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BTW, slowing down idm and similar busy electronic music, in the manner of vinyl, is quite solid entertainment. Aphex Twin is known for this, so much so that RDJ
by aasasd 7y ago
BTW, slowing down idm and similar busy electronic music, in the manner of vinyl, is quite solid entertainment. Aphex Twin is known for this, so much so that RDJ admitted he knows about this and suggested that ‘RDJ Album’ could be listened at 33 RPM to obtain an album of ‘standard’ 45 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWqf17mUyoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWqf17mUyoQ
You need to take care to properly slow down the audio, though, with corresponding pitch shift down. Not ‘stretching’ it keeping the pitch constant.
Apparently the genre of New Beat stemmed in large part from DJs playing rave records at wrong tempos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBvP3616Wc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBvP3616Wc (see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUipCxjmmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUipCxjmmw).
I've also had similarly splendid results with slowing down hard house (specifically my favorite compilation Insomnia Vol.2 from Tidy Trax). It turned into proper house with lotsa relaxed steady drive but much more engaging sound.
On your own machine, both workstation and telephone, VLC can alter the playing speed with good quality and proper pitch shift (or with no shift!). For batch converting, `sox` is a good choice—ffmpeg botches the sound for some reason.
- solstice 7y agoNewpipe (very good alternative YouTube app on android) also supports independently changing speed/pitch. (The button to unlink both is a bit hidden: press the "1x" control when playing a video, then scroll down in the modal that pops up)
- spats1990 7y agoI too love slowed songs, and slowing down songs myself. Also, would recommend DJ Screw as a classic entrypoint into the closely related and timehonoured rap tradition of chopped and screwed songs.[1] There are also quite a few people on YouTube who do solid slowed versions of... a lot of different genres. Some of their versions I like better than the originals. Some channels keep getting copyright-struck though. I'll edit some links into this comment when I'm not at work,if any of those are still up. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y4qntzxdoF0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y4qntzxdoF0 DJ Screw wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Screw https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Screw
- ZeroGravitas 7y agoOther slow music worth checking out, in some other genres: Jolene by Dolly Parton slowed down to 33rpm: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1QJ7LwjA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1QJ7LwjA And some slow covers: Vanilla Fudge (they do a few like this): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6CL8ASLVWPk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6CL8ASLVWPk Issac Hayes 18bmin cover of By The Time I get to Pheonix: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Kb607VNKM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Kb607VNKM Dick Slessig Combo doing a 42 minute version of Wichita Lineman: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MorgJwbBhe4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MorgJwbBhe4
- aasasd 7y agoAh! Vanilla Fudge reminded me of the extremely fine thing that is songs of Alvin and chipmunks, slowed down 2x: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-MYe0SL9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-MYe0SL9Q and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpofYybjXgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpofYybjXgQ (these are probably compilations from other vids). They're much much better with bass boosted somewhat with a browser EQ plugin, or with VLC—but the higher end must be kept, for the voices. The original ‘Diamond Dolls’ is gorgeous in this rendition, and some others like ‘My Sharona,’ ‘Good Girls Don't,’ or ‘How Do I Make You,’ might be the best ways to play such songs. After those vids, I had to go through their song collections—and found some other gems, like ‘I Fought The Law,’ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop,’ ‘Whip It,’ the incredibly cool ‘I'm Too Sexy,’ or also original ‘I Wish I Could Speak French.’