These Uncertain Times (TPC Sample Challenge #142)

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This is my twenty-seventh entry in The Producers Corner "sample challenge", where everyone is given the same source music from which to sample, and the results are diverse and entertaining. The source this week was Sven Grünberg's 1981 album "Hingus", an almost completely structureless wash of new wave synthesizers. Really there's not much there; it's an entire album of what sound like extended intros to much better Tomita or Vangelis songs. It truly was a "challenge" this week, to sift through and find anything of value. Finally I found ONE piece of music that could legitimately be described as a chord progression, looped just that one sample up, added some reggae accents, drum programming, piano, bassline, organ, and some audio recorded on the streets of Brooklyn yesterday. The end result is an upbeat bouncy reggae synth sound, which I would have thought impossible to pull off until finding that snippet at the end of the album. So for the first time in these challenges, I've got an instrumental that uses only one solitary sample from the source! I don't even know who I am anymore... The mix on this isn't great, but I'm going with it because I was up most of the night finishing this up so I could post it before everyone else finds that one lonely phrase of melody on an otherwise featureless sea of what sounds like a cat sleeping on the keys of a synthesizer. I hope you enjoy the result, and please everyone stay safe and healthy out there!!!

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