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quoted 9 lines From: sugatis@inreach.com (Sugatis & Co)> From: sugatis@inreach.com (Sugatis & Co)
> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:40:45 -0700
> Subject: Re: (idm) Amen breaks and Stuff.
>
> >Jungle is cutting breaks, but there are some who will add machines in the
> >mix or sample a self-programmed loop and chop that up.
>
> You can also use live drums that you yourself play and chop those up too.
> Isn't that what Square Puhser does?
I dunno. I've heard the breaks on his records before. I recognise his
normal sytle break and the one on the last track of Side 2 of Feed Me...
I think he triggers samples from his drumkit and sequences them
afterwards, but who knows.
PS have you read the RDJ text on the Squarepusher LP!
quoted 14 lines From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org>> From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:30:37 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Re: (idm) Amen brother
>
> I have not listened to almost any Jungle or Drum'n'Bass. I'm not familiar
> with the much-loved Plug 1 & 2. But I do understand the general idea. Is
> it common for programmers to cut up and break and paste it back together
> to make one new beat? Or do the programmers generally slice things up and
> piece them back together in numerous combinations?
>
> I often do the latter (though not really in a d'n'b context), however the
> most common complaint from others is the tracks are too complex and hard
> to follow with the beats and everything changing and shifting around all
> the time.
The latter is preferable in most jungle tunes now. The former endless
looped breakbeat style is what hardcore originally was.
Breaks lesson no1
1)Imagine the break as a string of letters ie
abcdefghijk
2)Cut the break up into bits ie
abcd
ef
ghi
jk
3)Assign each sub-break onto a key or set of keys on the sampler
4)Trigger samples in any order via MIDI sequencer to form different
break combinations
ie the original abcdefghijk
can become
efabcdejkjk
jkabcdghief
or any combination of the above cut ups in (2)
Ta da!
quoted 9 lines G >Also I was wondering if anyone has tried constructing d&b tracks by cutting> G >Also I was wondering if anyone has tried constructing d&b tracks by cutting
> G >up MIDI sequences as opposed to audio files? It seems like a cool way to do
> G >breakbeats either by deconstructing/rearranging pre-existing MIDI
> G >sequences and then assigning drum patches to the beats
>
> Anyone who does interesting Drum and Bass will be doing this anyway, not
> simply laying down breakbeats, but making new breaks with individual
> drum hit samples sequenced with Cubase/Logic etc. Of course, there's
> always LTJ Bukem to cock up this theory..
:-) I know exactly what you mean! Mr Lazybreak strikes again.
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quoted 3 lines Kind of funny>
> Kind of funny
> realizing that Ben Watt is actually doing jungle drum programming now.
Err, I think you'll find that their jungle stuff was actually written
by the excellent Spring Heel Jack and (sadly) not Ben Watt.
quoted 4 lines Likethemes (LM-003) is one of the highlights of 1995!> > Likethemes (LM-003) is one of the highlights of 1995!
> > Reishi is the sweetest idm track you've heard.
>
> I got Likethemes for UKP1.99 in a Virgin sale rack. Lucky me!!
Yeah, there were tons in Manchesters Virgin Megastore!
quoted 1 line For all those who like the art/b12/stasis/blackdog style of things.> For all those who like the art/b12/stasis/blackdog style of things.
Lush...