Bolivia - "Highway 22" Track

Earlier today, I was starting to master the recordings of the shows that I did in Vegas a couple months ago, before putting them online, then discovered another project that I had forgotten about. There’s a track that I played both nights (slightly different versions) as an experiment – one that I had produced myself. The style is sort of a progressive house sort of track, no vocals or anything. It wasn’t a finished track, but I’m going to post it here anyway for fun. This is more for educational purposes than as a professional release. I’ll try to get the final version finished next week and share it.

In terms of the production, this version is entirely self-contained as a Reason 4 file. You can download the mp3 if you want, or if you have Reason 4, you can download the RPS or RNS song files, if you want to see how it was put together. It’s pretty basic, and at the moment, everything is done within Reason. When I finish it up next week, I’m going to Rewire it into Sonar and then it needs some serious mixing and mastering. I also have a ton of little changes that I'd like to make to the basic sequencing and midi data for the "final" version. Especially in the drums, which are far too repetitive right now.

And here are the links to the Reason files:

http://www.djbolivia.ca/production/Highway_22_Reason_Ninja.rps
http://www.djbolivia.ca/production/Highway_22_Reason_Ninja.rns

Feel free to share them around, if you want. Actually, once I get the final version done, I might release those files too, and tell people that they may feel free to remix it if they want. I could even pick a few of the best remixes and publish them on my website and Facebook fan page.



By the way, highway 22 is NOT in Bolivia, in case anyone thinks that is where the photo was taken. It's a highway in Alberta that I was working on at the time that I put the track together.

If any other producers out there want to give me some helpful feedback and critical analysis, feel free to write to me at djbolivia@gmail.com. Most importantly, remember that this was done in headphones on a laptop, and there is no mastering yet, so the overall levels don't have much punch (yet).

Music/production copyright ©2010, Jonathan Clark.