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Hello!

Posted by Tony on 05/15/2023

Hi everyone,

I’ve decided it’s time to break character a bit and post a proper update.

The past few years have been extremely busy for me, I got married, had a baby, started a new job, and worked endlessly on various music projects (none of which will be posted here unfortunately). Needless to say, these are all wonderful, positive advancements (not that my life was lacking beforehand) but they left me with very limited free time. I had to carefully pick and choose where my focus was, and as a result, this blog suffered from short, sporadic, and frankly uninteresting updates from myself.

Happily, things are now starting to calm down a bit and I have some, albeit very limited, free time available. Also, due to receiving some wonderful and unexpected feedback and comments on this blog, I no longer feel like I am peeing in the wind and my interest in plugging away with it has been renewed!

I want to thank anyone who has left a comment or got in touch with me over this blog (whether the comment was positive or not) because all feedback is good feedback and they all sever to inspire me little by little.

Anyway, let’s cut to the chase – I am back and will be posting better quality, longer posts and hopefully giving away some weird music. Thank you all for your participation, and long may it continue

Tony

PS (I’ve just completed work on some dancehall/dub tunes that I think are particularly fun. I may post some samples/snippets from them if I get permission from the label owner). If not, I’ll be sure to post a link when they’re good for release.



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Oral John “Me No Wah No Bun”

Posted by Tony on 07/07/2022

Some more, rare, dancehall for everyone. I don’t have much to say about this one, knowing nothing about Oral John or the label Cotton Tail. What I can say is that I like it very much.

Oral John “Me No Wah No Bun”
Oral John – Me No Wah No Bun
Oral John – Me No Wah No Bun (Dub Version)

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Ackie / Chesse Roots “Call Me Rambo”

Posted by Tony on 06/10/2022

Hello dweebs. Here’s a copy of a cool record I have. 1986 Dancehall feel.

I’m posting this here because all of the other recording sound horrible – including the CD version on Basic Reply (shame on whoever mastered those!).

I’d also like to know if anyone can provide me with some more information on the label “Heavyweight” as there’s very little info online. And who are “Roy & Robbie” on the label? Really, any info would be great.

Anyway here’s the tunes

Ackie / Chesse Roots “Call Me Rambo”
A1 Ackie – Call Me Rambo
B1 Chesse Roots – Rambo Gun Salute

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Lvcchesi “Radioradio”

Posted by Tony on 06/24/2021

Some short little radio edits I made this weekend. File under Juke / Footwork.

Lvcchesi “Radioradio”

I’m not going to list all the gear this time as I can’t quite remember. It’s basically a Novation DrumsStation and a lot of rhythm writing. Oh and a Waldorf MicroWave XT, but you knew that.

Lvcchesi “Househouse”
Lvcchesi “Gasdgads”


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Lvcchesi “Shorty Want A Trap House”

Posted by Tony on 04/11/2021

Still digging down the rabbit hole. I think I’m reaching the end of the road for this sort of thing, or at least without some sort of drastic writing change. I do like this one though, and I think it’s pretty close to what I imagined.

Lvcchesi “Shorty Want A Trap House”

I can’t fully remember what I used, but in essence, it was:

  • Novation DrumStation (kick and shaker)
  • Antares AVP-1 (used for stereo effect on kick)
  • Kawai K4R (snare, misc. percussion)
  • Akai MPC 4000 (sequencing, sampling vocal)
  • Behringer Filter Machine FM600
  • Behringer Ultra Metal UM 300 (distortion various elements)
  • Lexicon Reverbs
  • RNC1773 Compressor (used on kick)
  • TC Electronics Fireworx (effect reverbs, delays)
  • SPL Transient Designer (gentle use on each track)
  • Art Pro VLA II (master)
  • Voxengo Elephant 3 (fabulous limiter, and highpass filter)
  • And the vocal sample is from an old RA The Rugged Man track, although it’s not RA.

I’ve taken to recording at 96kHz recently because I’ve found that some of the processors I use sound a little better at super high sampling rates like that. Also, I do a lot of sampling and pitching of my own recordings, so having it all in 96kHz give me a little more headroom for twisting them. This is then resampled to 44.1kHz 24bit once the master is complete.

I’ve been using iZotope RX8 to finalise the masters recently, it think it has the best sounding resampling algorithm I’ve tested so far. Clean and warm. if you’re interested the settings I use are shown below:

iZotope RX8 resample settings.



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Lvcchesi “Sly Herbs”

Posted by Tony on 04/03/2021

I made some significant changes to my monitoring setup recently – was finally able to settle in the sub and get a decent response down to around 20Hz. This means I don’t need to be so reliant on headphones when making music, which I think is always a huge bonus. Headphones reveal too much, and at the same time don’t really give you a full picture of what’s happening.

In order to test my new setup, I spend a while messing around with a new idea. I think sonically it cabe out really well, and hopefully solidifies the changes I’ve made.

Lvcchesi "Sly Herbs"
Lvcchesi “Sly Herbs”

A bit of juke / tech stuff made on the following:

  • Waldorf MicroWave XT (drums and percussion, as well as pads)
  • Roland M-DC1 (snare)
  • Yamaha TX81Z (small textures)
  • Art Pro VLA II (master)
  • Toft ATC-2 (track compression and EQ)
  • Vermona DSR-3 (spring reverb on pad)
  • Roland RE-201 Space Echo (delay elements)
  • various guitar pedals (tremolo, distortion, chorus, simple delay etc.)
  • SPL Transient Designer (use on each track)
  • Akai MPC 4000 (sequencing, sampling vocal)
  • Lexicon Reverb (utility reverbs, mixing, placement etc.)
  • Voxengo Elephant 3 (fabulous limiter, and highpass filter)

It’s kinda goofy sounding, but I’m trying to push forward into something new. I quite like it, and I think it’s one of the most cleanly produced things I’ve done in a while. There’s a handshake waiting for anyone who can name me the vocal samples (hint in the title).

You can download it here: https://www.lvcchesi.com/downloads/herbs.zip



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Philips “Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions”

Posted by Tony on 04/01/2021

A weird promotional LP I picked up because it’s got a track by Labi Siffre (everyone has a price… or a contract enforceable by law).

I guess this was given out free to suppliers or partners of Philips to celebrate their manufacturing of the 100 millionth television. No doubt the old, boxy, CRT-type. It has lovely ‘pop-up’ bouquet of flowers inside the gatefold (as seen below), although it does feel a little funeral-like now.

1.01. London Philharmonic Orchestra – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (Overture)
1.02. Labi Siffre And Vicky Brown – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (English Version)
1.03. Dutch Swing College Band – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (Dixieland Version)
1.04. Pascale Richard – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (French Version)
1.05. Philips – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (Reggae Version)
1.06. Vicky Leandros – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (German Version)
1.07. Laurens Van Rooyen And Berdien Stenberg – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (Classical Version)
1.08. José Umbral – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (Spanish Version)
1.09. Romanian Orchestra Andrei Serban – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (Gypsy Version)
1.10. Jody Pijper And Hans Vermeulen – Thanks For 100 Million Philips Televisions (Dutch Version)


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