MoMa Ready is one of the brightest stars in Brooklyn’s thriving club community, whose contemporary spin on house, techno and breaks is revitalising the city’s dance music legacy and uniting a new generation of BIPOC DJs and producers. Born Wyatt Stevens, his HAUS of ALTR platform has mutated into one of the most dynamic young labels on the US club scene since starting life as a platform for skateboarding apparel, with recent compilations spotlighting fresh talents like Kush Jones and BEARCAT.

In addition to his own catalogue of razor-sharp genre explorations, the former skater and breakdancer has released multiple collaborations with AceMo under their AceMoMa moniker. A debut album, released in January under the alias Gallery S, billed itself as a “hidden room” for his “innermost thoughts, fears, and desires”.

Opening with a sultry deep house bassline and pads, Wyatt’s NI sketch demonstrates how to take a handful of simple sounds and rapidly form them into a cohesive musical moment. Kicks and hi-hats make a subtle entrance, shifting the tempo towards the dancefloor zone, before a syncopated snare completes the scene, with every element given plenty of breathing room.

“For this beat I was trying to get a feel for the tools. I normally work with samples and build presets using Ableton stock plug-ins, combined with a few third party VSTs. Using Kontrol allowed me to maintain my usual workflow while having access to a bunch of new sounds. 

“The first sound I used was a sample in Komplete Kontrol. In the miscellaneous synth tag I clicked around and found a really nice basic pad and played out a melody in the MIDI. Looking for texture I ended up opening Kontakt where I found Kinetic Treats and added some delay. I used Kontrol for the vocal stab swell too. All the drum sounds are from my personal sample folders, and the bassline was made using a preset I built in Ableton. To save my computer I recorded all of the audio on separate tracks and used the audio to arrange the sketch.

Sketches 058 - MoMA Ready

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