DnB/Jungle Battle #5: Library Music

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Thanks so much to @Symian for suggesting this month’s challenge—Library Music.

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AKA production music. Background music. Incidental music. Monday Night Football. SpongeBob Squarepants. Ren & Stimpy. DOOM. The Roots. The sounds of the airwaves. The sounds of the 20th century.

This time we’re digging into the KPM label:

  • Post a track from the KPM Music library (or a favorite use of one) in the thread.
  • Use a sample from the thread to make a drum & bass or jungle track.
  • You cannot use a sample from your own post!
  • Keep it under 6 minutes!
    *Send me a WAV/AIFF/FLAC by End of Day
    Sunday, October 26th!!!

(Oh! and if anyone has an idea for future battles, plea se send me a note!)

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Attention Junglist Massive—new Battle announced above!

@malus_mons
@maxwellthen
@dhunterrr
@alexleigh83
@leckerbass
@proskynesis
@mlin
@monquixote
@Musement
@pandanaut

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Note: You can also search through the KPM site itself.

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Love that people are getting into posting battles again!

It’s the only thing that gets my lazy backside making tracks.

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Okay I’ll kick off here’s a couple of personal favourites…

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Hell yeah! love library music battles!

This whole album has great synths layered with some galactic brass:

also @KingDuppy , I got my CD in the mail, thank you! now I need to find a CD player lol

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Ooohwee that’s a good one… :wink:

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Here are a couple to have a play with

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Nice idea, the KPM Library is full of great tracks to sample.
I choose this for you all: A man alone.

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@KingDuppy Great idea.

I like this track…hopefully you can do something with it. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Good idea.

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Here’s one for y’all. Never listened to the KPM library before, lotta good stuff here!

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Are you ready for some bongos?

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Another one, for reals this time.

How’s everyone’s beats coming? I finally got started working on something last night.

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I’m in the wall of sound phase at the moment, got a solid foundation, been playing with my levels and stuff for an hour or so today, probs start arranging tomorrow and start throwing some ideas around…

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I’m a very uncreative phase at the moment. Feeling guilty I don’t / can’t / won’t contribute. But I’m watching and listening to all the stuff in these battle threads. I’ll be more active, this just needs to pass tho.

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I got something but it needs more. Sampled from a second posted track. Hope this weekend to get the juices flowing.

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Okay, so I’ve been messing around with some of the tracks in the thread and I’m running up against a problem. It’s one I have a lot working in this genre space, so may as well turn it into a teaching moment if y’all will humor me.

I’ve got some good patterns going with my samples, but none are anywhere near up to a Drum & Bass or Jungle tempo. Whenever I try to bring them up past 140 or so they break apart. Or more like mush together.

So I started working backwards a bit—typing in a simple two step pattern in the sequencer and starting with that. But then I have trouble getting the sample to fit in the pocket I’ve created. I have to push them too high and mousey/clippy one way, or so slow/low the other way that they become incoherent

Any ideas? Am I just doing a bad job at sample selection?

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Go for 140bpm, try slicing the samples; f.i. when it’s chords, spread them in the beat and put a delay behind them? Make them even shorter and filter them like a dub stab.
Go the other way: Try to make a drone out of them, maybe some granular fx, or paulstretch.
Or replace a sliced drumloop with short slices of the samples.
Search inside the samples you choose with 140bpm in your mind.

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Well the amen break is already around 140 bpm so it’s pretty fast to start with.

I love KPM! Hope I have the time to put something together.

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