PSFMer - Coffee Beans [Drumfunk] | Equinity 04: Immersion

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Part of the Equinity 04: Immersion compilation album! Download it for free on Bandcamp:

I have always wanted to have a go at drumfunk, while also adding a pony flavour to it. It's super enjoyable to chop up old soul and funk drum breaks and rearrange them to form your own composition. In this song I used two very popular breaks: Soul Pride and the Amen. The Soul Pride break, sampled from the song with the same name by James Brown has always captured my attention every time I hear it, regardless of how it has been changed up by various producers. It has this incredible groove, with lovely sounding ghost hits and tiny nuanced snare rolls. I took the sample and pitched it up quite a bit, then added some excitement on the top end to bring out a crispy, shimmery quality (especially in the snare). Then I did some transient processing to tighten up the drums a little, making them sound cleaner. And then there's the Amen Break, sampled off the song "Amen, Brother" on the B-side of a single by The Winstons. I've heard it flipped and rearranged in hundreds of different tracks (especially jungle) and none of them sounds exactly the same. Incredible, given that the drum break lasts for just about 7 seconds. I used SliceX to chop up both of the breaks and then rearranged them using the midi, where each slice is assigned to a note. Learned loads about properly moving groups of consecutive slices together such that the rearranged break sounds continuous. I actually had an attempt on a jungle/drumfunk-ish idea last year, but it ended up being a practice session on chopping and properly processing the drum breaks. Still, there's still loads more to learn.

Huge thanks to the staff at Equinity (Greyfade, Power Note, Budzy, InklingBear and Jalmaan), whose hard work made this wonderful album possible. Also many thanks to Makenshi and the Cider Party staff for putting this song up on the Cider Party channel!!

The Horse Music Herald staff have also done a long and detailed writeup about Equinity 04, and I highly recommend you give it a read if you are wanting to dive into the album but don't know where to start:

Artwork by myself