welp matty this might be my favorite thing ever.  it all started when i stumbled on a song i never heard.  Pathway to glory (1973).  what a jam - cutting the loop was a one and done - i took the first thing i grabbed and never looked back. Al Garth just sawing that fiddle, Michael Omartian shining through on piano.  it was love at first listen.  after i set some drums to it i heard the Bulls on Parade verses  in my brain so i checked and  yeah the bpms were almost identical and  the key was close enough.  I pitched the mesina tune down to match the vocal sample.  from there it was on.  Thanks for the suggestion to use the bad guy speech.  I thought it wasnt obsure enough but you were right- dont matter if its been done before, Its my turn now.
I thought the verses turned out pretty good.  at first I had the 808s doing a one note bass line.  spent a lot of time changing that.  still not 100% on those but im happy with a lot of it so...  
that drop happened naturally and  i cant believe i pulled it off.  ive always stuggled with drops and  this one just happened- heres how- 
first cuts had the chorus just pasted on to the same sample thats been going the whole time - it was flat- it lacked the energy it deserved - i bussed most of the tracks to an aux track and  hit it with a delay called pulse groove from the stock delay designer - this created a pretty cool sounding build - kept the vocals going, used some mutes, hit the aux track with another delay and   added the deep tremelo plugin to make that kill switch sound (what up tom morello) and then pulled everything out and dropped back in with a huge wobbly synth bass bomb.  
it gets a bit loose after the first drop and  then theres like another mini one after it.
the main sample groove comes back only now with bongos.  I bring Zack back to repeat the burning books line, while i funk it out a little.  
it tapers off to just the sample, then a new beat is dropped and  the sample gets run through step Fx's Lo Fi tremelo setting - then i automate the fuck out of the whole thing to glitch it out. i found a funky bass line for that (prolly ditch that tbh)  I like the dark 2 note bass vamp that comes next much better and will prolly just use that.  I bring al back to finish his thoughts.
when the beat comes back, ive reversed the bass part and  ran that through the step sequencer to get that dubby bass line. yeah im in love.

Bulls on a pathway

adolescence

trying to get the vocals timed right... help me out...

Bulls on a pathway

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