This is my twenty-fourth entry in The Producers Corner "sample challenge", where everyone is given the same source song from which to sample, and the results are diverse and entertaining. The source this week was a YouTube track called "Orchestral Groove (French Connection)", a mix of cool French instrumental songs compiled by The Soulparanos Show. It runs the gamut from smoky lounge to film soundtrack to disco pop, and at first nothing was jumping out at me. I think my problem was the way the whole thing was mixed together as if it's one long song, making it more difficult to pick out beginnings or endings where there might be some cool samples. It didn't help matters that Soulparanos peppered the mix with their own voiceover namedrops, so finally I just ended up Shazaming some of the tracks I was curious about, and downloaded those individual songs to work with. I kept things fairly simple this time, building around one loop with a nice descending bassline, layering in a few other heavily-edited samples from the source material and elsewhere, and then finishing it with lots of my own drum programming. I chose not to add keyboards or scratching this week, as I thought it might just muddy the whole thing up. I hope you enjoy the result, and please everyone be careful and stay healthy!!!
PS - after completing this instrumental, I used an altered version of the music on a remix for Imani Coppola's song, "One Of These Days": https://soundcloud.com/type4/imani-coppola-one-of-these-days-eufouria-remix
* This came in 2nd place.
