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Mad Robot

By Perplex On on January 19, 2014 11:25 am

Finding inspiration as well as motivation was very tough this week. After 3 days without any real ideas i started to feel kind of mad at myself. So i came to the idea, why not take this anger and mangle some sounds really bad. So i took some field recordings, cut them into pieces and squeezed the shit out of them.

The result is kind of half-baked and not very well composed nor mixed, but it is how i felt this week. And therefore maybe a means to an end.

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that is really awesome. how can we keep up with you??

Love the melody/harmonies! What technique/tools do you use for the mangling/cutting up?

Sub Delay wrote:

Love the melody/harmonies! What technique/tools do you use for the mangling/cutting up?

thanks a lot, man! Mangling/cutting in this case was mainly done with 2 steps: 1. Big portion of beat programming, manual cutting, resampling, stretching and experimenting with different warping techniques in Ableton Live. 2. Adding some extra spice with Sugar Byte's Turnado. Cheers!

Ah cool, I'm always looking for ways to do beat mangling in a more sort of casual/live-ish way that doesn't require too much fiddling around, but I guess to get really good results the answer is still "roll up your sleeves and get in there!" smile

Great track!

dude you rock even when you're mad

i quite liked the intro the glitch stuff surprised me to it worked

Wonderful drum construction

Also surprised after the intro, great enry, one of my favorites so far i think!

Ahhhhh I love the drums in this. I echo sub delay's sentiments that sometimes we shouldn't try and cut corners and just get stuck in like you obviously have!

Get fuckin angrier hahaha great stuff dude

damn that beat is sick and love that synth sound, suhweet track!

Well done. All the glitchy stuff sounds great. Keep it up

i dunno, I think it is quite good... sometimes tracks are like that, you just throw them together and they come out awesome.

Hectic track dude! The messy and sometimes cluttered vibe really adds to it.

man, really dig it! the edits are sweet and fucking LOVE the glitched out synth work at the end

dang this is nuts

All excellent tracks.
Love the sound design, so much going on and all of it so crisp.

I hope you keep getting mad at yourself, the results are fantastic

Deep stuff and sick beats

I love this heart

super!

Amazing rhythms and sounds.

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