I’m in!
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I’ve been away all week so will have to skip this one (I know if I haven’t gotten something at least started I won’t get anything finished in time).
Will be great to hear the entries when they are in, enjoy everyone!
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One of my old bands was introduced to this track by our longtime studio engineer. We used to watch this on our session days to have a laugh and wake up in the mornings while we had our coffees! We’d get all amped up in this weird wild way!
As it is, I’m not going to make a submission this time around. I’m about to dig into my s2400 this weekend to start learning. Then I’m on vacation starting next weekend so I just won’t have the time. I know if I try I’ll just end up drifting back to my MV and put my learning on the back burner!
Looking forward to hearing everyone’s beats though!
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Congrats on that. The S2400 is one of the few things that I can imagine spending that much money and waiting that long to get. It seems magical.
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New here, just got my Octatrack in the mail yesterday and can’t think of a better way to learn.
In!
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Welcome!
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man, when did sam elliott learn to play like that? haha… made me do a double take.
i love stuff like this. thanks for posting!
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I’m glad so many folks have joined this battle so far. I’ll close the sample submissions tomorrow at about 7am (PDT) in order to let anyone else in later time zones a chance to post a sample if they’d like. I can’t wait to see what everyone cooks up.
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Haha sounds like a good way to get started.
Very jealous of your s2400 by the way. I’ve been thinking about ordering one on a few occasions but then in the end I don’t because of the price, and the fact that I have an AR mk2 and should just focus on becoming a master on that machine…
It does seem like a perfect blend between the old (sound/workflow) and the new (sampling time, options) though… how does the sequencer compare to working with an elektron one?
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Sample submission is closed. Feel free to post your beat.
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huzzah! i’m on a plane for 6 hours, which is plenty of time to work on something or submit what’s already done. i can’t wait to hear what people cook up this time.
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Here goes my beat. I had so much fun making this that I changed my plans and made a decision to start building a full hip hop album.
@violentmeals Bukowski on being alone turned out to be the key to unlock this beat. Can’t believe I haven’t heard this one before as what he says could be my words exactly.
@rockpapergoat Vittorio Paltrinieri - Took the piano hit from this.
@DimensionsTomorrow - Sampled one of the kick + guitar hits from this one.
Anyways, let the beat speak for itself! (I have also a version with some sampled El-P lines which I can share after the competition is over) 
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My beat made on the digitakt :
I used samples from :
@Yabba Fire and ice - Main Sample
@rockpapergoat Mist and smoke - Little chop
And to stay in the battle theme i took vocal samples from :
@CCMP The beatles
@Sherelle Queen
Drums and bass are goldbaby samples.
I could not resist to add an acapella, so you will ear the voice of Planet Asia over the beat 
Can’t wait to ear your beats!
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dope! will have to listen to this more closely later (no noise canceling headphones on the plane), but i like the flow, structure, and sample choices here. it all works very well together. good stuff!
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damn, dude. this one bangs. i’d bump this with my buddy driving around in his mom’s 1991 camry, for sure. your stuff is aways so solid… just really classic sounding hip hop.
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Welcome to the forum! Welcome to the Battle!
What a killer selection for sample fodder…
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Haha!! Kalhor abides…
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man, much like last time, i’m going with the first beat i made. this uses the following samples:
- chops from @Dkstr’s my fair lady clip
- main drum loop is from bobby allen & the exceptions “soul chicken”
- a small snippet of hihat sequence from the kount
- vocals, guitar, bass, and percussion from miki nakasone " Yukiguni No Ko" Nakasone Miki - Yukiguni No Ko (1961) 仲å®æ ¹ç¾æ¨¹ - éªå½ã®å¨ - YouTube
arranged, EQed, applied effects, and such in ableton. this one came together pretty quickly. it just felt really fun while still kinda slamming. i hope you all like it. i may post up some of the others that almost made the cut. enjoy!
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Gonna have to sit this one out as I have a lot going on at the moment, but looking forward to hearing everyone’s tracks!
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Didn’t intend it to become a BB remix, but these things occur, I guess.
Things I used:
- Some hihats, a kind of 2-bar breakdown riser that I filtered and the “flatline” vocal from the excellent Miscellaneous Flux track @Doug put up
- some really messed up strings that were originally from the Demis Roussos track @Yabba dropped
- bookended it all with the @ViolentMeals Bukowski text
- the “ghastly” bit from My Fair Lady courtesy of @Dkstr
- kick drum thuds from Brigitte Fontaine thanks to @simonbradford
- obviously the bulk of the “Intergalactic” acapella from @Buska (but not the hook because I’m all about that 90s Vinyl Reanimators style
) - I did sample some of the Focus yodelling (thanks @Sleepyhead) but I ran it through Live’s Spectral Resonator and turned it into the robot noise at the end of every 4 bar segment
- and the open drone and closing segment is from the @drrumble submission that my keyboard can’t write, alas. I pitched it down an octave, chopped it, ran it through SP1200 style grit and then double tracked it so I could highpass the strings and lowpass the bass dirge that I made in Sampler, looping a single hit to make a continuous tone
External stuff I used:
- Cherry Audio Realistic MG-1 for the bouncy bass
- random drum samples for the main drums (just searched the Live packs and layered up some hits together with Drumsynth parts to make them slap like I wanted them to)
I think that’s everything. Made in Live 11 on an ancient i5 laptop.
Shouts to everyone who got down!
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