Honestly, I think remixing Kurp’s stuff, here with youdontknowme, is always a bit tricky and maybe risky. Mainly because of how solid his compositions and production are, but also because of his super precise and unique style. It's like a signature vibe that anyone who's been around this site for a while can instantly recognize and, for me, appreciate. In your case, I think you managed to keep that vibe intact (which is a plus for me) while actually improving the sound and overall feel.
A remix on the 4 year old collab Kurp did with youdontknowme.
My compliments to the original creators.
Picture is from the Sky where I live.
I listened to this song, and it kind of struck me. Put a whole image into my head. I decided to pick it up as a side project.
Side project became main project, and gets finished pretty quickly. Fancy that. I think the only thing i'd add is some more gainstaging, maybe a little more focused equalisation.
As usual, feedback please. Literally, anything. Tell me it's dogshit if that's what you feel. I'd prefer constructive feedback, but at this point I feel totally stagnant. I'll take whatever input I can, positive or otherwise.
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I was just searching for my account kurp on audiotool and accidentally hit enter and noticed this track on the weekly date charts. to my pleasant surprise, i see people actually care what i do even though i'm not that active lol glad i could inspire people and make interesting beats
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Honestly, it's like CLASSIC Kurp. I love Kurp's style, and his development into the stuff he's doing now as Kanaris is legit mental.
Being able to maintain that energy was important to me at least in the track, while I wanted to add a hell of a lot more grit to both the track and the composition to give it a bit more bite.
Good advice though: I do think these things come in waves. Just need to ride the gnar.
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Republished
Added gainstaging
Added EQ
Added more percussive variation
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WOAH
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I don't exactly have much feedback other than that this sounds great. What I'd personally do is perhaps give this track more percussive changes, more percussion overall to enforce the tempo a bit, but that slow evolution is a big part of the feel in this track, so I'd say this is great the way this is.
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Thanks for the advice and the feed back as well. More of a percussive switch up would definitely add a little more bite to the evolution so longas it actually tracks with the tempo.
If I look back at the tracks I had the most fun on, they all have some kind of creative limit. Either the one hour challanges I did, or adheirng so some kind of weird syncopation. Definitely worth revisiting those kind of ideas!
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My small challenges don't really solve everything, but I tend to find some kind of solid melody that makes me feel less bad about the creative draught.
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Also I feel very stagnant too. What I like to do in that case is erase all expectations and do small challenges, like, picking a genre/tempo/word/sample/whatever fundamental thing you can find. Then, give yourself a time limit for creating the basis of a track. Not too long, not too short. For me, 2 hours is already too much and I haven't finished any of those sessions yet. I already expect too much in those. Like this you make drafts you could later expand up on.
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You expanded on it and gave it more depth, so for me, it’s definitely far from crap, quite the opposite actually.
As for feeling stuck, I’m not sure if you have other projects going on or what exactly you’re stuck on. I’ve been there too, and honestly, I try not to stress about it or force that flow to come back. I just focus on something else for a bit, and eventually, it passes and the inspiration comes back around. But that’s just my take.
Anyway, I really dig what you did here!
