Bi-weekly record-diving sampling extravaganza | 38 | Commodores - Wonderland (Long Version)

That is a wicked beat and remix @aarb420. Proper hard minimal 90s flavours :fire:

Great shuffle and production @DJCHEMIE. Sounds very very good and crispy. Especially dig the repeating chanting vocal and snare/clap groove.

That’s a headphone treat @monquixote. I can hear casisdead on this :sunglasses:

I’ve started on something in Ableton but the new 4.04 firmware dropped today so my attentions are torn :wink:

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@looms hahaha it be like that sometimes :rofl: Thanks man :beers:

AIIITE! Looking forward to it man hopefully that firmware comes with some juicy new features :muscle:

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That’s so tight.

I think it might be my fav thing that you’ve done. It just all sits so nicely.

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@monquixote thank you man! Actually had a brief depression from not being able to transfer that file and then hearing you guys drop such massive songs didn’t help at all haha :beers:

Hopefully, that wasn’t what you were going through on your end @DJCHEMIE when trying to upload your banger!

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Have you considered GitHub hosting and something like Faircamp to wrap it up to a domain? I’m still needing to redo tracks but you can see an example of my process at doomwave.com

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I exported as wav and never thought about MP3. And I was like hey I spent two nights on this, if I can’t share it I am going to cry haha. Thanks to @monquixote that reminded me the obvious solution there.

@aarb420 I am listening to your track just now and even on my phone it really sounds great! You can hear all the details. Well done! It definitely has those 90s vibes and I think this song really inspired all of us here.

There is something interesting or magical about it, When you listen to the original. It sounds so simple yet there are a lot of deep elements there.

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Thanks! I realized it starts a little bit louder now that I listen to it on my phone. But I am a huge fan of repeating parts of vocals like that. I take parts of longer phrases, words or sometimes combine a few of those into one repeating dreamy thing…

@thermionic cool suggestion, and your site both looks and sounds great! Are you able to share media player links with Faircamp like soundcloud/bandcamp have their players?

@DJCHEMIE haha glad it worked out man :beers: Really wish I could do the original more justice, but like you said it’s just one of those inspiring p-p-p-premier productions. I was more excited about hearing a raw version of Supa Star because I’d never heard Melachi going off on the Klan, on-air! :rofl:

Knocked up another one this evening using exactly the same samples and the Polyend Tracker

The idea is it’s meant to be an undiscovered Super Mario Kart theme.

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@monquixote That’s awesome man you totally captured that theme! Another PT win, every element hits at just the right spot :ok_hand: Thank you for sharing, again! :beers:

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Hi, fun track to work on. Thanks for having this.
My track was done on SP 404 mk2. Added a synthbass, some leads, some drumsamples.
The mix is a realtime resample of the patterns I made.
A little Ozone in post.
I would like to get the separate audio in Cubase to make a better mix but that needs too much time.
Now I can listen to already posted tracks.
Cheers.

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@electricthing, those synth melodies at about 1:56 are sooooo good :fire: Lovely smooth track.

Couple of rough and (not) ready ones from me!


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Nice tight tracker sound.

DJCHEMIE; chill track

monquixote: Good sounding modern track, the riff with the stab sound was a variation from some of the riffs in the track?

Yeah everything was track samples.

Thanks, synthleads were played live; SP skipback works really nice for catching the good riff.

Your tracks are heavy. How much will you do? Get them smooth and ready? I think you will keep them rough.

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I meant your first track, Wonderland
(my post was not clear because I noticed later that two tracks are yours)
So Wonderland are only samples from Wonderland? Also the drums?

Thanks. Yeah I’ll probably not do anything else with them but maybe :slight_smile: The second one was trying out the new looper on the 404 so limited what I can do with that one!

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Yes everything is from the track.

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Nice.
And about Trackerland: Love how the drums turn out. Trackers have a certain sound that I like. Have only dabbled in Renoise.

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You guys are absolutely killing it with the beats, love the use of the vocals on these too.
I’ve not really felt like doing much lately, but you lot immediately made me want to make something :joy:

Nice sample selection @aarb420

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