Intapol - Road Werks - 2025

All this stuff is 4/4, sample based electronic music at 127 bpm.
All tracks sequenced using my fork of Linux Multimedia Studio

The majority sequenced using triplets, I'm calling this project rua because I picked up this trick in São Paulo from DJs playing Samba Hocky at street parties downtown.
The first 4 tracks were written in the COPAN building in São Paulo, the rest back in Barcelona while still buzzing from that trip.
Stylistically nothing like Hocky, but all night the tracks the DJs played featured the ghost kick on the second and fourth beat that the tracks here (try to) emulate. That one trick, is what all these tracks revolve around. The effect is similar to the bap boom of a lot of the 90's house I grew up with, but programming it is an entirely different process.
Even if locked at 127 bpm, it tends to sound slower due to having 3 instead of 4 divisions to each beat, feel free to pitch it up.
Good luck mixing it! It is nigh on impossible to mix these tracks with typical 4/4 electronic music.
In the download section there are two mix tools mp3s to get you in and out of these terribly tricky triplets tracks.

Odor-dose

An electro & electronic, sweaty & synthetic take on trippy triplets.

Hocky romp

This was my first attempt to emulate that kick.
Written with Stenheiser in ear monitors and no speaker.
Raw and naughty, it stays.

4 x 4 x 4

This was an arguably failed attempt to superimpose that kick on to existing patterns.
I would not have uploaded this except
it sheds light on the problem this project is trying to solve.

Unlit road

And here we solve it.
City noises, simplistic sequencing
but that slappy swagger is center stage

Honey

I swear this has no swing, it is simply straight sequenced triplets
with that infectious kick on each beat, more so on 2 and 4.
The vocal sample is (hopefully obviously) AI trickery.
As is the horn.
Swingy 4/4 on clinical triplets, just about holds water

White folk too

That kick on just 2 and 4 for this one.
Thus it slaps.
But pushing the limits of swing on clinical triplets I fear.
Vocal sounds rushed as a result.

Ruafication

That kick with a European sound set.
Which does not work for long, familiar but all wrong.
Simply a bridge to the next track.

Rua recovery

Underground rave music but now outside the 4/4 rules.
Moody beats, zero cheese, all threes.
That kick, that swagger, naturally embedded in techno.

Standard

Next up, more bold; rattly triple tops, as if techno.
But not 2/4, 12/4?
The buttons don't exist on a Roland drum machine to do this.

Ruanation

This was written by taking an existing track,
all its patterns and instruments and re:scoring it
according to the new rules.

Ruthless

Ditto, I think it works?

Tremelo

Ditto, I could do this all day...

But here I realised I would have to do this all day.
You cant mix these tracks with anything else.
Reprogram everything you ever did, or stop now, and go back to Beatport.
So I wrote some "get me out of here" mix tools, and hit pause on the project.

Back in São Paulo in 2026, potentially to be continued....

Mix Tools

N.B. While all tracks are 4/4, triplets are a bitch to beat mix with other 4/4 music.
Below are the short 2 mp3s to help mix in and out, they flip the triplets trick on and off without changing the speed or sample set.
34-to-44
44-to-34