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RENT037 - groovy but seriously tripped out disco >>>

Taking the disco megamix to its illogical conclusion - proper hands on approach to production, constantly swapping out the beat for a new one while raising the tempo from 100bpm to 120bpm... I often spend a good half an hour of a DJ set working my way up from slower stuff to something more like 'dance' tempos, but sometimes I wish I could get there sooner. I didn't want this to just be a simple speed-up DJ tool though, so this is actually one of the most complex tunes I've ever made - the K-hole breakdown took a lot of work to get right and the mixdown was crazy - each 16 bar loop is made from scratch so it was a bit like mixing 16 different tunes instead of one.

If u know my music u know I don't really touch out-and-out disco - I usually find it too happy, too cheesy, too safe. But I love certain elements - the claps especially and all the organic percussion. And I'm a recent convert to the Linn kick drum! Cuts through the mix so nicely. So I took all the bits I love, came up with a John Swing / Maghreban / maybe even Commodo style bassline, and went mad with the tweaky FX, lots of little ghosts in the machine. A good headphone experience as well as a club thing. For the DJ / producer geeks - first 32 bars are at 100bpm, until the first mini breakdown at 38 seconds - then it steadily speeds up until after the mad breakdown at 4:34 where it stays at 120bpm on the dot so u can mix out of it.

So something a bit different again - hope u enjoy it >>>


100-120bpm

Record label from Mosca. One-off tracks that don't necessarily fit on an EP or LP. Any genre, any style, any tempo. Club stuff as well as home-listening / experimental gear.