Any techno DJs here with a passion for digital loops?
I’ve chopped up my music into 2-bar loops and uploaded them online.
Check it out: https://deutscheindustrieprodukte.de/katalog/
(Fun fact: There was no label called “Deutsche Industrie”—for reasons unknown. We changed that.)
I’ve got nearly 3,814 loops online. Each loop is 2 bars long at 130 BPM.
All produced “dawless”, 99,78% Elektron gear.
Many are of course similar, some even almost the same. Industrial production is the way to go!
…I’ve picked apart my last live acts.
(To make it Rekordbox-friendly, each loop repeats four times with a quarter-second of silence at the beginning and end.)
THE FIRST 3 TRACKS FROM EACH ALBUM ARE FREE.
IN THE MOOD FOR MORE TECHNO BUT BROKE? Hit me up, and I’ll send you a Dropbox link.
Here is why this is not at all appealing to me and I’m just speaking for myself here because maybe this approach is actually attractive to other people. It’s great that you’ve got so many different loops and so many different musical starting points to mix together but as someone who does not know the loops because he didn’t make them, it’s going to take me a long time just to go through these 3000 pieces and familiarize myself with them. It basically would be like playing with random bits of audio before I can go through that process, so I’m not really sure how this would be helpful for me as a DJ. The best DJs really know their material very very well and are able to craft longer stories with it.
That’s how I feel every time I drive from my humble town to Hardwax/Berlin to buy records.
I can really relate to that.
To be honest, I have to admit that I mixed the audio files afterwards.
It’s like a bucket of different screws, and you need a different bit for each screw.
If I’m using traktor I just loop while mixing … most tracks have very derivative structures so the loop points of each ‘unique sounding ‘ loop are often very obvious … I often find it easy to mix a track and loop it even when I’ve never heard it before ( I’m sure I’m not unique doing this )
I never save them off as unique samples … though traktor can store the loop if needed.
Passion, yes — yet I create my loops on the fly or beforehand in Rekordbox as part of prepping my sets.
Alternatively, I create live loops, alter loops + sequence loops on my SP-16.
And agree with what has been summarized by @maymind_trax , can’t see how going through such a vast amount of material out of musical context could add anything. Not sure how this approach could be fruitful for others though.
Octatrack 4-Track Mixtape
More precise:
4 tracks + neighbor, Faderfox PC12, NTS-3 kaoss pad, AH+FX
All sounds original from Digitakt, Digitone, Syntakt - May contain traces of AR, A4, E2S
