them not to wait until they were better but to start producing and playing right then. The other source is very different but sums up my philosophy of production and posting pretty nicely, Voltaire's famous quote, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." The song will never be perfect but I feel that the ideas expressed in the song are solid, so I put it out there and let other people decide how good it is.
The only actual "instrument" was the Garageband preset Classic Organ. The rhythm section is me banging a pair of drumsticks together (the big ones that are sometimes called 'trees', so I could get a fat sound) and beatboxing (kinda.) The little narrative of the vocals was not so much to tell the story as to set a mood. I lowered the vocals in the mix, except for the end part, specifically because it is more about setting the mood than telling a story. I was still experimenting with some vocalized instruments, mainly beatboxing, but I've since given that up.
Thank for reading and thanks for listening!
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
My name is ShankThr33...
...but you figured that out already, didn't you?
ShankThr33, by the way, is pronounced "shank three." .
I'm on SoundCloud, which is how I came to spell the name that way. I had started writing music under the "Shank3" name but when I went to start posting on SoundCloud, someone else already had the name. As far as I know, to this day they have not posted a single thing but the name is out there. Still, it has special significance to me and I didn't want to let go of it. A-Mac, a drummer friend of mine, suggested that I spell it with the two numbers instead of two letters at the end. This, by the way, is called "leet" spelling, you can read about it in the Wikipedia link provided. I liked it, I know that several EDM (Electronic Dance Music) producers (most notably Deadmau5 but others as well, such as R3hab) use this spelling. Plus, it was almost impossible that someone else was already spelling it that way. So "Shank 3" got turned into ShankThr33.
As of this writing I have 32 songs up on SoundCloud, you can listen to them here. I love SoundCloud, it's a great place to find new artists and if you can post a good stream of stuff, you will get noticed.
If you have any questions or anything you'd like to say, of course leave a comment but you can also email me at shank3music@yahoo.com. As you can probably guess, I set that up before I changed the spelling. Don't send stuff to the gmail account, I will probably forget that I have it.
Thank you for reading and thank you for listening! I love comments and emails! I'm also on Facebook as Shank3, please like me and you'll get updates whenever I post something!
Later...
ShankThr33
ShankThr33, by the way, is pronounced "shank three." .
I'm on SoundCloud, which is how I came to spell the name that way. I had started writing music under the "Shank3" name but when I went to start posting on SoundCloud, someone else already had the name. As far as I know, to this day they have not posted a single thing but the name is out there. Still, it has special significance to me and I didn't want to let go of it. A-Mac, a drummer friend of mine, suggested that I spell it with the two numbers instead of two letters at the end. This, by the way, is called "leet" spelling, you can read about it in the Wikipedia link provided. I liked it, I know that several EDM (Electronic Dance Music) producers (most notably Deadmau5 but others as well, such as R3hab) use this spelling. Plus, it was almost impossible that someone else was already spelling it that way. So "Shank 3" got turned into ShankThr33.
As of this writing I have 32 songs up on SoundCloud, you can listen to them here. I love SoundCloud, it's a great place to find new artists and if you can post a good stream of stuff, you will get noticed.
If you have any questions or anything you'd like to say, of course leave a comment but you can also email me at shank3music@yahoo.com. As you can probably guess, I set that up before I changed the spelling. Don't send stuff to the gmail account, I will probably forget that I have it.
Thank you for reading and thank you for listening! I love comments and emails! I'm also on Facebook as Shank3, please like me and you'll get updates whenever I post something!
Later...
ShankThr33
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