DJ Whip, real name Randy Butts, a music producer from Salt Lake City in the US has inadvertently invented an entirely new genre while attempting to make a completely generic house track.
According to Whip, he began by laying out a simple four four drumbeat at 120 BPM and an absolutely generic 1st to 5th bass line, following the old favourite chord progression I –VI –IV – V.
“I was fucking delighted with the results,” he said, “it sounded like everything I had ever heard before.”
However, events took a turn when he tripped over his dog’s tail while walking back to his computer with his dinner of beans on toast.
He lost his footing, falling onto the keyboard and managed to hit about twenty buttons at once, simultaneously spilling his beans all over his dog.
The dog jumped up, dragging the computer’s power chord by its tail, knocking the pc onto the ground. She then proceeded to drag the computer through the house, knocking various items onto it as she went.
Whip feared the worst, however, when he pressed play on his track, it had transformed from being the usual generic four four shit-pile that house producers make, into something which he calls “Dog House”.
“The sound itself is incomparable,” said Whip during an interview today. “It sounds like Aphex Twin in a blender with a load of Psylocibin, or Sqaurepusher being dragged backwards through a field of synths by a thousand monkeys.”
Whip said his world opened up at that moment. “I used to strive to make music like everyone else. That’s why I only ever use 120 BPM and fifths. Now I’m entering an experimental phase where I sit on the keyboard to see what happens, play the synth with my toes and have trained my dog to use an MPC.”
The results are unpleasant to say the least. Despite Whip’s hyperbole about his new sound. Toour ears it sounds more like what Kraftwerk would sound like if they were all tuning up at the same time, if that were even possible. It’s been compared to “an electronic shit storm” by the only music executive who was willing to listen to it.
Whip has said however, that the music must remain unreleased as his dog wants co-producer credit on it, and he is not willing to share the royalties.
