.....RAW NUX.....
Well I don't have a Pocket Operator, so first on the agenda was downloading some samples. Fortunately TE themselves provided three or four aif files on their soundcloud - sorted!
I initially started by making a remix of Kraftwerk's Calculator song (can't remember the title - but you know... "I am the operator of my pocket calculator") But it just felt a little obvious and (more importantly) I really wasn't feeling the majority of the PO sounds I'd grabbed.
[EDIT: I've since been back through the PO samples and found that I actually like a ton of them!]
To refresh myself I abandoned the battle for a while and just started messing about. I was using the string model engine and also the sampled waveform that I got from pushing cwo and punch into self oscillation (a simple sine, toy organ sound). From there I started getting a Rza vibe and so I chucked on a beat using some drums I'd sampled from an old soul record. It started to sound OK but something was missing...
That's when I stumbled across one of the PO samples that I'd chopped in the drum sampler earlier. I was staggered that I'd not noticed just how amazing the kick and snare was. I mean that's a really punchy kick - solid without being overbearing, and the snare is just neck snappingly crisp!
From there I layered the PO Kick and snare, started to tweak things, added my own cuts (sampled from Wu-Tang's ODB RIP) and then began looking for an acapella to show off the loop in a proper context.
Fortunately I stumbled across this Primo and Bumpy Knuckles joint [B.A.P] and it was only 1 bpm off my track, so very easy to match up.
It's not really a full track (since when do I enter complete tracks?) so more of an extended loop / showcase kind of thing; however I reserve the rights to make some edits and make a proper track if I get time before the battle closes :)
PS I also used Reason's RV7000 to create some of the weirder reverse reverb bits. I wanted to give some of the ODB stuff a sort of ghostly vibe, as if he was spitting rawness from beyond. Hope you enjoy :)
https://soundcloud.com/hellooperator-1/raw-nux
I realise I didn't use much PO, but then again it's a simple track and there's not a hell of a lot there in total. IMO the track only came to life once I'd layered in those PO drums, so I feel that this is a legit POperator composition, or at least OP1 feat. PO-12, lol. Damn, I kind of want a pocket operator.
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