In 2001, I downloaded the demo for Reason, from Propellerheads software. I can’t quite recall how I heard of them. This was one of the most amazing demos I’d ever seen. It was save-disabled and time-bombed to run just 20 minutes. I didn’t care. I would load the demo, mess with a rack synthesizer or a drum machine, add a sequencer, get a loop, and have it continue playing while I recorded it into a KORG hand held digital 4 track. I did some amazingly bad compositions that way. But they were complete, I was producing, and that was the itch that needed the scratching.
I purchased Reason and began messing with full, in-application produced songs. I don’t know why, but this just felt right. I play guitar and sing just fine, but I’ve never gotten one of these to bust my lyric or string demons out of their cages to play. Just as well, I like the style of production as an alternative to the classic sweat and guts methods. Recently, Propellerheads added Record, basically a better GarageBand (IMO) that subsumes an installed Reason setup. Much better audio production tools, much bigger sounds. Now remixes are even easier.
The over-arching genre of this stuff would probably be “chill out room” fare. Even the more up-tempo stuff generally lends itself to a wind-down rather than a grind-up. Because of this, I’ve never really gotten a clear vision of how to play out with it. They’re full Reason/Record stacks, that means they are essentially performance-less. I’m working on it. Any suggestions are welcome, but likely not reimbursable.
OHP – STI (Lazy Blaze Remix) by Lazy Blaze
I Was Two Years Ago by Lazy Blaze
Sacked by Lazy Blaze
