I think it's inspiring when you can use it the way it's used in. The sounds are really basic and primitive for what they are. isn't really geared toward that so if I need to use it I'll use a different program, Reason. I don't use MIDI at all in my own productions. That was really crazy to me.Īnd about the score how do general MIDI sounds influence you? Tell me about those sounds and yourself because I feel like a lot of people are using those sounds right now. Also, the idea of the fish, when you go inside its body and that's the whole level, you exploring the insides of this fish. I think one of the ones that I remember was the Zora cave, the first time you go in there. So, going back to the scenery that inspired you in Ocarina of Time, which part of the game are you remembering? Obviously the graphics compared to what's out there now seem kind of bad but it's an amazing game all-around.' Our interview ended shortly afterwards but I had to follow up on how this important game influenced this important rap producer, so we grabbed Clams Casino on the phone a few days later to ask him about solely about Zelda. When asked about the non-musical things that helped fuel the album, Clams says that video games, especially 1998's classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, helped his vision. Maybe there was too much bass in the kick drum and it was distorting so I'd distort the sample to cover it up.'ģ2 Levels is an even further step forward, with Clams recording most of the material instead of drawing from samples. The digital distortion from the overloaded audio files, however, ended up informing his subsequent process, 'I started adding distortion to cover up some of the sounds. He admits it was inexperience and that he moved on from the practice for 2011's Rainforest EP. 'I wasn't really mastering properly, I was just turning the volume up,' says Clams. Clams' debut album 32 Levels isn't much of a true debut, as his fan base and legend was built on his series of free beat tapes, so idiosyncratic and striking that they transcended lo-fi origins.

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