Katamari Damacy - Katamari Stars Boom Bap

[Ridiculously Garrett]

EDIT: Forgot the most important part... record scratch. Updated wip below.

 

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Edited Wednesday at 02:53 AM by Ridiculously Garrett
Updating wip

[Liontamer ⚖️]

Cool instrumentation choices. If you can get it sounding more fluid/humanized, the concept has legs. :-)

[Ridiculously Garrett]

Thanks. I'll have to work that out. I decided I like the original chord progression (with the Bb minor chord instead of dominant/altered) better so I updated. Easier to keep the melody intact which I think is necessary since the style is so whacky. It's more moody with the minor as well. I'll work on arranging/humanizing.

[Ridiculously Garrett]

 

 

EDIT: So I'm seeing my main problem with arranging/mixing is I don't have access to a whole lot of versatile, high quality sounds. I'm not super pleased with the piano sound - I think it sounds fine as the chords, but the melody just sounds thin and robotic. I need a better sound or two for the melody(ies)... it will help keep it interesting and contrast with the piano better.

 

Especially since, if you evaluate “mainstream” arrangements from the 50s for example, the instruments that are melodizing and harmonizing change about every 8 bars, keeping the piece interesting. Same goes for big band jazz. Count Basie makes it especially easy to see this. He’ll have the brass “call” the melody in the A section, with woodwinds “responding”, then for the B section swap them (woodwinds call and brass respond), then when refraining the A section will swap back. In bebop and hard bop, you may or may not see this less in the arrangement, but you have solos, and even trading solos, between instruments to keep things interesting. This is even common in some hip hop groups. A Tribe Called Quest has each member taking turns with their verses, synonymous with the bebop solos of a previous era. There are even spoken references in the lyrics to bebop throughout many different hip hop artists from that time, the 90s. But I digress… point is I need more interesting, quality sounds.

Edited 11 hours ago by Ridiculously Garrett

[Rukunetsu]

Definitely like what you've got goin on here.