I sliced Roofhare’s Fantastique Plastique track into 3 distinct sections and used them to form the high percussion throughout the track. The first slice features most prominently, and was doubled and panned left and right, and then set out of time by a few milliseconds to give a slight echo character in the left and right channels. The second and third slices were altered in pitch. The third slice features at the very end, and was thrown through a slow, low to high filter sweep. I used Camel Audio’s Alchemy for the detuned kick drum, the hip-hop kit and for the bass. Izotope’s Iris was used for the thumb piano and organ, and G-Force’s M-Tron Pro was used for the Mellotron strings. Finally, the robotic number countdown came from a speaking crosswalk in New Paltz, NY and there are a few gong sounds that I altered in pitch and reversed to provide a build in the section transitions. Both the crosswalk and gong were recorded with an iPhone 5 microphone.
French producer drapes hypnotic, ’90s-inspired house grooves in dubby, disco-inspired textures on a simple, yet, understatedly sumptuous EP. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 4, 2023