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    Document One Hands Up

    Apr 06, 2021 4 minutes

    Kicking off their careers as purveyors of dirty dubstep on labels like Buygore and Never Say Die, Joe Froud and Matt King AKA Document One have turned their attention to slamming dancefloor DnB in recent years. We caught up with the Oxford-based duo to find out how they created their no-nonsense, filthy roller Hands Up in Ableton Live.

    You seem very keen on using MIDI in the video, programming kick and snare one-shots on the same channel and using the MIDI-triggered Duck plugin for sidechain-style effects. Are all your projects created this way?

    Yeah, and I think it’s down to simplicity:

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