Tempo mutilation

[william_kent]

with a flick of my musical wrist:

Glacial Dancehall is the slowest dancehall mixtape ever heard. Culled from his private 7” archives, each side figures dancehall mutations, pitched and screwed by Jay Glass Dubs’ hardware acceleration.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Screwed (+reverb) drill this sounds demonic

I did a whole mix of this:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Could you record a clip of them at that speed?

Don't have records to hand but can excerpt the Spider Net from a mix:

Can't find a recording of the Venom, about 27 minutes into this there's A Guy Called Gerald - Nazinji-Zaka, followed by some Noize Creator breakcore record, both at 33:

 

[wektor]

Don't have records to hand but can excerpt the Spider Net from a mix:

Can't find a recording of the Venom, about 27 minutes into this there's A Guy Called Gerald - Nazinji-Zaka, followed by some Noize Creator breakcore record, both at 33:

wot a good fukin mix

 

[wektor]

just noticed the slowed mumdance x novelist tune in there, what a legend

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[thirdform]

Seems like slowing down is much more popular than speeding up.

chicago house, Apple, electro and a bit of grime at 150.

 

[thirdform]

This is what UK garage would sound like if it was invented in cornwall.

 

[thirdform]

Personally I find early jungle doesn't work so well slowed down, but techstep does. I've played these at 33 in mixes recently:

Correct, except for Enforcer - Damn Tuff Remix at 33+3. All time gnostic hoover hell.

Maybe even @WashYourHands can vibe with this tempo.

 

[IdleRich]

Seems like slowing down is much more popular than speeding up.



I can see why. It's chipmunk hell.

Sped up you get chipmunks everywhere, but slowed down means female vocals have been completely deleted from existence (unless you start with the Chipmunks or, I dunno, Yma Sumac or possibly Beejees I suppose).

 

[IdleRich]

The Belgian Popcorn scene (sort of their equivalent of Northern Soul, but based around couples-dancing to midtempo records) does a lot of speed-adjustment, e.g.

Always interested me that Belgium is known for New Beat and Popcorn, two dance scenes based around pitched down records.

 

[linebaugh]

Seems like slowing down is much more popular than speeding up.



I can see why. It's chipmunk hell.

I think zoomers prefer the speed up. Its the legacy of nightcore

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Could just change the tempo while preserving the pitch - it's 2021 and we have the technology!

 

[IdleRich]

Always interested me that Belgium is known for New Beat and Popcorn, two dance scenes based around pitched down records.

Though surely they didn't pitch that Wanda Jackson down that far? I thought if was often that they would play a 45 at 33 plus 8 and then they danced to it as a couple?

 

[IdleRich]

Could just change the tempo while preserving the pitch - it's 2021 and we have the technology!

Well this is useful I guess in terms of using a sample that is at a totally different speed, or mixing records together that are so far apart they would otherwise sound silly... but here Corpsey is asking about changing a tune into a new one with a different feel using the pitch adjuster, and this context this technology is the enemy. Or is it? I guess it might sound weird if you took.a deep voice vocal and made it really inhumanly fast, but still as deep as ever. I dunno, anyone ever done that?

 

[thirdform]

Could just change the tempo while preserving the pitch - it's 2021 and we have the technology!

No, because then you get aliasing if you attempt to retain the pitch above two semitones and it sounds all muddy.

 

[thirdform]

It's fine if you want to timestretch vocals or samples, but whole records the technology can't possibly do that yet.

 

[thirdform]

where are your dj sets @mixed_biscuits?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

where are your dj sets @mixed_biscuits?

I has them

I'll make one of differently speeded music

 

[mixed_biscuits]

where are your dj sets @mixed_biscuits?

Surprisingly listenable until I took a wrong turn and then started lashing out at the audience.

Tried to keep everything on the 30-300bpm sweet spot.