Going forth from my production reading into session and further research into artists I decided to have a production session due to the studios being free on Tuesday and to attempt a few sampling techniques.
I wanted to explore the idea of free form beat making, committing to the production phase and against this idea of commodification. What is clean in production and palatable?
Since I’m always crate-digging and exploring music, I had a few saved for sampling to flip and change into a beat or instrumental. This specific song from KPM library was made to use in film and cinema.
I added it into my SP404MK2, started chopping the machine, and figured out different loops and sections or “fragments” I wanted to take and reposition.
I also had some drum sounds from previous beat-making sessions during the summer so I quickly began chopping, resampling, structuring and positioning the drum sounds.
After layering some drums and adding FX, I started jamming the samples with my drum kit. I found it really sounded nice, at first I just looped the sounds and after that, I added more creative ideas instead of loops and re-performing the sounds as an instrument. I then created a loop and a small intro section with the loop playing slowly and being time-stretched. Here is the outcome on SoundCloud.
I’m curious to see where this progresses, I do find this was a blind session but I really enjoy the instrumental and my process.