Éclat Part 84

Avatar eclatcrew | April 5, 2022

This week we are extremely excited to introduce our first outside Guest Curator for the year, Mustelide!

Mustelide is the singer, songwriter and producer Natallia Kunitskaya born in Belarus.

Since moving from Minsk to Berlin she has been exploring the borders between Eastern and Western Europe. Stylistically, she draws on avant-pop, experimental electronica and dance music, carefully creating a flow out of analogue synthesizers, field recordings and vocals. By transferring the sound signatures of different regions and eras along with sonically disparate material into forms both strange and familiar, Mustelide creates from them a backdrop of electro beats, synthesizer passages of synthpop music from the 80s and 90s and her vocals while playing it all live on hardware during performances.

Check out Mustelide on:

Youtube // Facebook // Instagram // Spotify // Bandcamp

This is what Mustelide has to say about this evening's challenge!

"In my production experience it happens sometimes that I don't know how to start a new track, when I come with a blank mind to the studio. In this case I always have a project in Ableton, where I collect a lot of small ideas in the form of loops or vocal parts, inspiring synthesizer sounds, any little sketches, that sound catchy and hooky, which can bring me to making a whole new track. That's why I decided to prepare samples for our challenge in the form of this ideas pack.

I used my favorite synthesizer Prophet 8 DSI, recorded vocal parts in Ukrainian (my dad's language), and random field recordings as some basic elements, which always inspire my work flow. Every element of this pack could be a starting point so I hope it will work that way for the participants of tonight's challenge."

So today's challenge is to use at least 2 samples from the pack to make a track of 2 minutes or less. You can change and cut them and use any effects, you can record and add any additional parts.

Click here to download the sample pack from Google Drive or from WeTransfer here.

When you are finished, please upload your track to this Google Drive Link!

Here's what we made!

 

 

Find some tips on sampling in different DAWs below:

Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler
Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler
How To Create & Process A Kick Drum From Any Sound
How To Create & Process A Kick Drum From Any Sound
Novation // Start Making – House
Novation // Start Making – House
Creating a Kick Drum from Scratch (Logic Pro X)
Creating a Kick Drum from Scratch (Logic Pro X)
Advanced Sample Flipping with Andrew Huang
Advanced Sample Flipping with Andrew Huang
Creative ways of using Loops & Samples in your productions
Creative ways of using Loops & Samples in your productions
Logic: Chop and Reinvent Loops in the EXS 24
Logic: Chop and Reinvent Loops in the EXS 24
Ableton: Making Vocal Chops
Ableton: Making Vocal Chops
Ableton: Adjust Pitch in Simpler using Pitch Envelope
Ableton: Adjust Pitch in Simpler using Pitch Envelope
Drum Hacks from Maike Watson
Drum Hacks from Maike Watson
How to make a Vocal Chop track
How to make a Vocal Chop track
Ableton: Make your samples sustain in Sampler
Ableton: Make your samples sustain in Sampler
Bwana: Creative Ways of using Vocals
Bwana: Creative Ways of using Vocals
Novation // Start Making – Techno
Novation // Start Making – Techno
Bitwig: Creative Ways of Manipulating Audio
Bitwig: Creative Ways of Manipulating Audio
Ableton: Using Reslicing as a Creative Sampling Tool
Ableton: Using Reslicing as a Creative Sampling Tool
Bwana: Sampling from Youtube
Bwana: Sampling from Youtube
Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”
Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”
Ableton: 10 Tips To Help You Master Live’s Drum Rack
Ableton: 10 Tips To Help You Master Live’s Drum Rack

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Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler
How To Create & Process A Kick Drum From Any Sound
Novation // Start Making – House
Creating a Kick Drum from Scratch (Logic Pro X)
Advanced Sample Flipping with Andrew Huang
Creative ways of using Loops & Samples in your productions
Logic: Chop and Reinvent Loops in the EXS 24
Ableton: Making Vocal Chops
Ableton: Adjust Pitch in Simpler using Pitch Envelope
Drum Hacks from Maike Watson
How to make a Vocal Chop track
Ableton: Make your samples sustain in Sampler
Bwana: Creative Ways of using Vocals
Novation // Start Making – Techno
Bitwig: Creative Ways of Manipulating Audio
Ableton: Using Reslicing as a Creative Sampling Tool
Bwana: Sampling from Youtube
Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”
Ableton: 10 Tips To Help You Master Live’s Drum Rack
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