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Moving Where It Dances: time-stretching

Finding a common pulse is part of the remixers art – Byron Wallen explains how it works

To make the parts fit together, Byron had to use a technique called ‘time-stretching’. Exactly what does this entail?

Time-stretching has become a very valuable tool for producers and remixers working in hip-hop, R&B and dance music. In those genres, mixes are often constructed by taking samples and breakbeats from many different sources. Sometimes the beats do not have the same pulse but time-stretching allows the remixer to find a common pulse for different parts.

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