Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Deltron

Well... I can't say I'm a fan of "Event 2", but this one is decent.




While we're on the topic of Deltron, I have to note that I made a discovery that forced me to reconsider the supposed genius of Dan The Automator. Dig the opening track of the first Deltron album.




Pretty astonishing beats, right? Ah, but consider the main source of the sampled music.




Automator essentially rearranged chunks of the song, increased the speed, and called it a day. This isn't to say that "3030" doesn't improve on the original  — in fact, the changes show careful thought and taste — but is does indicate that Automator wasn't the musical visionary I had supposed thwn I was under the illusion that he, Del and Kid Koala built that song from scratch, or at most discrete samples from a wide number of sources.


On a similar note, here's the primary source of the music behind "Positive Contact".