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Producing Basic Bliss

Producing Basic Bliss

I started this song with a random chord generator. Essentially, you go to this site and hit the “generate” button until it comes up with something you like. At the time, I was really excited about introducing randomness into my process. I had a deck of flash cards that had keys and chord progressions written on them, and I would pull a key from one stack, and four cards that named chords in the key from another. I built a bunch of

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Mixtape 25
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Mixtape 25

This is a great summer playlist. When I wrote “Basic Bliss,” I was listening to this, trying to figure out how to make a song that would fit on this playlist in particular. Queen’s “Cool Cat” was really influential to me on that song. I just wanted to make something that felt like summer. Some standout tracks from this are the excellent DJ Premier produced…

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