I know know, it's a house staple, but I don't usually like to make those disco cut up kind of tracks. You know the type, a few disco loops, drums + some filtering, call it your own track, profit. It's been done to death by producers much better than me. Don't take me wrong, I love that stuff. I just don't want to be known as a disco editor, I prefer to write my own harmonies and melodies. I might use little snippets of samples here and there, but almost never as the main body of the track. Partly because of some kind of a principle, partly because I love and respect quality disco almost as much as I do house and I don't want to ruin good disco songs with unnecessary edits that add nothing of value to the original.
However, since it's such a common way to make house I decided to give it a shot anyway. I have a bunch of nice disco samples on my hard drive, sampled from my personal vinyl collection. I occasionally go through them, trying to find inspiration. Usually I don't find it, but this time seemed to be different. One of those disco samples (I won't be naming any names, I'll just say it's a very well known disco group, not something particularly obscure) had a little something that caught my ear. I thought what the heck, let's cut up the sample to shorter loops, apply some filtering, add some drums, call it a track and profit. 2 hours later, I had something nice cooking and not that many hours after that I had this finished track:
I rather like it, even if I'm the first to admit that it's just a disco edit, not an original composition. Maybe I'll try to use disco loops in a subtler way in the future, this one is quite extravagant. This seems to be a common occurrence for me, the first time I try something new the results are quite blatant, only later I learn to use the new producing methods and techniques in subtler ways.
Anyways, cheesy and cheeky or not, I learned some new tricks once again, tricks that will surely be very useful in the future.
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