NGHH'11 - Sample Battle

This is my sample battle submission. First let me say the sample pack was a big surprise this year. Sufjan Stevens in the pack?! Awesome. Good deal Red.

Now gather 'round children, I'm gonna break down what I did.

The tempo is 95 bpm.

The intro is Yann Tiersen - Dust Lane reversed. I added reverb, some delay, and heavy phasing to the chops.

I chopped the drums from John Zorn - Larkspur. Each chop got it's own track so I could eq each kick, hat, and snare. The pitch of the snare was dropped about an octave to give it a 'dusty' 'grainy' sound.

For the bassline, I took the guitar from Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies. I chopped and rearranged it. I also doubled the track and filtered off the high end to emphasize the bass on the second 'backup' track.

I used the piano from the same Sufjan song, it pops up a few times through the beat.

For more oomph, you know, when the drumtrack gets kicked into overdrive (about 1 minute in), I chopped up the kicks and snare from Mother Mother - Body of Years.

The synth-like up down thingy that comes in around 1:10 is John Zorn - Pacifica sped up and chopped. I added a resonance filter to muffle it and give it the snthy sound. This can be heard again at 2:30 when the bass goes away.

The other snyth-like thing that comes in at 1:20 is Antibalas - I.C.E.. It also has a resonance filter and then a LFO. The pitch was changed too.

At 2:51 the sample used in the intro is used again. But at 3:01 the sample is reversed back to it's original playback and eq'd to emphasize the high-end, like a transistor radio. From there the two sample chops alternate between bars and the outro is just more Yann Tiersen - Dust Lane reversed and stretched out.

The drums during the outro just have heavy delay and reverb, they are the same drum chops from before.

Uh, that's about it.