Tempo mutilation

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Was just listening to this 130 bpm version of 'This Way' by Skanna (off a 35th anniversary of cafe del mar comp)


Got me intrigued re: the possibility of 'screwed' jungle. Found this:


On first listen, this isn't as interesting as I hoped it would be. Perhaps not slowed down enough – or perhaps simply a fruitless avenue to wander down.

But maybe there are interesting avenues out there – slowed down or sped up, I don't GAF.
 

sufi

lala
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sufi

lala
there's a comfortingly analogue aspect to this - you get all compression artifacts popping out if you try and slow down an mp3 or a yt too far isnt it?
i dunno what sort of kit people use to make these versions?
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
vast improvement i think?
We definitely did a thread about these ultra-slowed down ones before


They're often hauntingly beautiful.

In that thread I think I talked about how when I used to make music on Reason I'd sometimes slow down clips of it on cool edit and would be amazed at what I'd "created".
 

catalog

Well-known member
Now you can type "how to screw a song" into YouTube and find a bevy of tutorials, most of which don't even acknowledge the act of DJing. One of the few that does is entitled "The correct way to Chop and Screw using Virtual DJ" and features the following comment exchange below the video: "This is gay do not use this method it is too complicated for something so easy."; "This is the method DJ Screw used when he invented screwed music." (It isn't and it isn't.) But that's progress, I guess. This technological democratization has inverted the delicate balance of craft and slop that defined the classic Screw tape-- too polished sonically, too unrefined in terms of performance.
 
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