Ever since 65daysofstatic has been a band, we've been doing cut-ups, unofficial remixes and bootleg releases alongside writing music of our own. In the very early days these kinds of things would appear on DIY 65 CDRs alongside our 'proper' songs. But then we started working with actual record labels, who were keen to remind us that copyright is a thing and who didn't really wanna get sued for the sake of some weird noise band from Sheffield.
So we shifted our penchant for adding artisan glitches to hyper-produced pop music, doing unasked-for remixes and drowning random songs in jungle loops into a different space. We started making changeover mixes to play between the bands at our shows instead. Always an under-appreciated moment at a gig that, the between-bands period. It's a great time to gently build some anticipation.
I have been having a lot of fun with the Octatrack recently, working out how to do in realtime the kinds of glitchy breakcore cutups that I used painstakingly make by hand. The built-in FX and time-stretching all sound pretty dated, but if you embrace them along with its great-but-limited sampling capabilities then the Octatrack can really capture a particular kind of 90s audio grit. It's not possible to make a track that holds the same kind of detail as doing it manually would, but it's a lot quicker...
Here's a cut up of a BLACKPINK song I did the other day because, simply put, I cannot stop listening to BLACKPINK.