Apparently, copious amounts of quarantine ennui and California weed were all that I needed to become a synth-slinging DJ
for her new track “You’ll Miss Me When I’m Not Around.” She’s not the first artist to make stems available to the public, but she did so at the perfect cultural moment. Given our endless time at home, and my partner Ilan’s musical abilities and access to an in-home studio, I wondered what we could do with the track.
Unfortunately for Ilan, I have no sense of technical terminology, so he had to deal with a lot of the following: “I want this part to sound livelier.” “Can we make that thing on the end there brighter, and can it sound like it’s going up — not down?” “More snaps! More snaps!” “How can we subtly incorporate horns and strings?” “I hear a synth in my head but I don’t know what kind of synth.
The drums sounded too one-dimensional and programmed for my liking, so we found a digital kit that was supposed to be reminiscent of the late sixties. The shaker sound that drives our version of the track is that of “eggaracas” — you know, egg-shaped maracas. The snaps aren’t just plain, ol’ snaps. We used two kinds: snaps that were recorded in a small space, and snaps that were recorded in a large space .
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