This is my twenty-eighth entry in The Producers Corner "sample challenge", where everyone is given the same source music from which to sample, and the results are diverse and entertaining. The source this week was twofold; a few songs from Tadashi Yamauchi's score for "Gamera", AND Dominique Guiot's 1978 new age guitar/synth album "L'Univers De La Mer". I went in and chopped and re-arranged four guitar loops from the Gamera score, then found and edited and combined and layered eight more loops from the Guiot album. I wanted to keep things fairly simple and background, because my main focus would be a long vocal sample from Martin Luther King's "The Other America" speech, which he delivered at Stanford University on April 4th, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated by a white supremacist. So I dunno, other that putting MLK in there, I wasn't feeling this too much; it's all too droney, too one-note. But that's just kind of what the source material was like. If I had more than two minutes to play with, I'd break out all the different loops into their own spotlight parts, but instead I have four or five layered and playing over each other all at once. Then I added my own drum programming, bassline, keyboards, and called it a day. I feel like there's too much on my mind to get this to be anything other than what it is. I did actually leave it longer than two minutes, as there's no way I was going to either speed my beat up to 98 BPM or cut Dr. King short. I hope you find something to enjoy about the final product, and please everyone stay safe and healthy out there!!!
* This came in 3rd place.
