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Drum & Bass (In response to a post in the Dance thread)
MilkmanDan:
--- Quote from: JLM ---In terms of rhythmic beat cutting, I'm much more interested in early photek (rings around saturn ftw) and Paradox, who both managed to do extraordinary things without resorting to the amen crutch.
--- End quote ---
Using the Amen is only a "crutch" if you're rubbish. However, my point is pretty much the same as yours, I like it when producers can rearrange a break into amazing beats, rather than just clicking boxes on a sequencer. That being said, seeing how many original, interesting beats can be created from the same original sample is part of what I like so much. Planet Mu put out a Remarc compilation a while back called Sound Murderer, and it's a perfect example of how many great ways you can edit an Amen.
My main gripe is that most Drum n Bass at the moment is doing precisly nothing exciting or original with the breaks, or not using any breaks at all!
KharBevNor:
Pretty much the only drum and bass-ish stuff I like is Curse of the Golden Vampire. Anyone know anything else up to that level of heavy insanity?
MilkmanDan:
By Alec Empire?
I haven't heard it, but assuming it's similar to his Bass Terror EP, there should be some stuff that would take your fancy about.
Tech Itch - Deus Excess and Vex'd - Lion VIP spring to mind, along with some releases on Renegade Hardware, Barcode and labels like that. Some Breakcore, but not the silly stuff like Shitmat. Epsilon has a fucking unsocial piece of work called Blood that would probobly hit the spot.
I'll put up some YSI links tomorrow if you want, but I'll have to record them off my records and then encode them to MP3 and that sort of thing. I can't be assed right now.
Shaft:
Many artists go up and sometimes beyond that level, but never bother to make a whole album/career of it, so it's not really worth mentioning.
You can do it yourself though.
Take any song you wish to alter.
Timestretch it to half the lengh so as to attain more speed, same pitch.
Whack a low-bit-rate filter and overdrive on it, yank the distortion level up full.
For hipster brownie points, stick a classic funk drum loop over the whole thing (preferably speeded and pitched up, distorted to unrecognisable levels.
Put some loud, violent vocals on it.
I have spent five minutes doing just this as an example. I used Maximo park's "The Night I Lost My Head". I've posted it on my Myspace because I don't know where else I can host it.
http://www.myspace.com/iheartickis
It's probably the best song ever.
KharBevNor:
Thanks for the recs. Don't bother with YSI, I should be able to get it off of DC, I know some hubs that will most likely carry it.
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