Playing with deep, atmospheric sounds, Bop shows that drum and bass isn’t a one-dimensional genre but is actually rife with a new generation of listeners and producers all bringing their own sounds to the scene.

This podcast was made for Gardarika, an underground D+B label based in St. Petersburg.

TRACKLIST:

Oak – Firebird [Space Cadets]
Bop – In My Dreams [Brand:Nu?]
Oak – Nu Sunrise [Brand:Nu?]
Calibre – Piano Bizness [Critical]
> (tease) Oak – Nu Sunrise [Brand:Old]
Bop (feat. Bev Lee Harling) – Extraterrestrial Creatures Are Stealing You From Me From The Bedroom [Med School]
Spectrasoul – The Gift [Shogun Audio] + D-Bridge – Since We Been Apart [Shogun Audio]
D-Bridge – The Little Things [Metalheadz]
Microfunk Crew – Untitled [Unreleased]
ASC – Oneironaut [Auxiliary]
Korsun – Where The Time Goes [Unreleased]
Bop – Impermanence [Med School]
> (Tease) Bop & Despot – Microfunk [Cunter Intelligence]
Getz – Derek [Interactive]
ASC – Aqualoop [Space Cadets]
Bop – An Open-Eyed Dream [Med School]
Abstract Elements – Abysmal Depth [Exit]
Consequence – Marlo [Exit]

This time round, Bop and Oak host with fellow artists Boseg, Jalex, Dissident and LXC also featuring in the show.

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Also, while you’re at it, don’t forget that Bop’s “Minimal Drum + Bass 2″ sample pack is OUT NOW! Get your copy from the Hospital Shop now.

‘Minimal Drum + Bass 2′ weighs in at 800MB and includes 1000 24 bit samples, including 240 loops at 170Bpm, and 760 One Shot Samples. Also included are 24 ready to play patches for Halion, Kontakt, EXS, SFZ and Reason NNXT compatible Soft samplers. Apple Loops, Reason Refill and Ableton Live versions are also available to purchase separately.

Producers should expect to find 100 Drum Loops, 20 Hat Loops, 20 Percussion Loops, 50 Music Construction Kit Loops, 50 Variation Themed Loops, 40 Fx Loops, plus 720 One Shot Drum Hits which are excellent for programming your own beats and glitch sequences.

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01 – Korsun – Dove [dub]
02 – D-Bridge – Detuned Heart [Autonomic]
03 – Getz and Nuage – Is The Way [Absys]
04 – Bop – The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel [Med School]
05 – Oak – Otaku (ASC remix) [Space Cadets]
06 – Korsun – Personal Nothingness [dub]
07 – Triad – Crooked [Nu Directions]
08 – Paul B – This Is The Girl [All Sorts]
09 – Dissident – Orbital Debris [dub]

Photographed by Pavel Sidorov / Video Editing – Jalex.    From left > right Bop, Jalex, Oak.

The latest project from Bop, Oak and Jalex is “Microfunk Live” – an inspired concept, involving the collection of 30 samples from members of their microfunk.ru site and the composition of six tunes which were then performed live and filmed. We spoke to Bop to find out more…

“Everyone was able to send to us one sample and then from all this material we wanted to make a tune. After some attempts and because of the extraordinary variety of the samples we changed the concept of the project a little. We decided to produce more tunes, then play it live and make a video of it. So, we took our sampler with chopped one-shots, drum synthesizer, laptop + some other devices and had fun with it.” 

“We  got around 30 samples. The samples was taken and collated in December last year. So it has taken around six months to make 6 tunes, as well as do the live performance and do the video in my previous rented apartment.”

Equipment we used:
1x Laptop
1x Launchpad
1x Korg Electribe ES-1 MK2
1x Korg Electribe ER-1
2x Midi Keyboard
1x E-mu 0404 usb Audio/MIDI Interface
1x Usb hub
1x Duck toy

There are plans to start more interesting projects so keep watching on microfunk.ru