Miles & Miles & Miles (TPC Sample Challenge #138) By Matt Reyes Of TYPE 4

This is my twenty-third entry in The Producers Corner "sample challenge", where everyone is given the same source song from which to sample, and the results are diverse and entertaining. The source this week was the Miles Davis album "Sketches Of Spain", which I have on CD and I think on vinyl somewhere but I didn't dig it up. I went looking for something funky and catchy, but my attention was almost immediately consumed by this short motif at the end of the opening adagio; a beautifully modern and emotionally evocative chord progression on what sound like French horns, with a trumpet solo fading in over them. I looped that and just couldn't get away from it, it became the foundation and identity of the song. I really didn't need much else, but just for variety's sake I tossed in a few other snippets from the source material, including a completely restructured loop for my middle bridge section. I added my own breakbeats and drum programming, bassline, keyboards to emphasize the chord structure of the original sample, and some scratching on top. With "Miles" in mind, I filtered in a very subtle doppler-shifted loop of The Who singing "miles and miles" ad infinitum. I also found a recording of Robert Frost reading his poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", which of course concludes with a famous line about miles, and panned every other line to try to keep the voice and music separate. Then I concluded the whole thing with a recording of Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball on the moon in 1971. I hope you enjoy the result, and please everyone be careful and stay healthy!!!