Funding Application

Open Music Funding

We wish to apply to the open music funding by PRS For Music Foundation to further our journey with our Sound 'Bashment's Backbone' over the years of performing in small venues, we've accumulated quite a loyal following base and the four of us (Jax, Tempo, Mod and myself) think it's about time we toured around the UK. Our fans are often mailing and emailing us that they would love to see us perform but since so far we've only been limited to London due to not having the funds to transport all our equipment with us to the other side of the country or even to Northern Ireland. We use drum pads, looping, vocals, synths, a range of instrumentd and pre-recorded tracks in our performances, which i believe makes us unique and has allowed us to grow as big as we have. All of us know how to use the equipment but we tend to have our separate favourites which encourages to work in sync better. Jax mainly acts as the producer for the pre-recorded tracks and for the sounds we use from the production softwares. Tempo is usually on the drum pads but surprise surprise can also play the drums, hence his name Tempo. Mod is usually in charge of looping and playing melodies whether thats on guitar, piano or a synth and i'll be on vocals and have my own synth. As i mentioned earlier my aim is to tour the UK, for this we would need roadies, vans to transport the equipment in, promotion (through social media and flyers etc..) and to have venues at the ready. We have our own pages on social media so promotion via social media shouldn't be an issue, the main issue is transporting our equipment, and having the venue prepared for us. This is what the funding would go towards we have already got quotes from roadies to achieve this and spoke to many venues across the country who would be willing to cater for us. We're also thinking of adding merchandise to our personal website and putting up a stand at the venues we'll perform at.

We're hoping for a funding of £10,000 we have planned budgets for each step of the way and think this plan will succeed.

4 Track Review

Persian Pugs

"Persian Pugs" was inspired from the chords from Persian Rugs by Party Next Door. I played the chords in and decided it was a unique sound that I liked. I wanted to remake the sound of the chords into my own sound, I used the EX 24 synth to conjure a sound that I liked. This version of Persian Pugs is missing some content as its an older version, I used this bounce so the development can be heard and my ideas for this track are clear. Throughout the development I plan to use panning techniques on only one bar of the synths, which will be when the synth is split into thirds. I plan to have Erykah sing on this track to finish it off.

https://soundcloud.com/milesedwardsfrancis/miles-persian-pugs

Tupac Do For Love Remix

Using the bass line from Tupac Do for love, I wanted to make a remix mainly formed of audio, we recorded. In the studio we recorded a fretless bass guitar and drums, I plan to add trumpets and synths to the track from recording, I already have midi versions of them both. But using the D.I box will make the track more interesting and completely recorded by me and peers. I added the synth to keep interest there rather than just the drum and bass line. The same with the trumpet.
https://soundcloud.com/milesedwardsfrancis/tupac-do-for-love-remix

What Do You Want

Starting off this track I wanted to start it with a kind of dark ambient feeling, with the drums changing after each bar, my plans for this track are to have a almost RnB/ drum & bass, bass line, to keep the ambient feeling, and add more interest to the song. With this track I was thinking of mainly keeping it midi and using most of my midi skills. The synth was made using alchemy, but the drums was just one of logics instruments.
https://soundcloud.com/milesedwardsfrancis/what-do-you-want

Crazy Tazy

Using the track from last year, I added a subby synth intro that fades and in and increases tempo as it goes along, and kept the vocals, with this song I planned to have Erykah sing on it to add to the vocals. Furthermore I would like to possibly replace the drum beats with a beat from ultra beat and improve the synth using an ESP or EX 24. I could possibly add chords to help develop the song.
https://soundcloud.com/milesedwardsfrancis/crazy-tazy

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