Eric Miner - minor proposal

For the Minor Project, I've decided to mix a hip-hop/electronic song. I found the song Easy Tiger by ANiMAL on the Cambridge website. The reason I chose this song was because it reminded me of the song I made for 365 and that is the type of music I'm interested in making. The raw audio files were very dry sounding, so my goal with this mix is to give it a polished feel, that people can play at clubs and parties. This style of rap is very popular with the college crowd, they love an upbeat tempo, heavy bass, hard drums, and big fat synths, and I want to be able to accentuate all of those key components.

I'm fairly flexible with my schedule, at least for the first few weeks, so I'm hoping to get a majority of the work done early, so that later when I get busy I wont have problems finding a time to work. Monday afternoons are the best for me, since I only have one class from 11-12.

As for a couple of reference tracks, they're are entirely too many to list! One of my favorite music blogs is thissongissick.com that specializes in electronic music and posts tons of electronic hip-hop songs. One artist that comes to mind when I listen to Easy Tiger is Nā Palm. He is a party rapper, with electronic beats, and sounds very similar to ANiMAL. The song that is most similar is Two Days Straight, that has nice synths, solid bass and a beat that will make you want to move your body. Another of his song, Shit-Faced'ed is similar. These will be my two main reference tracks, but the blog I mentioned earlier could potentially be giving me multiple new ones on a daily basis.

I think the biggest hurdle for this mix will be to fit all of the sounds in. Since the synths are so fat, I want to keep them present and a focal point of the song, but I dont want them to overpower and down other sounds out. As long as I can do that, I think this will be a great mix!

http://www.previews.cambridge-mt.com/EasyTiger_Full_Preview.mp3