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BREEMIX

BreemiX Nova Music Production for DRueS 'N BASS

About Me


BreemiX aka Cosa (true named François Pendino) was born in April 1969, near Paris.
Sicilian dad, Basque mummy, he has his first guitar at the age of 9. His passion for music comes from his older brother and sister that introduced him to bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, The Beatles…but also from his parents that usually played Basque folklore and sicilian traditional songs, to which he is very sentimentaly attached.
Selfmade, BreemiX learned his first guitar riffs in the early 80’s rock, punk, reggae landscape when the UK musical productions invaded France. French groups as Téléphone, Ange, Trust, influenced his artistic wich and keep staying guides for his compositions, texts and music.
As a teenage, he discovered the great Jimi Hendrix, Franck Zappa and Rory Gallagher, which are still today his favorite references in which he still pick up ideas, searchig the mysteries of the 6 strings.
In this period, he discovered an exceptional place in the east southern France, called “La Baragne” : this faraway and pur place in the mountains stays his source of well being and inspiration. BreemiX’s Project wouldn’t be without “La Baragne”.
In love with the blues music, he explored the roots of modern music and discovered Robert Johnson, Tempa Red, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, etc…
Also passionate for computers, he programmed his first electro-compositions on chipset AY-3-8912 to include them in his programms (1984). Today, his passion for music, guitar, and computers, is in the center of the BreemiX’s Project.
After playing in little friendly bands, after having hunged many studios in Paris, and back from California where he has visited the American scene, he formed his own band “Cosanova Trio” in 1992. He composed the music, writed the french lyrics, sang and played guitar, acompagned with a bass and drums. During 10 years, Cosanova sounded in Paris and suburds, especialy Grigny and Villabé [depart. 91], where the band always worked. Cosanova’s sound has only one mission : spread pure energy.
After Cosanova’s experience, he played guitar in a new Accoustic Drum&Bass formation called “Ucode”, for one year, before leaving Paris to go to Portugal. “Ucode” was formed by LK, the exceptional Cosanova’s drummer, and with StephBASS on bass guitar, GWEN and FREE were singing. It was a great band!
In the same time, BreemiX explored new musical fields with his computers, meeting electrosounds, samples, guitar and Hip Hop rythms. He used trackers (NoiseTracker, ProTracker, SoundTracker, FastTrackerII…) that allow to create full orchestra, when computers are little powerfull. Since 1984 BreemiX experiments new technologies, mixed with accoustic and electric guitar. After a first electro record (13 singles “Air Bon”, 2005) never edited, he is producing a second album oriented Drum&Bass named “Open Source”. A third album named “ExpTracked” is also in conception, with even more electronical sonorities.
The artist that has certainly influenced BreemiX the most is the legendary Roni Size, fondator of the Drum&Bass mouvement and international producer, respected for his work about sound and rythm. After discovering BreemiX’s work, Roni Size has given him his honored support on his web site (www.mp3.com/ronisize).
Another great producer and singer called Aniff Akinola (Ian Brown [Stone Roses], Kirsty McColl, a Guy called Gerald Voodo Ray) has sollicited BreemiX to collaborate for “The Ironweed Project” (www.myspace.com/theironweedproject). BreemiX has realised one remixed title called “She wore hi heels”. The best works for the project will be edited on a soon to come record.
BreemiX lives now between Lisbon and Paris. He works for his scene project : making lives, mixing and playing guitar...

A LITTLE FRENCH STORY...
La complexité du Temps que de nombreux chercheurs tentent de résoudre par certains concepts mathématiques et philosophiques reste une énigme, et ce, depuis l'aube de l'Histoire, depuis la naissance de l'Univers fini que nous croyons connaître, dans son intérieur et dans son extérieur.
Les grands courants de la pensée ont montré et démontré le Sens du Temps, et toutes les religions y font référence.
Pourtant, avec la révolution virtuelle que nous vivons maintenant, avec l'avènement des nouvelles technologies et leur impact sur le comportement humain, de nouveaux domaines de recherche s'ouvrent, implémentés virtuellement par des entités nommées "Objets informatiques", sortes de concepts théoriques et physiques inventés par l'Homme, consommateurs de l'Information (donc d'Entropie Universelle), modélisés mathématiquement et codés sur des microprocesseurs de nouvelle génération, spécialement créés pour cela, et cadencés par des évènements temporels de l'ordre du milliardième de seconde, afin d'établir un lien direct avec le corps physique de l'homme (son âme est déjà virtualisée), par le biais de canaux d'entrées-sorties (I/O ports).
Ces "objets informatiques" imbriqués forment des processus structurés et fonctionnels indépendants mais peuvent bien sûr communiquer entre eux par des "pipelines" (entre processus) et interfaces de communication, leur donnant ainsi une cohérence Etatique et Philosophique, virtuelle mais bien réelle, donc une nouvelle forme d'intelligence humaine, puisque créés par l'Homme et pour l'Homme, possédant aussi une mémoire, un historique de l'information, et relançant cette quête de la Vérité, celle qui nous permettra peut-être de comprendre, de nous comprendre...
... si le Temps nous en laisse le temps...

I'm Cosa, from Cosanova's band (Paris, France), I'm Compositor & Guitarist.
I'm working on my own Electronic Music Project called "BreemiX". Before that, I was playing for 10 years in a Full Rock Trio Band called COSANOVA.
And after that in an Full Accoustic Hip/Hop Drum&Bass Formation called UCODE.
BreemiX's project began really with a first album called "Air Bon", with 13 Original Electronic Tracks inside.
"BreemiX" is a name from the contraction of two other names : "Baragne" and "RemiX". It can be "Blues" and "ReemiX" too.
"Baragne" is the name of a place where i have spent a lot of time and energy, in the south of France, since i'm 9, and it is a really peacefull and lovely green place, like a Paradise, where you have to walk 3 hours in the mountains to reach it! It is fantastic! I have learnt music in the silence of these mountains.
Now, I'm working on the second album of BreemiX, called "Open Source". A new album called "ExpTracked!" is growing up too...

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Member Since: 9/11/2006
Band Website: breemix.com
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Back to 1920's for few seconds ;)

Influences:

BreemiX, Cosanova, Ucode, Ujazz&FuncTional, Roni Size

I produce my music with tracking softwares, like FasttrackerII style...

I record & sample most of the guitars, I programm all the sounds, I mix & produce everything in BreemiX.

Tracker

Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. A tracker's interface is primarily numeric; notes are entered via the keyboard, while parameters, effects and so forth are entered in hexadecimal. A complete song consists of several small multi-channel patterns chained together via a master list.

How it works?

There are several elements common to any tracker program: samples, notes, effects, tracks (or channels), patterns, and orders.

A sample is a small digital sound file of an instrument, voice, or other sound effect. Most trackers allow a part of the sample to be looped, simulating a sustain of a note.

A note designates the frequency at which the sample is played back. By increasing or decreasing the playback speed of a digital sample, the pitch is raised or lowered, simulating instrumental notes (e.g. C, C.., D, etc.).

An effect is a special function applied to a particular note. These effects are then applied during playback through either hardware or software. Common tracker effects include volume, portamento, vibrato, retrigger, and arpeggio.

A track (or channel) is a space where one sample is played back at a time. Whereas the original Amiga trackers only provided four tracks, the hardware limit, modern trackers can mix a virtually unlimited number of channels into one sound stream through software mixing. Tracks have a fixed number of "rows" on which notes and effects can be placed (most trackers lay out tracks in a vertical fashion). Tracks typically contain 64 rows and 16 beats, although the beats and tempo can be increased or decreased to the composer's taste.

A basic drum set could thus be arranged by putting a bass drum at rows 0, 4, 8, 12 etc. of one track and putting some hihat at rows 2, 6, 10, 14 etc. of a second track. Of course bass and hats could be interleaved on the same track, if the samples are short enough. If not, the previous sample is stopped when the next one begins.

A pattern is a group of simultaneously played tracks that represents a full section of the song. A pattern is intended to represent an even number of measures of music composition.

An order is part of a sequence of patterns which defines the layout of a song. Patterns can be repeated across multiple orders to save tracking time and file space.

There are also some tracker-like programs that utilize tracker-style sequencing scheme while using real-time sound synthesis instead of samples. Many of these programs are designed for creating music for a particular synthesizer chip such as the OPL chips of the Adlib and SoundBlaster sound cards, or the sound chips of classic home computers.

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Want to know more on electronic music ? :...d'autres mouvements artistiques, comme Dada et le surréalisme, ont, avec des démarches différentes, des incidences sur le renouveau de la pensée artistique et musicale tout au long du 20ème siècle, et plus précisément vers la fin des années 50. En utilisant l’irrationalisme, l’absurdité, l’aléatoire, la provocation, la liberté totale, ces artistes font évoluer les structures musicales conventionnelles et défient les fondements, les valeurs de la société. Citons simplement à titre d'exemple les poèmes sonores du dadaïste Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). L'ouverture aux musiques extra-européennes, le blues, le jazz puis le Free Jazz, le sérialisme, puis le sérialisme intégral, tous ces courants ont une importance majeure dans évolution de l'art musical et par voie de conséquence sur la naissance et l'évolution des musiques électroniques ou électroacoustiques...



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