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You are right. And the sampled breaks came from funk tunes in the first place. Use different HH sounds (and or pitch) so as to play tiny little micromelodies (jungle does this a lot). be very subtle. I say this as somebody who has not succeeded in making a good 2step track, so don't listen to...

Aren't most garage producers old junglists? i certainly hear (or imagine hearing) lots of jungle influences in 2step.

Carl Craig, Televised Green Smoke James Ruskin, Connected Kenny Larkin, Track Mario Piu, Communication My all-time favourite example of this (call it metric ambiguity) is Diana Ross's "Upside Down". The Chorus doesn't kick in on the downbeat (or so it seems). Note sure what's going on...

Here is another text that discusses swing and related matters. I found it instructive.

I sometimes do this when composing classical music. Correcting the badly placed notes by hand is a hell of a lot of work, at least for somebody like me who's timing on the piano is terrible. I also think that dance music requires a stable pulse somewhere, even if its subtle. a soft hihat may...

The term swing is used in many different ways. Wikipedia says this: People sometimes mistakenly indicate swing rhythms by marking their scores with an indication that pairs of eighth notes should be treated as a quarter and an eighth in a triplet bracket. In actuality, swing rhythms range...

for the tracks i looked at. I'm sure there are many exceptions to this, that relate to 2step through some other family resemblance. why don't you check it yourself? Easy to do!

I've been thinking a lot about this recently and last night i decided to go to the bottom of the issue. i loaded some well-known 2-step tracks into a wave editor and worked out exactly what's going on regarding the placement of drum hits. it's quite simple really, two tricks that i had already...

I'm not sure about this. 2-step producers tend to be old junglists and their productions are based around lots of samples, and not high-tech trickery. anyway, compression is really a subtle way of altering dynamics. to be sure, if you crank up all parameters to the max, you'll get new audible...

I agree that this scene is a bit drawn out. in fact i went to see that film on a date, partly because it was billed as a "dark romantic comedy" without any hint of the graphic violence ... BAD IDEA! there's no real narrative necessity to go on with torturing, once the guy has the flashbacks...

That's very true. I always wonder if this is more a lucky accident or if whoever was in charge of the sound (can't remember who that was) is just very good. Are you jealous folks? ARE YOU JEALOUS FOLKS! ;)

Yeah, early 80s is all about FM and pulse width, but i want batches, plugins, samples VSTs ... i'm a lazy, sorry busy fellow you know! ;)

The maths he refers to is right. That is quite rare for a philosopher, and the reason I read him. His uses of mathematics are not mathematical but philosphical, hence it is not really appropriate to ask for his work to be checked by mathematicians. In some sense he uses a mathmatical language to...

I would not say they create complexity. They transform it.

Very impressive!

a 2-step drum kit sounds distinctive, that's true: bass drum with almost all bottom eq'ed out, snare & hats enveloped for maximal impulsiveness. The airyness and sense of space mentioned upthread. It would be easy to take a good 2-step pattern and let the drum computer use "soft rock sounds"...

All true. One ought to mention the role of delay as well. It gives the rhythm track that extra bounce and -- through its regularity -- a certain structure that allows other elements to go crazy. Of course the delay parameters can be fixed so as to give interesting and subtle syncopation/swing.

Of course, so what? In what sense is buying corn futures that mature in 3 years from the point of purchase a more irrational form of "gambling" than going to oxford studying law? Both rely on expectations about future benefits of the respective course of actions, i.e. on expectations about the...

a friend of mine, the best DJ i know, alas he has given up on making music, used to beatmatch incoming tunes on the off-beat or backbeat. With the right selection of tracks, this can be amazingly funky!

Why? There are different notions of values at work, leading to much confusion. The values of derivatives represent something like an average of the expectation about the future, e.g. future dividends of shares. Given that these future predictions are usually about the next 20 years, and given...