Tempo mutilation

[wektor]

I forgot about this tune for years then woke up a few months ago with it looping endlessly inside of my head

 

[Corpsey]

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



I can see why. It's chipmunk hell.

 

[Corpsey]

Mind you I guess that's a big element in a lot of hardcore and other even faster genres like juke.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[woops]

Mind you I guess that's a big element in a lot of hardcore and other even faster genres like juke.

As with so many things, it depends what drugs you're on.

 

[Corpsey]

MrBodyMassgeMachn (Uploader)
I once read that Richard D. James created some of his most uptempo songs by writing them at 33 1/3 RPM and then speeding them up to 45 to get the final product. It's no surprise, then, that so many of his songs sound just as good when they are slowed down or sped up.

 

[Corpsey]

And now AFX slowed down



Here's the man himself playing a slower version of vordhosbn live

 

[Corpsey]

As with so many things, it depends what drugs you're on.

you bring up a great point which is that i'm going to revisit a lot of these when i'm mangled and see if they blow my tiny mind

 

[Corpsey]

This sounds more pelvically funky than the normal speed


So does this


TOTO sounds sadder

 

[bassbeyondreason]

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.

Daniele Baldelli and the cosmic disco guys would play stuff at wild speeds, Depeche Mode at 33, Yellowman at 45:

I guess non-English-speaking audiences can tolerate more.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

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

 

[william_kent]

Time Cow - Glacial Dancehall

this is side B of the second in the "Glacial Dancehall" series ( 3 volumes so far )

haul
...
and
...
pull
...
up

 

[woops]

Is that another cassette release?

 

[version]

And now AFX slowed down



Here's the man himself playing a slower version of vordhosbn live

 

[william_kent]

Is that another cassette release?

yeah, afraid so. sold out as well. I bought the digital release on bandcamp ( and I never buy digital..err...except for the timecow live prog dancehall )

 

[version]

The digi's pay what you like on Bandcamp,

Glacial Dancehall 2, by Low Jack vs Time Cow

2 track album

bokeh-versions.com

 

[Corpsey]

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

Could you record a clip of them at that speed?

 

[Corpsey]

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



I can see why. It's chipmunk hell.

The quite obvious point occurs to me that a lot of electronic music (the sample based stuff, but also experimenting with oscillators etc.) is about speeding up and slowing and stretching and crushing sounds.

ANd ofc we all know the importance of DJs playing stuff "too fast" or "too slow" in genre birthing.

 

[woops]

And OFC varispeeding tape was used extensively by the beatles, gave rise to chorusing and phasing effects, that the mellotron sound comes from playing tape loops at different speeds a bit like the keygroups of later digital samplers, etc etc

 

[william_kent]

one of the big innovations of jungle was the "timestretch" vocal

it was a signature sound at one point

( well, maybe not "innovation" but certainly a prominent feature )