Woodlark 1 - innovative music project and the official home of f-step

Making F-step

Making F-step couldn't be easier and its simplicity makes a mockery of the status of the likes of Abel & Cane. However, their genius lay in the field of experimentation and innovation, which is very much the basis of this form of music. They've written the following especially for Woodlark 1:

1. The primary step for producing F-step is to abandon all of your previous assumptions and conceptions about music and to let yourself go into a new realm of musical appreciation. There is no point in progressing if you cannot get to this point in your mind.

2. Initially F-step was about a precise layering of the same beats 3/4 of a beat out from one another, but you'll soon realise this is difficult to achieve and not necessarily the most hardcore sound. So play around with this layering and vary the gap between beats until you have an F-step sound that you are happy with.

3. Once you have achieved the correct beat sound, you'll need to be able to reproduce this throughout ths song, but it is also worth playing around on top of the basic beats or with the beats themselves. The permutations are endless even with just one pair of matching records, and so F-step is rarely exactly the same, and in this lies much of its appeal.

4. But why stop there? F-step was born through innovation and, therefore, should progress in same way. By all means use our ideas as starting points, but don't stick to them strictly because in reality F-step has no boundaries.

Remember that in F-step you can fear nothing. There is no such thing as abad sound. Respect.

Abel & Cane