Drums | Joel Laviolette

Displaying Music with the Tag: Drums

Borrowed Names

-Joel Laviolette

A generative musical piece that explores the randomness in letter to pitch transformations and finding beauty in that randomness.

Tags:Ambient, Contemplative, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Generative, Lo-Fi, Modular Synth, No Vocals, Sound Design, Story, Wistful

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Come What May

-Joel Laviolette

An Mbira and Reggae groove sprinkled with Garage Bass

Tags:Ambient, Contemplative, Distorted, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Guitar, Lo-Fi, Mbira, Modular Synth, Sound Design

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Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

-Joel Laviolette

Old School Techno meets modular synth sound explorations in this new EP

Tags:Aggressive, Distorted, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Glitch, Modular Synth, Psy Trance, Sound Design, Synth Heavy, Techno, Vocals

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Dudidodo

-Joel Laviolette

Old School Techno meets modular synth sound explorations in this new EP

Tags:Aggressive, Distorted, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Glitch, Modular Synth, Psy Trance, Sound Design, Synth Heavy, Techno, Vocals

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En Galop

-Rattletree

Rattletree's brooding take on a Joanna Newsom classic

Tags:Contemplative, Cover Song, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Full Band, Story, Vocals, Wistful

Polyphonic Hocket looks at two specific traditional Zimbabwean rhythms and splits them between pairs of marimba players. The people playing High 1 and Low 2 are facing each other and sharing a single rhythm on the bongos. The pair on High 2 and Low 1 are doing the same thing with a different rhythm.

Tags:Drums, Marimba, percussion

Fools Gold (Stone Roses Cover)

-MbiraMe

A synthed out version of a classic indie pop song by Stone Roses.

Tags:Cover Song, DJ, Dance, Drums, Dubstep, Electronic, Happy, Jump, Odd Time Signature, Synth Heavy, Vocals, Wobble

Hollow Bells

-Joel Laviolette

The modular synth ricocheting it's FM beauty against modular percussion. Alien landscapes result

Tags:Ambient, Contemplative, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Generative, Lo-Fi, Modular Synth, No Vocals, Sound Design, Story, Wistful

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In The Flow

-Rattletree

Coming soon on Ecstatic Wave Records! A half-step Indie Rock song about giving ourselves a break.

Tags:African, Aggressive, Contemplative, Dance, Distorted, Drums, Dubstep, Electronic, Full Band, Guitar, Sound Design, Story, Synth Heavy

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Joy

-Rattletree

The title track of of Rattletree's debut EP. A high energy dance song!

Tags:Dance, Drums, Electronic, Full Band, Happy, High Energy, Jump, No Vocals, Shona, Synth Heavy, Uplifting, World Music

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Just Let It Go

-Joel Laviolette

Intricate synths and a bass interweave with sound design elements and percussion in this contemplative piece.

Tags:Aggressive, DJ, Dance, Distorted, Drums, Electronic, Glitch, High Energy, Jump, Modular Synth, Psy Trance, Sound Design, Synth Heavy, Trance, Uplifting, Vocals

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Kufungira Matemai

-Joel Laviolette

I have been thinking about my teacher, mentor, and good friend Matemai who I have studied mbira with since 1998. He passed away in 2021 and this is a song based on the last mbira song I learned from him.

Tags:African, Drums, Full Band, Guitar, Mbira, Shona, Vocals, Zimbabwean

Love Ourselves

-Ancient Forward

A dark afro-glitch dance song.

Tags:Distorted, Drums, Full Band, Guitar, High Energy, Jump, Sweat, Synth Heavy, Trance, Vocals

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Max Eliminates the Phrases and We Were Never the Same

-Mbirame

The first mbira music generator created fully with Max 7. Read the details for a deeper explanation.

Tags:Ambient, Contemplative, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Generative, Lo-Fi, Modular Synth, No Vocals, Sound Design, Story, Wistful

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My Time and My Mind

-Joel Laviolette

Does our belief create our reality or vise versa?

Tags:Ambient, Contemplative, Distorted, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Guitar, Lo-Fi, Mbira, Modular Synth, Sound Design

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Nostalgia

-Joel Laviolette

Beautiful piano and light strings set the mood for this forest scene.

Tags:Ambient, Contemplative, Cue, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Hans Zimmer, Lo-Fi, No Vocals, Orchestral, Sound Design, Strings, Timpani

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Seems Like It’s Been So Long

-Joel Laviolette

A story of a man trying to find his way through the spirituality and ancient traditions of a music that he was drawn to.

Tags:Acoustic, African, Contemplative, Demo, Downtempo, Drums, Guitar, Lo-Fi, Odd Time Signature, Singer Songwriter, Story, Vocals, World Music

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Space Sunset

-Joel Laviolette

An orchestral riser cue

Tags:Ambient, Contemplative, Cue, Downtempo, Drums, Electronic, Hans Zimmer, Lo-Fi, No Vocals, Orchestral, Sound Design, Strings, Timpani

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Standing Tall

-Joel Laviolette

Matepe music meets Zim-style Afrobeat. Recorded and originally released independently in 2009. Now available worldwide on Ecstatic Wave Records

Tags:African, Aggressive, Dance, Distorted, Drums, Full Band, Glitch, Guitar, Mbira, Shona, Vocals, Zimbabwean

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Starfire

-Joel Laviolette

A tribe is chanting somewhere in the forest. You can't tell from the sound if they are miles away or only over the next hill. In any case, the music will guide you safely to them.