I have a lot of older music. I have been doing electronic music - proper - since around '99. I first heard great drum and bass when I moved to Manhattan in '98 to go study music composition at a university. I used to love going to Konkrete Jungle, which even back then billed itself as the longest running weekly drum and bass party. It is still going on to this day. Anyhow, I soon got hooked into the underground party scene and continued my education in electronic music. What I learned was that I hated techno or anything close to it. But I digress. What I never liked about jungle or drum and bass or what you want to call it is that it was always "dark". I call it soulless. So, it became my mission to write drum and bass that was infused with musical goodness inspired by twentieth century French and Russian composers. I have kind of moved on from that aesthetic but a few weeks ago I managed to open an old session of a track I did called UpsideDown. This was right before I started to experiment with singing with my music which turned into me learning how to actually write songs and thus what became the album Injured. The filename says 10-19-02 and I know I arranged this quickly - like a few days which is something I don't often do. It is a very cute and fun piece of music. However, I didn't have the skills then to mix it properly so I was never satisfied. I remixed it, meaning I added compressors and a better sounding reverb, but the arrangement is true to what I did back then. Enjoy.
Gabino - UpsideDown.mp3
Gabino - UpsideDown.mp3
