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snares are illegal (022220_140bpm)

By royb0t on February 23, 2020 7:24 pm

About a year ago, I went out to some warehouse party where it was just nonstop slammin techno. The headliner was the Function (David Sumner), who started at 1am and I can't believe I stayed until like 4:30am before wandering to the El and riding it home as the sun rose. Anyway, it was a neat albeit different experience outside of my usual stompin' grounds. I was pretty impressed with how minimal the sounds pallets were, while maintaining clean and balanced frequencies with these humongous four-to-the-floor basskicks constantly slamming. I also noticed none of the tracks really made use of snares. As if they were illegal (oh, there's the title). I took a whirl at this, it's not quite as crisp given the time limitations but it was fun. Also I couldn't help myself though. Had to add an acid bassline. Most of the percussion was created in Maschine.


Don't hit this tempo too often, usually I'm around 100-130bpm or 175bpm+. A fun tidbit, FLStudio for years had the default template upon open set to 140bpm. I'm certain this is why dubstep was always around that tempo. But yeah, I prefer techno instead. Definitely a driving and unending source of fun. Might hafta do some more this year I think!

Can always rely on you for some pumpin' goodness. Love this!

Works great with me, who needs a snare when he can put noise with a delay instead. wink . very cool exiting track.

Cool track man. I'm loving this bass line, its get so squelchy in the 2nd half.  Good to see another Chicago dude here as well.

Slammin! Great energy from just the kick. Really cool challenge and excellent results.

great groove!  Hell yeah!  Filtered squelchy madness!   Killllaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Excellent production and I couldn't help but dance along when that acid line kicked in.
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Oops and this is why I'm not a gifxpert like da ipa! DOH!

I think i got it!?

There was a surprising number of acid submissions this week, and this one was my favorite.

dark and nasty smile

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