SP beat battle #149: Zappiness

skinny.b · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:03 pm

So I got off my ass a bit quicker than I thought I would! Here's a couple of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention classics and for drums i thought I'd go for that bastion of sample based music, the amen break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_JHAoqGBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haPsdmfNIW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQLk7NcpO4

Rules: Use at least one of the tunes, no outside drums. Outside bass allowed.

Gear: Use as much or as little as you like, it's not what you use, it's how you flip that shit!

Closing date for entries, lets say one week from now, so the 13th.

Have fun!

Chopperman · **Posted:** Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:02 am

Nice choices! B, if you want your beat on the Winner's Circle comp on bandcamp just send me the file or make it downloadable. Same goes for Tiredoriots and his winning beat.

Locksmith · **Posted:** Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:57 pm

Willie the Pimp! Hell yeah. I think that was actually one of the first songs I ever sampled haha. Zappa's my shit.

FreshSerfPro · **Posted:** Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:01 am

"Use any gear"

Just making sure - if I wanna track my sounds out from the SP through an external efx thingy to my multitrack and record multiple tracks and then mix it down for the end product - is that cool?

Sorry for the questions... DOPE samples! Congrats on the win!

skinny.b · **Posted:** Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:25 am

Chopperman wrote:

Nice choices! B, if you want your beat on the Winner's Circle comp on bandcamp just send me the file or make it downloadable. Same goes for Tiredoriots and his winning beat.

Sweet dude, I emailed ya, cheers!

Locksmith wrote:

Willie the Pimp! Hell yeah. I think that was actually one of the first songs I ever sampled haha. Zappa's my shit.

You know it man! Zappas the king!

FreshSerfPro wrote:

"Use any gear"

Just making sure - if I wanna track my sounds out from the SP through an external efx thingy to my multitrack and record multiple tracks and then mix it down for the end product - is that cool?

Sorry for the questions... DOPE samples! Congrats on the win!

No worries about questions dude. Yeah, use whatever you like, just stick to the samples and you're allowed outside bass . How you put it together is your choice man

gis_sweden · **Posted:** Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:38 pm

Am I the first to upload a submission!?...
Used all samples + external bass + SP-404
No external editing.
ZappingDeepDuzt
https://soundcloud.com/gis_sweden/zappi ... zt-spbb149

Happy Beat Making!

skinny.b · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:40 am

gis_sweden wrote:

Am I the first to upload a submission!?...
Used all samples + external bass + SP-404
No external editing.
ZappingDeepDuzt
https://soundcloud.com/gis_sweden/zappi ... zt-spbb149

Happy Beat Making!

Yeah dude, first one! Nice to hear the zappa tradition of fucking your head up continued in your beat man! :-)

TheDingo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:17 pm

This was all I could come up with, not feelin' it but I learned a lot!
This is my first beat battle entry but those were dope samples btw!
https://soundcloud.com/stapl/sp-battle-149

gis_sweden · **Posted:** Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:51 am

When I uploaded my contribution to this battle to soundcloud a strange thing happened. Before I even had one (1) play I had three (3) reposts from unknown users. Que?!
Random acting repost bots :?:

FreshSerfPro · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:33 am

So I envisioned a sort of elaborate electronic art piece for my entry and ended up with this other thing, oh well. Used a synth for the bass, everything else SP, samples mostly from the Mothers track. Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/freshserfpro/arc ... -spbtl-149

TheDingo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:02 am

Dope entries, I can't wait for the next battle

skinny.b · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:31 am

Just three entries so far, I'm thinking extend the submission date a bit, see what happens over the next few days :-)

ellaguru · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:16 pm

sp606
mc909 (sequenced bass)

i used a little portion of the second zappa's track and the "speedy" amen

...some influences for this track: ltj bukem, 4hero, foul play, squarepusher, goldie, dillinja, doc scott, photek, plug, roni size...
Oh, and the uk pirate radios from '92 to '95 with dj as: randall, dj trace, fabio, ellis d and dj crossfader...respect!

https://app.box.com/s/f2jj6atkl5y5jubxt8lw

skinny.b · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:36 pm

Damn ellaguru! Are you hiding a mouthful of gold teeth there?? Sweet metalheadz vibes, proper tune man!

L0HEESH · **Joined:** Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:35 am **Posts:** 83

here I microwaffered this shit

https://soundcloud.com/l0heesh/l0heesh-challenge-sp

I used a bell from that second 'mother of invention' thing and that amen break.
microsampler & 606 :lol:

zappa was banned for copyright

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