The first pop-fusion song they cover, a smooth-jazz rendition of Avicii’s hit record “Wake Me Up,” reflects a shift in key. One thing you can expect from this band is a lot of key changes.
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The synth patch used in “Sayonara Love” resembles something you would hear in a Japanese electronica song, which is fitting for the lyrics. Songs that follow, such as “Sexy Girls” and “Sayonara Love” place an emphasis on oddly specific synthesizers that fit the songs very well. It features intricate drum and bass fills, as well as Nilsson belting some insane vocal runs. The album starts with the first original song the band released through YouTube called “Hit Me,” which shows the upbeat side of the band and gauges the bands’ skill level. The album was co-produced by Andreas Carlsson (Backstreet Boys, Katy Perry) and David Foster.
Well, since my Axe Fx III produces killer guitar tones, that I really like, I thought it might also be able to chuck out some decent bass.Known prior to its debut release primarily for covering popular songs, the trio takes a stab at some original material with the Aug. I programmed a preset with an amp block with the two Ampegs and the two Boogies.
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Plus two cab blocks with assorted stock bass cab IRs I could find and thought would be useful. Then I took my rig (Axe Fx III) and a Yamaha DXR10 (which I absolutely love, sold my ASM-12 for it. ) over to my buddies house, who is a great bass player and used to play in a band with me. Hooked it all up, and - what do you know ? - not at all that bad He was playing and I was switching amps and cabs back and forth until I finally saw the really big "I can't believe it" face on him. It was a Boogie paired with a 4x10 metal cone (Hartke ?) and a SV 15 with bass kick. An absolutely brilliant bass sound that had punch, lots of really clear bottom end and real definition over the whole frequency spectrum.
And all that with my little 1x10 Yamaha DXR10. "So, let's compare it to my standard "go to" bass rig", he said, which is a German high end and high power Glockenklang head with two high end 1x12 cabs - the really expensive stuff. We both thought that the Axe Fx III was WAY better - the "in room" bass rig sounded mushy and dull against the Axe Fx III rig.
What did we learn ? - the Axe Fx III also does killer bass tones, which need not hide behind any high end "real" bass rigs. Every once in a while a band comes around that defies definition, a band so inimitable in its approach to music that it turns a genre on its head and leaves one wondering, “ WHAT WAS THAT?!” Well, that’s exactly what Sweden’s best kept secret, Dirty Loops, has done with their debut album, Loopified. Meet Dirty Loops - They are longtime friends and music school classmates Jonah Nilsson (vocals/keyboards), Henrik Linder (bass), and Aron Mellergardh (drums) who hail from Stockholm, Sweden and have made name for themselves with their twisted pop covers beginning with their take on Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance.” That video, which was made in the winter 2010 while the three band members attended Royal College of Music in Stockholm, became wildly successful with over 100,000 YouTube views and 10,000 Facebook shares in the first two month’s of release… without any promotion or social media savvy. The group’s videos have now garnered a total of 19 million YouTube views to date, and their first original single, “Hit Me,” has just entered theTop 10 in Japan.ĭirty Loops’ viral covers – which also include Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” Britney Spears’ “Circus,” Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack,” and Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” (re-imagined as “Prude Girl”) – drew the attention of some of the biggest names in music today. Swedish producer/songwriter Andreas Carlsson signed the group to a management deal producer/songwriter David Foster signed the group to his Verve Records and brought them on his tour of Asia in 2012 and the group has a long list of famous fans that includes Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Adam Levine, Dallas Austin, Rodney Jerkins, Brian McKnight, and Avicii. “The reason we initially started Dirty Loops was just for fun and for a creative outlet. We were doing a lot of session work and we were creatively bored. We started doing covers just as a fun creative outlet for ourselves. It felt like freedom to us,” explains Henrik, a session bass player since age 16, of Dirty Loops’ beginnings in 2008.
It wasn’t just Dirty Loops’ clever choice of covers or exemplary musicianship (R&B/pop superstar Brian McKnight even called them “the most musical” band he’s heard) that sent the band on their rising musical trajectory. Rather, it was their distinctive approach to taking a pop song, and, well, “loopifying” it that resonated with everyone.
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