The Tame

Notes

"The Tame"

Produced by: Dutchyyy

Album: "The Uproot"

Track: 15

Year Created: 2014

Song Originally Released:  February 28, 2014  (soundcloud)

+ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-uproot

+ https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-

+ https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-b-demo-version-

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Backstory:

In mid Feb of 2014 I found out from the landlord of my 2nd apartment in Los Angeles that he wouldn't allow me to renew my lease which was ending that month.  I didn't really have a large enough notice to find a new place in time so my homie Jin who had been wanting to spend a weekend over offered to come help me pack and start putting stuff in storage.  After a long day of packing and back and forth trips to storage we wound down by watching some anime,  Sword Art Online to be exact...   I remember him purposely mispronouncing the main protagonist's name "Kirito" and kept calling him "Kitty Toe" which for some reason lightened up the stressful mood that filled the near empty apartment.  The intro / theme song for S.A.O. titled "Crossing Field" by LiSA was super dope and kept hyping us up as we binge watched episode after episode,  It was only a matter of time before one of us brought it up....  and Jin beat me to the punch....  "Dutch, I know you're gonna end up sampling this aren't you"        To be honest, I was barely watching the anime as my mind kept wandering trying to figure out where the hell I was gonna sleep or live or how I was gonna get to work in a few days so sampling or music just wasn't on my mind.

He then said that he always wanted to see how I make beats and flip samples in a way they are hardly recognizable anymore.  So I paused the show and said "I can flip the intro music right now or you can tell me song you've always wished someone would flip and I'll use that and show you right now"

He chose option 2....   Telling me the name of his favorite song [Redacted] by his favorite band [Redacted] which at the time I had never heard of......         and after hearing it I was so confused how such a dope song and band ever slipped past my radar.....

Bought the album to have the highest quality version and loaded it into Ableton live and slowly showed Jin my workflow when making beats....

The next day, we took more trips to storage, leaving only my laptop, speakers and midi keyboard and 2 chairs at the apartment...   When we got back, I loaded up the session I started the night before, setting the speakers up on the kitchen counter top,  and said "give me 1 hour to focus and black out on this track before I turn me key in" and quickly dumped all my emotion into the session,  adding bass, accents, some more drums and rushing through adding a intro and outro.....    I exported a demo version and immediately uploaded it to Soundcloud as the Final beat created in the actual final moments of living in that apartment in Los Angeles....       Uprooted AF...

+ https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/dutchy-the-tame

And thus, "The Tame" was born