Archive for September, 2009

Is this Martin Homent’s moment?

Martin has only been producing music for a few months so he decided to try out his skills with 30beats. He tells us: “I loved the challenge of creating beats using car sounds. I used every car sound for the music and nothing else has been added. “I wanted to keep the music as close [...]

Hyundai 30Beats Remix – Gareth Fortescue

Gareth Fortescue Amazingly, Gareth is a bedroom producer who puts tracks together inbetween shifts behind the wheel of a truck. Gareth tells us: “I tried to use all the sounds but the track became too complex, so this is the slimline lite version…enjoy!”

Steve Jones adds some spooky magic to 30beats

Steve Jones tells us; “Usually I write my own material and work on little collaborations with others. I saw this competition and thought it would be a good challenge to undertake.” Other work from Steve can be found at SpookyAgenda

Dominic Calton used Ableton Live to make entry nine

Dominic Calton’s take on mechanical music uses 8 samples from the pack. Dominic tells 30beats; “I have been messing with music technology since 1988. I used 8 samples for the competition mainly for percussion. I used Ableton Live to make my entry.”

Hyundai 30Beats Remix – Nikky French

Nikky French Nikky is a musician and producer from Brighton and regularly experiments with sound by using street recordings in his band’s creations. Nikky tells us: “This seemed like a fun little project and the quality of the original car recordings were so high that I couldn’t justify putting in extra sounds from synths or [...]