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Check Your Dreams – Brand New Music
This trippy, labile, shimmering walkabout on the waves of synthetic sound is my latest gift to an unsuspecting world. It hatched from my brain and tickled my neurons to the extent that I just had to share it with the world. I hope that it scratches that aural itch and gives you the feels when you listen to it.
Listen to the Radio Edit here:
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About The Track
Genre
Check Your Dreams keywords: deep house, trippy electronica, minimal house. The kick cuts through quite heftily and gives the track a bit more pump. The BPM is a chirpy 124, my favorite BPM to mix, so it is a mid-energy track.
Where does it fit in the mix?
In a mix, I ease this tune in at one of two points: It would fit at the tail end of a warm up section of a longer mix – just when the fluff turns to puff. Otherwise, it could roll gently in the wee hours of a chillout afters, when things are all sparkly and you are in love with your life, and your friends. 💚💙🩵🫂
Just like Groove Machine, my first release of the year, this new track’s overall genre is deep house.
Production Babble
I composed, arranged, and produced Check Your Dreams using Ableton Live 12. I used various plugins to craft a unique sound design, but I didn’t use hardware synths. I have a few, and I really long to use them. But right now, time is very tight, and I have to streamline my production.
Voice Sample
This song came to me in the middle of the night. I recorded the voice sample, and went back to sleep.
When I went to produce a few days later, I thought about re-recording the voice. But I decided to keep it.
I like the breathiness of the voice. I also like that it is just a little bit off- kilter. I keeps it organic, as I did it without a click track. I AirDropped the sample from my phone to my iMac, imported it as a .wav into Ableton with warping OFF, checked its key with Spectrum, and EQ’d it. For some parts, I chopped the voice sample up to get interesting rhythmic elements and ear candy. I tidied it some basic reverb and de-essing, but left everything else to the mix engineer.
Mixing and Mastering
I am lucky to have a collaborator who mixes and masters my tracks for me. I trust his ear completely. Plus, he brushes up the arrangements for me. Usually it’s just the intro and outro, which are important only to DJ’s. But, for anyone who mixes, you KNOW that the intros and outros are super important. So, thanks you-know-who.
Time saving production tip: use a template
My default template when I open Live has four tracks. The template key is set to D minor.
Track 1 is MIDI and loads with Kick2 . I leave the default kick on, but have a bunch of User presets that are all tuned in the key of D. Deep house tracks usually have a warm, bouncy kick sound, so I tend to go for that vibe.
There are another two midi tracks for my hats and bongos, and an audio track. The drum racks are made of samples tuned to D and A.
I put a limiter and Spectrum on the Master track, so when I need to tune samples or instruments, I can just solo the track that I am working with, and watch Spectrum on the master.
What’s Next?
I have another tune that is nearly finished. If you sign up to my mailing list, you can get a free MP3 copy the week before it gets released. Here is the sign-up form:
Biography: Miss Rachel Rose
Miss Rachel Rose is a DJ and producer based near Benidorm, Spain. She is a self-taught singer-songwriter with a long-standing passion for music and the music business. Rachel holds a Masters in Neuromusic, and is currently studying solfège, music theory, and composition.
Where to hear catch a live DJ set
I have a weekly gig in Benidorm, at the Caiman Beach Bar.
- When: Every Saturday
- Time: 4-6 PM (16.00-18:00 hrs)
- Where: Caiman Beach Bar, Av. de Madrid no.13, Benidorm
- What to expect: Deep, groovy, funky house music in a seafront location with cocktails, cold beer, and lovely service.