Being way out of touch and not having any idea what gabber was, I took a crash course. Turns out to be good ol’ hardcore techno! Can’t say it ever did much for me, but that’s probably just an age thing. Our own https://soundcloud.com/lityk has even been generous enough to use some of my sounds in his work, like this one: https://soundcloud.com/lityk/dronebrute and an earlier one which even came out on vinyl! https://www.discogs.com/release/8227918-Lityk-Feat-Tuonela-3-Kotti-Telepath-Subsonic-002
Anyway, many of the tracks I came across had some fascinating dynamics. I picked this one as a sound source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8aTYJVMyw&list=PLwt1yl0k-dTevOoOXJaEOKna3WjTumUHz&index=16
ie Kesj & Donut - Total confusionz
and fed it into my trusty outdated ambient v.3 software.
And this, with some multi-tracking and tonal tweaking, was the result. For me, it’s ambient but still has elements of the brutal power of the original. And just 1 real beat in 5 minutes!
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The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre.
Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.
Gabber and ambient music seem like polar opposites. Gabber is typified by a constant distorted kick drum pummelling you at upwards of 200bpm. Ambient, on the other hand, can be deeply immersive or barely noticeable. This project asks the question: is “gabber ambient” possible?
Step 1: Consider what makes gabber gabber and what makes ambient ambient. Where is there crossover?
Step 2: Make a track that could be construed as “gabba ambient.”
Step 3: You’re probably going to want to delete it. Try not to. Save and upload.
More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
