This was recored in 2014. At some time I had bought a Korg Volca Beats drum machine. This is a cool little drum machine but it only has one output. Pretty soon after it was released people were putting out instructions on the internet on how to modify these little machines to provide multiple outputs. Pretty soon I had taken a soldering iron to my drum machine. The mods mostly worked but the bass drum which I had liked a lot before the mods now sounded a bit off. I still wanted to make a track with my slightly broken drum machine so I hooked up the individual sounds via a small mixer and started recording. The final track is built around a stock Ableton breakbeat. All other sounds are either from the drum machine or a guitar, all sampled looped and modified further. The ‘arrangement’ was mostly performed in one go as a live mix with a few tweaks.
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