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Thu 18 Jan 2007

Tribal Disco Dub (Tribute To Walter Gibbons)

Posted by Dangerscouse under Polanski
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Dangerscouse says:

January 18, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Polanski

Tracklist

Ten Percent â€“ Double Exposure (Walter Gibbons Mix)
Doin The Best I Can â€“ Betty Lavette (Walter Gibbons Mix)
Iâ€™ve Been Searchin – Arts And Crafts (Walter Gibbons Mix)
Schoolbell/Treehouse â€“ Arthur Russell (Walter Gibbons Mix)
African Chants & Drums â€“ Unknown
4 Ever My Beat â€“ Stetasonic (Walter Gibbons Mix)
Law & Order â€“ Love Committee (Walter Gibbons Mix)
Hit & Run â€“ Loleatta Hollaway (Walter Gibbons Mix)

This is my tribute to Walter Gibbons……I have stripped most of these remixes of strings and vocals and looped his beats and percussion to buggeryâ€¦..added a bit of percussion and a few effects. This really is minimal disco with a tribal feelâ€¦â€¦â€¦Tribal Disco Dub.

Cheers
Polanski

Walter Gibbons
An innocuous white boy with an unconvincing moustache and carefully combed brown hair that was parted right to left. At the time when orchestration was commonly used on dance records, Gibbons’ technique was to concentrate on percussion. Years before his death Gibbons became a Born Again Christian and wouldn’t mix songs with sexual content.
Dangerscouse says:

January 18, 2007 at 8:37 pm

Pol, you’ll have to smile sweetly at Matrix, Bong, or Naz to edit your cover at 593kb it’s too big and I can’t edit it
bong says:

January 18, 2007 at 9:01 pm

for future ref:
under 300k and in either JPG, GIF or PNG format

lookin’ forwards to hearing this 😈
Polanski says:

January 18, 2007 at 9:12 pm

shhiiiiittt…..sorry lads my bad my bad….i knew the rules…..thanks for fixing.
Briscoe says:

January 19, 2007 at 2:19 am

This is awesome disconess, and very cool fun facts as well. It’s nice to see he became born again. Other faves of mine that did are Dj Pierre and Farley Grandmaster Funk. I’m not always good about leaving out vulgarity , but I try to. Takes away from the music for me. I love when people can push the envelope in a musical sense, such as with percussion or found sound, etc. Your looping does just that, pushes the envelope to positive effect. Very cool mix.
Polanski says:

January 19, 2007 at 4:53 am

Sorry , been quite busy now with my son and work , and have baby number 2 on the way, so will take on a second job . In order to do mixes now I put off sleep and put my headphones on at night.

Know how you feel with that night mixing Briscoe…..i got my second on the way as well…….cheers for the nice comments…i wasn’t going to put this up….i felt it was to self indulgent…..and peoples generally run from disco….but really it’s 15% disco 85% beats and percussion……when i was reading up on Walter Gibbons he sounded really interesting and talented…….so i did this mix one Saturday night with the “Iron Chef” in the background…. after a couple of hours working it……i went to bed with the ipod to check it…….felt like i dream’t about the mix allnight…..woke at 4am the next morn to finish it off…..crazy……discoooo
lenodd says:

January 19, 2007 at 9:29 am

Looking forward to this, I like a bit of decent disco me!
bong says:

January 19, 2007 at 2:51 pm

nice mix but for me coulda cut that intro down by a good 5 mins or added some vocal, extra perc/ambience to make it not sound like the same bongo loop (a minor critism tho) 😉
denzil says:

January 19, 2007 at 7:21 pm

having read the comments i am gonna have to listen to this ….sounds very exciting …
denzil says:

January 19, 2007 at 8:36 pm

agree with bong but overall very lovely well done this is good
Polanski says:

January 19, 2007 at 8:58 pm

Yeah that intro is long and repetitive….personally i like that it grates at you for 10 minutes or whatever….and then finally something happens…..but not much……that was my aim with this mix….appreciate the comments cheers lads
bong says:

January 20, 2007 at 2:08 pm

😀
useo8 says:

January 23, 2007 at 2:14 am

Hey,Polanski-Nice work on this one.Love how you re-did the original pieces.The mixings a joy.The percussion emphasis wins me over big time.Great production sound.The high-hat is just how I like it! Warm,but not too hot!
I get a lot of Santana feel from this one.
Polanski says:

January 23, 2007 at 9:05 pm

Cheers useo8…..much appreciate
lenodd says:

January 28, 2007 at 6:40 pm

Enjoyed this – brilliant loops – an education in percussive disco!

proto-house – gonna have to dig some more disco out now! 8)
Gridban says:

January 29, 2007 at 3:34 pm

Some great loops there, overall minimal but interesting, very nicely put together – how was it done?
polanski says:

January 29, 2007 at 7:58 pm

Cheers Gridban & Lenodd……Gridban i chopped those tracks to pieces…..I’m sure on 3-4 of the tracks i only used 2-3 bars….leaving out vocals and strings if i had to….the idea for me was to just get as much percussion out of the tracks as possible….so if i could loop the percussion i grabbed it and threw it in….as a DJ i always liked beats and percussion….and on reading up on Walter it seemed he did too……i liked the idea of him working on a couple of dodgy turntables and mixer working his arse off just looping a couple of bars of percussion and beats……i got the feeling he worked real hard for his djing money…..anyway i just wanted too make the mix percussion and beats heavy with a sprinkling of vocals, strings and fx….all done in Ableton
guy_alcindor says:

September 16, 2007 at 5:51 am

Great mix, listening to it now… nice how you took Gibbons’ disco extremism re: his interest in bizarre sounds and percussion and pushed them to the fore. Seemed to me his genius was a case of being in the right place at the wrong time, in terms of his latter religious conversion. Disco was no place for a man unwilling to make moral compromises…