Roulette round 1
By ahhsumx on July 8, 2018 11:17 pm
This week I wanted to get back to samples, so I played a bit of rhythm roulette with my record bin. I pulled 3 records at random, and tried to sample from each to make a beat.
record 1: weather & water sound effects - https://www.discogs.com/Giuseppe-Coter-Burundi-Music-From-The-Heart-Of-Africa/release/1181307
record 2: burundi (music from africa) - https://www.discogs.com/Giuseppe-Coter-Burundi-Music-From-The-Heart-Of-Africa/release/1181307
record 3: watto sitta - https://www.discogs.com/Mandingo-Featuring-Foday-Musa-Suso-Watto-Sitta/release/1102537
Watto Sitta had all sorts of amazing sample material on it, and Burundi had a good bit of stuff that was useful as well. Weather/water I tried several chops of, but ultimately failed to include on the final beat unfortunately. In the process of digitally chopping a whole bunch of samples from Watto Sitta, I screwed up saving them all and ended up with nothing when I went to use them. So, I spent a 2nd day looking for just enough samples to create a beat with, and I still pulled the most from Watto Sitta, including the kick, snare, toms, and some percussions used in the beat. There are virtual instrument cymbals used, however. There is also a virtual instrument bass, and synth used (the chord played). The other "instruments" were created from Burundi samples (flute, string-like sounds, 'talking' strings).
I'd say I got pretty lucky in finding the drum pieces because that's pretty rare usually, and I quite like the weird "instruments" I was able to create from the Burundi chops. Ultimately a win in my book, though I'm disappointed I wasn't able to include something from all 3 records I pulled.
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