Mercury RED

Tag: congas

  • FUNKY JESUS

    there isn’t much to explain here. it’s called funky jesus. that already does most of the work.

    this track came together during a period of exploration, around the time i first got an edirol midi controller. i was obsessed with how it felt to play the bass parts, hitting the notes hard and letting the groove carry everything else.

    really, the song exists because i wanted an excuse to use that bass sound and that controller. it’s playful, a little irreverent, and mostly just fun. sometimes that’s enough.

    credits:
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    mercury red, 2002
    production & guitar = erich huffaker

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  • INSOMNIA

    late night voodoo funk track, you won’t sleep after listening to. try to catch the melodic conversation between the congas, bongo and trap kit.

    i worked on this track during long stretches of insomnia while living in mali in the 2000s. i had brought an edirol midi controller with me and used it to program all the drum parts, obsessing over each line, each interaction, late at night when sleep wouldn’t come.

    listening back, i’m still drawn to the conversation between the bongos and the congas. it’s strange and playful, almost argumentative at times. this was also one of the first tracks where i used horns, and they were heavily influenced by the malian and djembe music i was studying then. at the time, i was mostly playing djembe when i wasn’t working on music on my computer.

    credits:
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    mercury red, 2002
    production & guitar = erich huffaker

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