more electronica

something i made in a day and a bit. i got a cd-r of samples of pretty much every drum machine ever invented, so that was my starting point. i made a bunch of them into drum kits for ableton live and thought i'd start with an oberheim dmz, so that's what the drum sounds are made with. yesterday, i was listening to public enemy's 'fear of a black planet', one of the all time truly great albums. it's so heavy and dense, so that's where the rhythm ideas started from - kind of a heavy funk/break kind of thing. then i got a track from a great new album from a group called emptyset, which is kind of noisy, ambient techno with dark bass - very minimal. i cut a handful of samples from it and then set them to trigger by playing them on a keyboard. i added a twisted up miles davis snippet (from his 'bitches brew' album) which kind of adds excited texture to the whole thing (it was a bit clinical without it and not quite heavy enough). another miles blast was put in later with a delay to accent the rhythm. it was originally a straight 4/4 thing, but then i added an extra beat per cycle, and moved the kicks and snares around a bit, so now it's actually in 9/4, while the emptyset bits stay in 4/4. this (hopefully) gives the whole thing a disoriented feeling.

the track is called 9/4-120 - the time signature and bpm of the track. of course, play it loud with lots of bottom end.