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R3wind....More like Fast Forward! By Janet Dominy Innovative...cutting edge...ahead of his time These things and more are the ways that people have attempted to describe the musical style of the artist known as Ric Dominy aka R3wind. At a young age this gifted musician was showing his true colors. He was a classically trained guitar player, and managed to self teach himself over 13 different musical instruments, many if not most of them string instruments. This education, though something for fun and a hobby to keep him “off the street”, would prove to be invaluable to his future as an artist and producer. Growing up poor in a small town, Ric was no stranger to the kind of angst and pain that is deeply rooted in the heart of any artist. He lived a life of poverty and despair, sleeping on the floor for most of his life and working hard for everything that came his way. It was this hard work that shaped his character and made him the person that he is today. His musical roots were in rock and jazz, but he also always had a healthy respect for hip hop culture and R&B. This mixture of influences has made Ric’s music a different experience altogether. His taste is eclectic and this makes his style one of a kind. There are no cookie cutters in art as far as Ric is concerned. It has been his goal from the beginning to have a style like no other. He strives constantly to not just be another Neuro-funk track in a DJ set, but to be recognized for his true talent as an artist and songwriter. His style has changed as his knowledge deepens, and this scene evolves. Revolutionary as he may be, he also maintains a strong sense of trend and where the music is going. So when you hear the name R3wind, just know that you aren’t about to trip down memory lane, rather you are about to be catapulted into a new era of one of a kind style that is purely Ric Dominy. |
| Q & A with R3wind Q:Do you use loops? A: Yes I do. I will almost always chop them. I will always reprocess the drums with EQ's, Filters, Distortion, and Compression. The only time that I will not rechop the loops is if it a remix. Q:Do you make your own drums? A: I like to take samples from different "kits" and mix and match. Q:Do you use loops to make your basslines? A: Hell naw dawg. I do use samples or maybe the rhythm from a loop but NEVER will I just use a loop. Q:How long have you been involved with drum and bass? A: Well, from the the first time i heard "Brown Paper Bag" Q:Do you like happy hardcore? A: I came up when Happy Hardcore and Hardcore was very big in the dance music clubs. If I was to turn my back on it and say that it never had any sway in my taste that would be untrue. Q:Do you like techno? A: Umm yes but only REAL TECHNO... this is the def from the wiki. Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from Chicago House, electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. Following the initial success of Detroit Techno as a musical culture — at the very least on a regional level — an expanded and related subset of genres in the 1990s emerged globally. Q:Why don't you try using loops??!! A: I started doing computer based music production in ACID 2.0... I rest my case. Q:Why do you make drum and bass? A: It can be so many things. Dark and weird or jazzy and uplifting. The songwriter can choose the mood of the song. The only real rule is it needs to be from 160 to 190 BPM. Q:Why do you sound like such a dick. A: You talkin' to me? I will be over here plotting your downfall. Q:Would you ever like to collaborate with other artists? A: I think that it would be great. I have played in bands in the past. I would really like to have a live PA band that mixed Rock, Hip Hop, and DnB. Q:When is the next time we can expect another track to be released? A: Well I hope that it will be very soon. I am working with some ideas and I hope the have them together in a week or so. Once I get the main ideas for the track together I work realy fast. It will be done about one day after that. Then post-production takes about one or two weeks. Q:How are you going to do that? A: I like to work in Reason the most. Although the new Fruity Loops seems like it would be fun to make a track in. |
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