24 février 2024

TOPLAP 20 Years (w/ z0rg)

Grand Paris, France

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TOPLAP 20 Years

20 breaks, 4 beats - celebrating 20 years of creativity with z0rg.

Cookie Collective performance.

Tracklist

Café Tiède
Force Motrice
Café Glacé
Nuit Agitée
Permanence

~ BPM

120–160

# Tracks

nujazz ×2dnb ×1breaks ×1techno ×1120–160 BPM

01Cafe Tiede125 BPMnujazz

sample

"nujazz_keys125" # n "<56 56 57 56 58!4 59 59 56 59>"

Sampled nu-jazz piano keys driving the harmony

pattern

midiOn "^42" (<| "k k k <k <k*2 [k <k ~> k ~]>>")

Kick with evolving 4th-beat variation

effect

# crushbus 41 (range 12 4.5 "^53")

Gentle bitcrush on nujazz bass sample

technique

chop 8 $ loopAt 2 $ "nujazz_keys125"

Live-recorded jazz keys chopped for real-time slicing

structure

setcps(125/60/4)

125 BPM, FMRhodes1 arpeggiated chords, h2ogmcp clap

src: live/midi/nova/nujazz/cafe_tiede.tidal

02Force Motrice125 BPMdnb

sample

"nujazz_bass125:1"

Nu-jazz bass sample chopped and sliced

pattern

note ("[g@2 ~!4 <f ~ as5 c6>]" - 12)

FMRhodes1 lead with sparse intervals

effect

# crushbus 71 (range 12 3.4 "^55")

Bitcrush on giorgio_syn synth

technique

midiOn "^58" (off 0.125 id . rev)

Reversed Rhodes with micro-offset echo-before-attack

structure

setcps (125/60/4)

125 BPM, cbow cello on d11, risers on d10, jungle_vocals on d9

src: live/midi/nova/dnb/force_motrice.tidal

03Cafe Glace120 BPMnujazz

sample

"nujazz_keys120" # n (slow 4 "<5 6 7 8>")

Piano samples rotating through 4 voicings

pattern

midiOn "^57" (mask "t(4,8)")

Euclidean bass mask on nujazz_bass120:4

effect

# crushbus 51 (range 16 6.4 "^54")

Wide-range bitcrush on keys

technique

"meth_bass" # n "<10!3 [<10 11> 11] 9!24>" $ loopAt 0.25

Glitchy meth_bass at 4x speed for rhythmic noise

structure

setcps(120/60/4)

120 BPM, double jungle_breaks on d7+d8

src: live/midi/nova/nujazz/cafe_glace.tidal

04Nuit Agitee160 BPMbreaks

sample

"bass_commodore:7"

Commodore bass stretched over 8 cycles with granular processing

pattern

note (scale "gameboy" ("<1(3,8) [1(3,8), <~ [~!7 2]>] 0(3,8) <0!3 -2>(3,8)>"))

Custom gameboy scale on harpsichord2

effect

# lesliebus 43 (range 0 2 "^29")

Leslie speaker on Commodore bass

technique

loopAt 8 $ chop 64 $ "bass_commodore:7"

Extreme granular: 64 chops over 8-cycle loop

structure

setcps (160/60/4)

160 BPM, gameboy scale, amencutup hats, moogBass angels

src: live/midi/nova/breaks/nuit_agitee.tidal

05Permanence150 BPMtechno

pattern

chop 4 $ loopAt 4 $ "bass_nes:1"

NES bass sample chopped with freeze and squiz effects

sample

"fguitar:40"

Guitar with distort and crush for industrial texture

effect

# distortbus 52 (range 0 1.5 "^34")

MIDI-controlled distortion on guitar

technique

note ("<c4 ef4 <bf3 <g3 g4>> <af3 f4 af3 af4>>") # "moogBass"

Chromatic minor progression on moogBass pad

structure

setcps (150/60/4)

150 BPM, superfork lead with delay, fsynth with octer/crush

src: live/collab/raph/permanence.tidal