Cuts & Edits - Swamp Thing

This week I've been working on a different sort of challenge, inspired in part by cooking shows like "Chopped". I've been selecting certain records and trying to complete a remix loosely within 24 hours. Here's a photo of the stuff I was sampling from today. There's no guarantee that what made the setup photo ended up in today's track, but it's a good document of where my mind was in the process.

 

Today's track is kind of a shuffly swamp jazz funk sort of thing. It's at 100 bpm, like a lot of tracks I've done lately. I like working at that tempo, because tracks at that tempo can work in a wider range of playback tempos, and fit into downtempo and hip hop contexts more easily. There are a lot of areas with finer and more detailed edit work, and a lot of rhythmic interplay. There's a lot of restraint as well. When you listen to the piece, you'll feel as though you expect and big stomping hip hop beat, but it doesn't build to that; it lets the slowed down jazz the piece is in part made of set the pace and keep the live sound. Here, listen.