Can picture this track being played at Carnival events over here, Trini, Rio just got that vibe to it.

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For Lisbon’s batida master DJ Marfox, sketching is fundamental. His off-the-wall kuduro cuts are short, sharp shocks to the dancefloor – dense with quirky details but over in a flash. Those are just the ones that made it from his live sets onto record. “90% of my tracks are sketches,” he confirms. “I choose to keep them like that so I can pick and use them throughout a DJ set. When I feel that one is worth transforming into a full-blown track then I dedicate myself to the construction process, where I can change from a lot or just a few things or just leave it as it is and only add one or a few elements.”

But though he refers to them as sketches, Marfox’s prototypes are always bespoke creations, studded with unusual samples and irregular rhythms. He takes the same approach with his Sketch, customising every available contour and transforming samples beyond recognition. “I felt the need to make little edits in everything, from expansions, loops, samples – even the VST presets were tweaked to my own taste,” he explains, in order that the result would be “100% like the sound of Lisbon ghettos.”

NI products used: TRK 01, ABBEY ROAD 70S DRUMMER, MASSIVE X, LUCID MISSION, MODULAR ICONS, SIERRA GROVE

https://blog.native-instruments.com/sketches-dj-marfox/

Sketches 065 - DJ Marfox

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