Consistent with my belief in all things Boom Bap, I feel that I must say, "Time stretch is for pussies!!" Why would I say such a thing in this era of Mash-ups and dance remixes? Well potnuh, I'm gonna TELL you why!
Going way back to the dawn of Hip-Hop, we see that the original music for this shit was A DJ juggling records to extend the breaks. Everyone knows that, right? RIGHT? Now there is an inherent relationship between tempo and pitch when we are talking about vinyl. The faster a record is played, the higher the pitch, and vice-versa.
Now: I feel that even in this age of samplers, a producer ought to respect that relationship. It is no show of skill to take two loops and digitally change the tempo or pitch of one of them to match the other. My dead grandmother could do that! My girlfriend's idiot little yap dog could do that!
If you're going to work with samples, have a little respect for yourself! Learn to chop those breaks up and play the chops! Shit, isn't it enough that you don't have to actually work the vinyl itself? I think that if you have to use time-stretch to get your samples to fuck then they just weren't meant to be! Either spend some time learning the art or just get FL Studio and make some crunk beats!
Plus, aliasing sucks donkey dick!
Here is a beat I did with many different sample sources and (of course) no time-stretch. I can do it, you can too! By the way, this is about 5 years old, so don't get all excited talkin' bout,"Ace is wack, he talks all this shit but listen to how bootsy this cut is.." I ain't havin' it. Let's battle!
Boom BAP, bitches!
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