Clash and trash
By laguna on January 25, 2026 11:59 pm
This one's pretty weird, actually. It came to life because I was reorganizing my studio, making room for some records. I remembered I had some unwanted / discarded vinyl occupying precious space.
I've been sampling from a bunch of records from the late 90s and early 2000s. Mostly techno and a little bit of house. But these are not "my flavour" of the genre : these were hard house and relentless tribal techno. Mauro Picotto, Marco Bailey, Dave Clarke, Ben Simms and the like. They were on my personal limit of harshness, monotony and/or speed.
128 to 136 bpm stuff... Thump! thump! thump! thump!
They are mostly thift shop finds, bought in a lot for really little money, like 2 or 4 for one euro. Some had mismatched sleeves or white labels, so I didn't exactly knew what I was getting. I usually know many store managers and they give me extra special price if they want to clean the inventory. The stores I used to visit weren't in any trendy part of town, so not much demand for dj vinyl. I've found a lot of good stuff, but also lots of "meh" tracks and some real stinkers also.
However, getting rid of a record for me it's almost like thinking of burning books. So... I tried to make a track from all those records that are not really "my thing".
I think the track is really really disjointed. The break came from some early mediocre acid-housy track circa 88-91 and gave me something other than thundering drums and basslines. The "melody" ... well, it was a somewhat cool loop at... 138 beats per minute?
Maybe this one sounds a little bit awful, with lots of mids and crackle. I use one beat to modulate the next so I can "make room" in the mix... Is this trash? Does it sound absolutely disjointed?
Anyway... I ran out of time and my upload just went through within the last minute. Weeklybeats style smile
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I love the soft sound of the breaks in the first sections; maybe the people who swear that vinyl makes things sound better are onto something. But the bass groove in the section from around ~2:20 onward sounds like it's from the future!
love that rhythm in the part that starts at 2:22 ish !