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While hip-hop and electro were initially two parallel universes, they have long been inseparable and trap is just one of many symbiotic relationships of the two. Stars like Sido, Drake, Deichkind or Alison Wonderland show more than clearly how well the fusion of both worlds works. In the following special, we not only have hip acts in an interview, but also look over their shoulders as they produce and give you all the tools and tricks you need for contemporary trap as well as classic sampling & turntablism hip-hop with 12-bit aesthetics. Two styles with related origins, but they couldn‘t be more different. While one of them mercilessly merges 808 basses with autotune in the commercial sector, the other relies fully on diss and flame rhymes. A gloomy, one-sided scenario?…

1 Trap beat The rhythmic foundation of Alison Wonderland‘s hits „Easy“ is a somewhat bumpy beat at 135 BPM. Here, a massive bass drum meets a crisp TR-808 snare as well as rattling hi-hats. To reprogram the beat, we use the preset „Celph Entitled v2“ of the UJAM Beatmaker Dope. So that it sounds even gaudier, we turn Maximize all the way up. 2 Kick & snare The kick plays on the eighth counts 1 and 7 in bar 1 and 4 and 8 in bar 2, and the snare always plays on the third quarter count. But how does the distinctive bumpy groove come about? For one thing, we delay the snare hits slightly, while bringing selected kicks forward a bit. Experimentation is the name of the game here to get…

Beat/ When did you start producing trap? Alex / It‘s difficult to define when certain music has become trap. Our music has always had trap influences. I would say I‘ve been making trap instrumentals since 2010. Greeny / I already produced beats in 2007, back then with Babba Music/Immer.Ready. We released a mixtape whose sound was already very much influenced by southern rap. Trap developed from this type of music, which also includes crunk, in the USA. Actually, we‘ve been there from the start. Beat / What were your biggest influences back then? Alex / We started listening to Gucci Mane very early-must have been around 2008. This is definitely my biggest influence. Greeny / Exactly, we listened to Gucci Mane a lot, but we also thought artists like J…

1 Suitable Drumkit Sido‘s hit „High“ (feat. Samra & Kool Savas) has a moderate tempo of 87 BPM. For the drums we use the kit „Planet Malaysia“ of the plug-in UJAM Beatmaker Dope [1]. We replace the first snare of the drum kit with the sound „SN 1-West“. For programming the kick drum, we first set a sixteenth note grid. 2 Groove Place the bass drum on beats 1, 8, and 11 in bar 1, and 1, 8, 11, 12, and 16 in bar 2, while we place the snare on every third quarter beat. Here, too, the hi-hat plays a continuous sixteenth-note rhythm. You can achieve a lively groove by slightly bringing forward or delaying the individual beats of the three drums. 3 Bass It is also important to…

1 Drum foundation “Dinge” has a tempo of 80 bpm, but hi-hat programming is easier at twice the tempo. For the drums we use the Beatmaker Dope from UJAM [1]. With its gritty lofi sound, the “Uptempo Banger v2” preset is ideal for our purposes. The basis of the beat is a two-bar pattern that is varied over and over again. 2 Laid back feeling We place the bass drum on eighth counts 1 and 4 in bar 1 and 3 and 8 in bar 2. The main snare beats are on every third quarter-note, whereby the ghost notes in the picture make the beat much livelier. As shown, the kick drum and snare hits are sometimes a little delayed, which creates a relaxed feeling. 3 Driving Hi-hats The closed hi-hats play a…

Airbit Airbit is a platform where you can sell your beats but also soundpacks. You can specify for what price you want to sell your instrumental and the extent of its use, depending on the selling price. After the purchase, an electronic contract is automatically created for the buyer based on your details. There are three price models to choose from: Basic, Gold and Platinum. The first variant is free, gold and platinum cost between 8 and 16 US dollars per month. Depending on the model, you can access various functions such as an unlimited upload or discount codes. By the way: 100 percent of the sales revenue stays with you. www.airbit.com soundee The provider soundee has a simple structure, which has a positive impact on the overview and usability.…

The Underground Crates by MPC-Samples.com: This sample pack contains two hip-hop themes and two sampled instruments from the full Underground Crates expansion. Each kit contains crisp drums, melodic vinyl-style one-shots, and MIDI sequences with laid-back boom-bap drums and melodic chords, basslines, and leads. 150 SAMPLES | WAV & MPC PROGRAMS Hook City – trap & soul edition by Akai Pro & MVP Loops: Emotional vocals by Rudina Haddad and tons of radio-friendly samples. This MPC expansion pack contains hundreds of loops, hard-hitting samples, creative riffs and one-shots. The samples work in any production style, from hip-hop to EDM. 10 DRUM KITS | 130 LOOPS | 557 SAMPLES Urban Roulette by Akai Pro & MVP Loops delivers a hot selection of kits from urban, trap, hip hop, r‘n‘b and pop. It…

1 General Chillstep combines two distinctive features under one hood: On the one hand there are spherical pads, which take over the melodic main role, while on the other hand heavy beats with mostly urban and experimental touch hammer against it. What both have in common, however, is the tendency that you need to listen, because at a tempo of around 70 bpm the danceability tends to zero. 2 Pad sound The basis for the track is a pad, which we create with the freeware Lokomotiv. The synth is ideally suited due to its excellent sound. Load the plug-in and lower the cutoff a little so that the sound is a bit less harsh. For the envelope, we set the attack to 60%, decay to 80% and sustain and release to…