Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno
The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.
Option 1: Record some 10BPM techno.

For this weeks project I chose option 1. 
I used Logic Pro (it goes all the way down to 5BPM), two instances of SonicVibes Microtonic, time stretched samples and various synth plugins. Trying to make something this slow was interesting, the space between things is more apparent and made the sound selection more important, the space needed "space". Its only 16 bars long but runs for just over 7 minutes.... It's quite the dirge, with a few moments that reminded me of a certain soundtrack.....

APOB - 10BPM (A Clockwork Lozenge) [disquiet0541]

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10BPMTECHNO - disquiet0541

The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.

There are two ways to do this project.

Option 1: Record some 10BPM techno.

Option 2: Record what you imagine it would sound like to attend a club event of 10BPM techno, including crowd noise.

How slow can you go - disquiet0541

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Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno
The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.

When I saw the mail for Disquiet Junto Project 0541, I also saw a mail from Samplescience, announcing free 303 Loops. As I am no techno musician, I thought of being lazy and just used some of these 303 loops to play around. Strechted from 120 to 10 bpm within reaper they became very melodious and ambientic. I added some percussion and a kickdrum to fullfill what I think are minimum genre conventions (there was a "riser" sound which I left out). This may not be techno at all, but I like the bleeping 303s and the resulting track very much. A nice project!

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Credits

303 Samples
https://www.samplescience.info/2022/05/abstract-303.html

Track image based on
https://unsplash.com/photos/m41k1lTzjVM

Party crowd ambience mostly
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_2104797/sounds/346683/

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10bpm Techno [disquiet0541]

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Techno at 10bpm is a challenge, how do you get a rhythmic pulse with such a sparse event grid. Rather than using the drum track to provide the thrum I used slow modulation and feedback to fill the space between trigger hits.
 I used Logic to send a 10bpm clock to my modular rig. I had it trigger a dfam, beads in wavetable mode and a soft pop 2 and then fed the outputs through delay and reverb to fill the space between the thuds.
Rather than dancing in a club to this I recommend being strapped on a gurney in front of a huge subwoofer and let those frequencies ripple through you


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10bpm (disquiet0541)

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #541: 10BPM Techno. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0541-10bpm-techno/55213

Direction and Rate of Fastest Increase [disquiet0541]

Scappa Flow (True version)

Dark Ambient Music inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos cult. Be scared and enjoy!

CTHULHU MYTHOS: OUT OF BODY

Vuil - Benthic [LP]

Written & Produced - Xavier Ortega

Mixing & Mastering - Dumbchildish

Flute assist on track #5 - Austin Beard

Cover Art - Amalcrossing

Origin - Houston, TX

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