All right, SOB for now after Call76 arrived and played a bit with the settings (note that I had to partially cover the status LED as being extremely strong):
Now I have read about this but now I see how it’s being done: there’s indeed a gain reduction status LED string but soldered onto the board itself and literally invisible when using the compressor, need to find someone to put a jumper patch and place it to a more visible part (e.g. top cover by drilling a hole for this) or just leave it as it is…
Sure, I will take the bait.
He is not saying it is hip hop, but hip hop influenced/based. If you wanted to be precise, you’d say:
Pop / K-pop track with strong hip-hop and trap influences.
A (euro)dance song with rap is not hip-hop either.
I loved the electronica era, which was for me: Underworld, Leftfield, Prodigy, Fluke, Bomb the Bass, Orbital, Apollo 440, etc. - all the stuff around ‘94-’96…
But the stuff in my dreams is really more like Meat Beat Manifesto, if they had done beats and distorted bass guitar with less BPM. Same dirty and overwhelming energy though.
I don’t know where it’s coming from, but I will make it my mission to create some tracks based on that sound with the AKAI!
(I have a stupid dream/nightmare earworm running around in my mind while writing this reply: MUST … GET … RID … OF … IT!!!).
The first track is already great to set the tone (Ba-dada-damm!)… and of course it has “Edge of No Control (Part 2)”, which was sampled by Consolidated for “Tool and Die” … an eternally true song, unfortunately!
