That’s everyone right? Im gonna add it up now. Sorry for the delay, I’m a single dad… there’s a lot going on at the Malus Mons Home Studios
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Congrats to number 9!
- 1, 3, 3, 1 - 8
- 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1 - 16
- 2, 1 - 3
- 3, 3, 1 - 7
- 2, 3 - 5
- 2, 1 - 3
- 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2 - 22
- 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2 - 13
- 3, 3 - 6
- 1, 3 - 4
- 2, 1 - 3
Also, congrats to second and third, number 2 and number 10. Fantastic work!
edit: fixed.
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Congratulations @Yabba @surfacescan & @Looms!!!
Yabba my guy, this is becoming quite the regular occurrence 
Awesome job everyone!
I was track 6, did the whole thing in Ableton. I used a reversed kick and crash from Lonnie Smith’s “Spinning Wheel” for the intro, the rest was Joe Thomas’ “Feelings From Within” chops pitched up. I have been just using the demo version of Suite, I can use all the fun tools but can’t save, so it was just one session and I bounced it and couldn’t go back. This is not the best way to produce music. (However this is a great way to make samples for your hardware! Just freeze and flatten your tracks and then choose to not delete them when you quit or make a new set - Ableton Live Suite as a sound design tool for free 
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Looking forward to the next one and can’t wait to hear everybody’s breakdown if they feel like sharing. Thank you again for all your time and effort, as a whole these are really special collections of our art. Since we can’t have a pro account on SoundCloud (although c’mon @Elektron, hook us up 
) would be cool if we could some how make an archive of all this amazing work over the past few years
Peace. Love. Unity. and Having Fun!
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my bad I had transposed beat 10 and 2 everything is correct now, I recounted. The participants who won were the same though.
Dope stuff everyone, thanks for the fun!
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Congrats to Yabba!
I was 12. I mainly used some bits towards the end of that Crusaders song…about where the Latifah sample is. I also used the horn from the Cyrkle and some of the vocals from the beginning of Sunshowers.
I put the beat together on my Lofi 12. But I wound up sequencing everything from my Digitakt. Then I ran it through my SP just for the little cassette effect and the 303 vinyl compressor thing.
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I was #15. I made the beat when the battle was freshly announced and then never really finished it and almost didn’t submit it in time to be included lmao. Still had fun tho! Congrats to the winners! I hope everyone, winners and not, had fun participating 
Edit: Beat was made in Ableton, nothing too complicated. I actually programmed the kick and snare for the break instead of using a sample break. I dunno how other people are on this, but I tend to program trap drums and use full drum break loops for boom-bap stuff.
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Congrats (1nce Again!) to Yabba. Wicked stuff. Big ups everyone, brilliant listen this. Thanks @malus_mons for the great idea and hosting!
Mine was made in Ableton with some processing through the SP-16 and 404mk2. All of it was using the samples shared using a lot of stems through Serato Sample or Stemroller.
Drums chopped from Midnight Cowboy & Black Frost
Main sample from A message from the Inner City
Chops from Today when the main sample is filtered
Keyboard stab from Black Frost
Vocal from Sunshower
Frogs! During the intro and outro
Acapella from the mighty Phife Dawg - His name is mutty ranks
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Cheers everyone and well done again.
And thanks to @malus_mons for hosting and the great concept
For mine I used…
Crusaders- a message from the inner city for the main part.
I made the main part in Digitakt and sent it to Ableton where I put parts from Kleer- intimate connection over it.
By extreme luck I didn’t have to pitch it up or down it just fit key-wise (I think)
I also used the acapella from Midnight off midnight marauders.
I did use it all at first then decided to just use the chorus and a couple of other bits.
Drums were just non related one hits from my drum folders.
Also well done to @surfacescan & @looms
Hope one of you guys or both will do the honour of coming up with an idea and host the next one 
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@surfacescan, if you’re up for hosting that would be great! I’m really struggling with various life things at the moment. These battles have been a lovely bit of fun on the side of the not so fun stuff 
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Hey family - congratulations to everyone for getting their music posted up here for sharing. I really enjoyed making this beat.
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Sneakin in the back - literally. I used the Tom Scott & LA Express sneakin in the back, but I have a sneaky confession - I used a different version (1996) than the one that was posted (1974) completely by accident. By the time I realised the mistake, the beat was sounding too good so I just went for it. Better to ask for forgiveness later I reckon…
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Breakadawn De la soul I used the unreleased acapella. This is one of my favorite jams - I used to have a hip hop radio show in the 90s and I called it Breakadawn, and the intro segment used parts of this. As amazing as stem separation is, there is nothing like using the real vocal tracks when you can get em.
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De la soul explains sampling - youtube - I used a sample of Maseo describing his process for sampling and making beats from here
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animal sounds I the chimpanzees (laughing at Maseo’s joke about being sued) and then the whale sounds sped up and tremoloed to use as another guitar sound in my main hook. -
Drum break - Dr Lonnie Smith Spinning Wheel -
Scratching was done using Native Instruments Traktor using DVS on the acapella
My process is kind of new, I load the songs I want to play with into Traktor and I use this cool little midi box I have with 
16 arcade buttons on it - I drop a bunch of hotcues and use/work them like slices. Its helpful to have things in Traktor cause I can transpose keys, time stretch and more. Once I have some chops into something I like, I start capturing into my Digitakt and start (re)constructing my ideas, adding drums and more. Arranging and final mix all done on the Digitakt.
This time I learned to record the final mix through the Digitakt into another sound card for capture because the audio processing signals on the DT are amazing! I capture into Audacity. Previously I was just using the DT’s USB to capture the final mix and it was missing all that soul that the DT has.
@looms and @Yabba - I would be honoured to host the next battle. 
Thanks for the offer. I already have an idea - I will get to it and post something soon.
Peace and take care all
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@surfacescan
Cheers fella, looking forward to it
It would also be nice to know who did which beat in this battle that haven’t giving us a breakdown yet
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Awesome man, thank you! Sick track too by the way. The intro clip/idea was so good, not to mention the beat that followed 
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Congrats to the winners! High Quality.
My beat was beat 11.
The theme was: Does humor belong in Hip-Hop? (Inspired by Frank Zappa).
This beat did not start with chopped sampled chords but with a beat in my head that I then played on the 707 clavi-like part (inspired by a Pink Floyd bit), drums, bass. I wanted the beat to be the lead and not a chopped chord sequence as I did up till now. Made on MC-707. Imported on SP.
I took organstabs from You showed me by The Turtles, made them mono.
I took the trombone from:The Crusaders - A Message From The Inner City with stemseparation. Made a main riff in chromatic mode.
Took Rap from De La Soul Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey).
Upped the bpm to fit the vibe of the rap.
I came up with a very corny idea with the rap but changed that later on.
Filtered Ourthe river sound.
Took a moogish leadriff from Intimate Connection · Kleeer
Sliced up some hilarious Prince laughter c/q/ coughing.
Even added a Beatles bit.
Overindulged in SP’s Ko Da Ma.
Mixed in Cubase. Put clippers on the drumtracks. Not sure that was the right thing.
Bit of Ozone.
Enjoyed the result.
I promised to add my reactions to the ones that I could not give points, I enjoyed surfacescan and flipinfantile doing that. Feels a bit late now however:
Beat #1 Good drumwork, organic sound.
Beat #2 Sun showers, love the Fender Rhodes.
Beat #3 No pepperoni, extra cheese. Good sound selection.
Beat #4 Sample mangling glitchfest without loosing the beat. Intro / ending.
Beat #5 Plus for repeating Rap lines. Kick compressor pumping. Good groove.
Beat #7 Love the snare. Horns. Good sound. Genuine beat.
Beat #8 Up feeling beat, nice keys, synth-arp. Space. Sound.
Beat #12 Lofi with good dark depth.
Beat #13 Punchy 80’s beat, bass added to Nile’s guitar. Good sound.
Beat #14 Cool guitarriff, mooglike bass, special L-R kick effect.
Beat #15 Heavy beat ‘after the movie’, like the pitched vocals, good beat.
and thanks to @malus_mons for hosting this fine Battle.
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Thanks brother - the way your drums dropped into your track were 
- my wife said was voting for yours as #1 (after mine of course 
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This was an awesome battle, well deserved congrats to @Yabba, @surfacescan & @looms!
And thanks for hosting @malus_mons.
I was number 7! Used stemroller to get the acapella, and isolate instruments (bass/horns) after the creating and sequencing the chops (new trick I found out), that made it sound a lot cleaner (removed extra hihats etc)… patterns were sequenced on the mpc2000 using the sp404 the sample/audio engine, exported those loops to the octatrack to do the arrangement including the acapella. Samples I used were mostly obvious, but the kick was from @Doug’s submission.
Love to know who made what too, will the playlist be updated with who made what at some point @malus_mons?
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Congrats to the top 3 and also thanks @malus_mons for all the logistics
Mine was track 1 (the one after the intro!) and here are some brief notes:
- The main chops came from The Prophet (thanks @flipinfantile)
- The section A drums I took from the intro to Soul Makossa (thanks @jiffybox).
- Section B drums were from another break I have that I sliced up and jumbled - I switched between the two in the final section.
- For my “vocals”: I chopped some bits out of “Just Another Day” by Queen Latifah to make the arpeggiated melody and some transitionary stabs; I also sampled part of this youtube interview wih De La Soul talking about Native Toungues
- My nature sounds came from @malus_mons cicadas - they’re mostly only audible in the intro, as I basically used them in place of white noise in the background
In terms of production I was quite constrained on time and wanted to focus a lot more on the mix this time round. So, I chopped everything on the Push 3, pulled into Ableton and arranged from there. Most of the time was spent tweaking transitions/ flow and the mix to get things sitting right - especially trying to get the two breaks to match well enough.
Congrats again to everyone and looking forward to the next one.
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Track 3 was me.
4 bar loop from Jack McDuff
Crows
1 chord from blofeld w an lfo
Siren from Ohio Players
Some scratches from DeLa records
Vocals (Xtra cheese) from DeLa and Chaka Khan and jungle brothers (what u waiting for)
(Will explain further)
E: mostly done w digitakt, a bit of sample preparation in koala. Ran out of DT tracks so used octatrack for a few samples , (I’m an OT baby. Just figuring the basics) then did some compression from FMR RNC
E: the bass was the default BD from the DT
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Hey @everyone, I updated the playlist with your names!
edit: “!”
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