Broken Record

A sample based hiphop album created from vinyls found in charity shops and car-boot sales. Inspired by producers like Madlib and JDilla, I chopped and resampled records, playing them on an MPC before layering with synthesizers, drum machines and short vocal stabs.

The use of vintage equipment extended through to the mixing and mastering with the project being mixed using an SSL 948 delta mixing desk and mastered using a Manley Massive Passive stereo EQ and the SSL bus compressor.

The visuals, created using TouchDesigner show an audio spectrum for the album traced round into a circle. Rhythmic elements add dotted lines reminiscent of record grooves and the changes between tracks introduce gaps in the image leading to a final picture of a Broken Record.

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