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Name: 'FUCKING ROTTERS! EVERYWHERE!', said Papa -demo-
Artist: Damn That Rotter!
Album: The Day the Rotters Came Home
Genre: Rotterdam Techno, Gabber

This is a taste-bud tantelizer of a side project i've been meaning to kick start for a while, under a new alias. But first, lets get some context;
I love Rotterdamn Techno and Gabber. Specifically, the way Shinji Hosoe, AKA Sampling Masters MEGA/Megaten, handles the genre's. I shan't spam this post with video's, but i HIGHLY reccomend you look up the following songs before you download this one: 'Rotterdamn Nation, 'yzarc ruoY', 'Return of Rottel-Gem', 'Rotteldam', 'Primitive recycling', and the work he did with Ayako Saso on the 'overdrive hell' series. It's the energetic craziness of the genre that grabs me.

Though i use the J-MACHine moniker for a number of my works using a variaty of genres, i've wanted to use different aliases for a couple of others, not as a means of distancing myself from the work, but just as a way of identifying that the work tagged under this Alias is highly different from the stuff i do under another. Henceforth why i started planning out the 'Damn That Rotter!' side project, which'll cover works under these genre's specifically.

This track here's one i've only just started work on, and is more or less me just getting a feel at working with this sort of style, but i wanted to give you guys a taste of what i'll be cooking up alongside my main work. The finished version hopefully won't be too long away.

Enjoy!

Still a W.I.P, but i've got the main elements of the track down. I just need to extend it a bit, and put a bit more meat on it's bones with some more riffs and melody. I was going for a chillout vibe similar to a mixture between Akira Yamaoka's 'Silent Hill' works, or Masafumi Takada's 'Killer7' stuff, with a little phase-1-Gorillaz flavor on top.
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Enjoy!

Glad you both liked it!

@ Knowlesy - I will at some point post some guidelines and examples of some of the samples i mix together through the sample editor. But i've got to stress that in this song, i didn't mix any samples together- this was before i started doing that. At least, i'm about 90% sure it is.  If it is, then this is just a case of a number of samples being played at the same time. As for making my stuff sound 'pro', i wouldn't know where to start, because i guess that just sort of... Happens. I want to say 'it comes naturally', but thats a touch egotistical. >>
Glad you liked the beat, too! What can i say, i have a love for shuffled beats/percussion and breakbeats. Whilst i've got nothing against more 'practical' beats like a club beat or a 16 beat rock beat, i think breaks/shuffled beats make things sound more interesting, or tense.

@ Fear 2 Stop - I can't remember if it's guitar SFX or just general SFX i'm afraid, F2S. But i'm glad you liked the track!
Unrelated, but that avatar of yours is fucking hilarious. Cracks me everytime i see it.

Because i don't have enough on my plate (OBVIOUSLY), i've been in the process of kickstarting an older work and nearly-completely rebuilding it from the ground up. I would have started this later, but i happened to get a huge attack of inspiration for all aspects of the project from a number of different sources, the main source of inspiration being the barrage of insanity Goichi Suda- AKA Suda51, AKA 'Japan's Answer to David Lynch, only further derranged and harbouring an obsession with Masked Wrestlers'- released on the world back in 2005, after several delays, that we know as the direly-in-need-of-more-love Killer7. Not even just the game or the story, but the soundtrack helped inspire me, and eventually led to the creation of... This beast.

It's really only the result of a couple'a hours work, plus about 15 minutes of final tweaks and edits, and it's short- purposfully so, it's supposed to be cutscene music- but i'm proud of it regardless. I wanted something that continually kept building up, only to climax and have a short outro/ending that was relativly calm and quiet, and i wanted the whole thing too... I guess the best way i can summerize it is that i wanted it to feel like listening too it made you imagine you were completely drugged up and as high as possible, and you're watching the people around you change and mutate into horrible creatures. Hopefully i've pulled it off correctly.

Enjoy!

I dunno if i posted this here before, but i did wanna share it, as i found it on an old Rewritable CD with an old demo for a track i never got the chance to finish, which was from 2008 (i may upload that later, for a laugh). It's a track i did back in 2009 on Music 2002, when i still had it installed (>> i really must reinstall it), for an older project thats hopefully going to be set back in motion... at some point, god willing.
This was one of my first forays into doing darker flavored works. I called this strict 'ambient' at the time, but its more a Noise/Shuffled Rhythm track with heavy Dark Ambient flavorings. ... And the use of a Rave pad. For some reason. It fits, but god knows what possed me to use it at the time. It was before my 'mixing samples together to create new sounds' days, i can tell that much by listening too it. Overall, i'm still happy with it, and it is still a good track, but i could probably do better.

Ah, thank you, Knowlesy!

Cheers! Yeah, i quite like the use of all the extra percussion, as well. And actually, it's the first time i've mixed a zap sample with a kick drum. I might do it more often though.

@ Knowlesy: Heh, thank you! It's actually a snare that pitch bends up, and a kick that pitch bends down, but with the kick i purposfully added so many different snare samples together so that the loop glitched out, making it sound... Kinda like a firework. And as Zodiac pointed out, the snare kinda sounds like rapidly faster-paced footsteps. I think the bass is actually a combination of the two samples that play the lead chords, put played on low octave levels (2, i think). You can just barely hear the sample that's got Data Loop mixed into it, but the sample thats got Majestic looped into it is barely noticable.

@ Zodiac: Cheers, man! Glad all the little sounds and effects left a good impression on ya!

Thanks a ton, Droppin'! Glad you liked it!

And cheers to you as well, Eddy. Glad my mad use of Zap's lately is putting people of.

If i could get out of the habit of starting a song, getting so far into it, then hitting a mental block that takes forever to go away, then more of my stuff would be finished. (And i'd have more room on my memory cards...)
Still, glad you like it so far, mate!

Nice integration of library riffs, and a real cool sounding Sort-Of-Breakbeat featuring that heavy drum. All mixed together with the usual AudioGhost sequenced-melody-and-bass goodness. About the only thing that doesn't feel quite like it fits are the vocals, i have to be honest. But, even then, it doesn't really spoil it for me; Vocals aside, this is probably one of my favorites from you, man.

This is an old track, but i still love listening too it, man. It's seriously good stuff.

Definately one of my faves from you as well, man. Great stuff. Sounds proper pro.

Ah, trademark sound cropping up again, AudioGhost. Very nice.

You still still hear the ZoDiaCMaSSaCrE feel on this track, even if it's an entirely different genre. It's dark, quite 'tech' sounding... Still a nice little track, though.

I'm sad to say, i'm not too familier with the original, but i do like your take on it regardless. Especially the integration of the Library riffs.

Original mix: Lovin' the sequenced melody here. Again, real relaxing. Argh, i'm running out of things to say i haven't already said!

Free Of Viruses mix: Proper oldskool House vibe comming off of this one. Another nice little headnodder.

Search & Destroy The Spybots mix: My favorite of the three. It's got the most 'high tech' feel of the three, to me.

Seriously, you could very easlily make a videogame OST out of a lot of your work, going by what i've heard so far. This track is no different, and is just as fantastic.

Apparently, i can't NOT listen to a track of yours and get a videogame-y vibe. Love this one. Especially the main melody. That sqelchy, tech-y pad is fucking awesome.

No. 1: Yeah, i can totally feel the Bemani-vibe on this one. Could very easily see it in a Beatmania game, or as a Stepmania SM File.

No. 2: I love the drum loop on this one. A very solid track overall.

No. 3: This one really sounds like it could've been a Boss theme in a SHUMP game from the mid-to-late 90s. Fucking NICE.

No. 4: Ah ha ha, recognise that drumloop. Again, another really solid track.