Showcase SHOWCASE: August 10-17, 2025

[attila]

With the Beat Fights, I've been cycling through some older beats. Came across this one from 2015. Mostly sampled. I layered in some additional instruments (piano stabs, sustained horns, and bass).

Kinda amazed that this was done entirely in Maschine - back then I was doing full arrangements in Maschine and just exporting to GarageBand for MP3 rendering.

For context, I was getting back into the 90s/Boom-bap sound quite a bit and listening to a lot of old-school stuff. Would love to hear your thoughts!

BiggChev - "Nice & Easy"

Boom Bap

Jazzy

Old School

It reminds me of the vibe of Us3, that kind of jazzy sound, the chords and so on. And the song flows as if it were played by a band. The very open spatial sound has every instrument placed on a different layer—right/left, front/background, reverb... Nice one!

 

[attila]

it is worth to check this fight out https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-fights/fight/378/

 

[Kane the MOD]

With the Beat Fights, I've been cycling through some older beats. Came across this one from 2015. Mostly sampled. I layered in some additional instruments (piano stabs, sustained horns, and bass).

Kinda amazed that this was done entirely in Maschine - back then I was doing full arrangements in Maschine and just exporting to GarageBand for MP3 rendering.

For context, I was getting back into the 90s/Boom-bap sound quite a bit and listening to a lot of old-school stuff. Would love to hear your thoughts!

BiggChev - "Nice & Easy"

Boom Bap

Jazzy

Old School

I love the melodies and the whole vibe of the beat. Super creative without being overproduced. Dope.

Makes me want to jump into my Machine and put something together.

 

[BiggChev]

I love the melodies and the whole vibe of the beat. Super creative without being overproduced. Dope.

Makes me want to jump into my Machine and put something together.

Do it!

Maschine is an absolute weapon. Which version are you using?

 

[Kane the MOD]

Do it!

Maschine is an absolute weapon. Which version are you using?

I have an MK2. You?

 

[BiggChev]

I have an MK2. You?

Right now using an M+

I have the Mikro MK3 and the original MK1 as well. Been using Maschine for nearly 14 years.

 

[attila]

Do you know The Gods Must Be Crazy (produced by El-P) from Armand Hammer's We Buy Diabetic Test Strips album? I recreated it, it's not a remix, there's no samples from the original. I took the structure, the rhythm, even some notes, and I did it my way. I hoped it would be different enough from the original, but it's practically a cover, so I thought it was right to enter it in some competition.

attila - "The Gods Must Be Assoholes"

 

[attila]

Do you know The Gods Must Be Crazy (produced by El-P) from Armand Hammer's We Buy Diabetic Test Strips album? I recreated it, it's not a remix, there's no samples from the original. I took the structure, the rhythm, even some notes, and I did it my way. I hoped it would be different enough from the original, but it's practically a cover, so I thought it was right to enter it in some competition.

attila - "The Gods Must Be Assoholes"

(remastered, that's why lost your like @Kane the MOD . Maybe not the last version, don't know - fired ears now, the other one for sure was weak and dull)