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The music filled the night air, the energy of the building electrified the dancers, but ...
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Discotheque
The music filled the night air, the energy of the building electrified the dancers, but the DJ was getting restless. After working at the same club for six month Nujabes was getting tired of playing the same redundant club beats that the crowd liked or whatever was at the top of the charts of that month. She wanted to do something different for the night, something exciting.
Looking around at the setup the club had for its DJ’s and the equipment that she brought in herself, Nujabes had two mixers with four vinyl record players connected to the club sound system. As the club rendition of No Air was playing throughout the club on one of the channel, Nujabes slowly turn up to the tempo to 120 beats per minutes, creating a good transition from one song to the next. It also gave Nujabes something to build a base beat upon.
Searching through of her samples Nujabes found a basic beat of base, hat, snare, hat to start off the song. Putting the beat on a constant loop, she then added a string base to the mix, No Ordinary Love by Chris Botti if she remembered correctly. The base riff was borderline porno music from what her friends told her; personally Nujabes felt that the base riff added a little bit of funk to the club atmosphere.
At this point people in the club dancers and patrons started to notice that this was not a normal song heard on the radio. A jazzy beat with a funky base line, not something you hear every day, but it was still enjoyable and danceable so people kept moving to the music.
After looping the two samples together Nujabes felt the need to jazz it up a bit more adding a jazz piano sample she had made at home. It uses simple cord and notes that went high up on the board. It created a biting sound in contrast to the low driving base riff and drum beat use. When added to the other two samples though the piano drew attention to itself in a nice, smooth, flowing way.
Seeing that all four of her record players being use, one with club rendition of pop songs and the other three with her samples looping over, Nujabes decide to personally play a solo. Pulling out her piccolo she just started free styling to her sample. Because of the higher frequency put off by the piccolo the sound was able to carry out to the back of the club. If anyone in the club did not notice the different style of music being played they did now.
Nujabes though, could care less about what was going around her though, she was two drawn into free styling a riff. When Nujabes finally stop free styling to the sample and slowed down the beat however, she finally notices the crowd in the club going wild. Apparently, they like the variety in music and ask for an encore.
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