Re: Chop step?/Girl from Ipenema

Keef (aargh@erols.com)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:32:56 +0000


I haven't heard of any names associated with chopstep ... just
remixes of existing tracks. The only groove tracks that I know of
off the top of my head that aren't in 4 and could go in undoctored
are "Oobe" by The Orb, "Loosen The Clamp" by Cabaret Voltaire, and
"Thirteen Over For" by T Power.

I've got this weird-ass mix of it though ... I do know some of the
tracks, and they were heavily remixed ....

One was "Deep Blue C" by Unguided Lights, doctored so that it's
in 15 rather than in 8 .... another was n2o's "Funkhop" doctored to
be in 7. There was also this weird jungle stretch that went by so
fast and chopped all the stuff up so that there was really no
downbeat. It was just this extremely fast pulse .... amazing
sounding, and surprisingly danceable considering you couldn't count
1, 2, 3, 4 to it ..... It's also got 6's and 5's and all sorts of
little twisted things going on in there ...... the weird thing about
this mix was that it had this really muzaky lounge number in 7
planted in the middle of it, and it also featured a Boredoms (!)
number ..... really whacked out stuff .... I can make a RA file of
it if someone's got a place to put it .....

c'ya
keef