Songs which sound good when slowed down from 45 rpm to 33 rpm

Inspired by listening to 'Funnel of Love' by Wanda Jackson:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/04/funnel-of-love-mp3s.html

Thanks to 'international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)' for the heads up.

By the way, if you dont have a turntable or a vinyl collection Audacity can emulate this slow down with any mp3 you throw at it.

Only song I tried so far is 'The Rip' by Portishead. Beth Gibbons sounds amazing as a man and the synth arrangement at the end of the song sounds gorgeous. Will try to upload to youtube.

i remember doing this with the 45 of "friends" by jody watley when i was a kid

there's a whole genre of music started because of this (well 2 actually). cosmic disco from italy in the mid 80s and screwed and chopped southern hip hop.

The Fields of the Nephilim, "Sumerland" -- at 45 rpm their usual glowering goth brilliant nonsense. At 33 rpm, the actual march of goddamn doom, especially when the drums fully kick in and lay waste to everything around.

Coil's instrumental version of "Windowpane" sounds fantastic on 33, heads up stirmonster.

Rush O))) - "Working Man" screwed down to doom/sludge/stoner speed!

itunes should totally do this out of the box, that it doesn't is further proof that comptuers are shit, qed case closed.

i think in quicktime, there's an option to muck with speed/pitch

many years ago in true peel style by accident i put on walking with mr wheeze, the instrumental b-side on the 7" our house by madness on at 33rpm.
never been able to listen to it at the normal speed since such was the improvement.

Portishead - The Rip slowed down to 33 1/3 rpm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_E1-t6h4ZE

tupac amaru shakur "it aint easy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdlNRLUyjM

Eddie Murphy "Party all the time"

I got this Hark/Sigh thing by Baby and Hide and it sounds great at 33 1/3

there's a whole genre of music started because of this (well 2 actually). cosmic disco from italy in the mid 80s and screwed and chopped southern hip hop.

― jaxon, Friday, February 5, 2010 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

two of my favorite kinds of club music!

i found a copy of jermaine jackson's BASS ODYSSEY this morning inside a rick james LP i bought, and it sounds fucking awesome on 33. just like cosmic boogie, like jaxon says. slow dance music is like the biggest duh slam dunk obv for blaz0rs.

my girlfriend used to play "African Rhythms" by Mi Ami (ex-members of Black Eyes) at 33 on her radio showz; sounded pretty great, from my (admittedly biased) perspective

Once spent ages playing Fiddy's "Candy Shop" slower and slower in a loop, works a treat.

aphex twin - druqks

"I Feel Love" is like the poster child for this...

conversely... I once started "Giant Steps" without realizing I had left the turntable at 45. but it sounds fine that way, except that it makes Trane sound like the greatest soprano sax player to ever live.

thread has inspired me to pack another bowl, good work everyone

Hope Sandoval - Suzanne slowed down from 45 rpm to 33 1/3. Really like how the vibraphone and the harmonica sounds on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Bzr8_kDKM

OMG 'The Rip' sounds like a real Scott Walker song.

I do this (as well as 33 to 45) all the time, it's like my first instinct when listening to a bad instrumental record.

wow the rip is great

all of metal box slowed down would probably be pretty cool

OH. MY. GOD. Someone posted Madonna's "Justify My Love" at 33 on the gay thread over the summer and it was WHAAAT THE FUCK good. It sounds so sultry and somehow even more dimly-lit/smoky than the original.

"Too Drunk to Fuck" by Dead Kennedys

Here it is (Justify My Love): http://www.mediafire.com/?jwd5vgomka4

Did this with the entirety of the Jah Division 12-inch. It went from good to completely awesome.

From the Rush O))) thread (and still the answer):

I played the Butthole Surfers PCPPEP at 33 for a good long while before I realized it was supposed to be on 45. Hadn't heard anything else by them at that point so had no idea it was wrong. It sounds heavy and evil as fuck.

Still do it every once in a while just for the memories.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, August 31, 2009 10:07 PM

hear for yourself: https://www.opendrive.com/files?6069145_ea2yg

Just playing around and Alice In Chain's "The Rooster" is amazing when you do this.

every song

telstar!!!
bo hansson "the black riders"!!!

basically any surf 45 ever!

I did this to Sisters Of Mercy's Afterhours and Joy Division's Atmosphere and then played Ramones' It's Alive album at 45.

The Rip sounds like a Knife or Fever Ray thing, but with a consistent vocal pitch.

sometimes i like to play girl group 45s at 33.

basically any instrumental is gonna sound better imo.

m mayer-x

you should listen to this mix

http://www.discogs.com/Rub-N-Tug-Better-With-A-Spoonful-Of-Leather-aNYthing-Mix-Volume-2/release/863955

the the "perfect smile" sounds amazing slowed down

there's a soft cell on that cd as well. marc almond sounds kinda like shirley bassey

soft cell song!

there are so many of these it is absolutely gross. i could list forever.

There's a composer who djs as Ratface Dreamangel who does this live - with beatmatching - with early 90s dance music ie "Don't Stop" "Addicted To Bass" "Heaven" - every one of those 8ths! 16ths! 32nds! 64ths! 128ths! snare swells sounds like the collapse of a civilization

philip glass - music in similar motion. it loses all it's mechanistic feel.

http://www.discogs.com/Rub-N-Tug-Better-With-A-Spoonful-Of-Leather-aNYthing-Mix-Volume-2/release/863955

the the "perfect smile" sounds amazing slowed down

― anita bonghit (rionat)

as do linda law "all the night"
http://www.discogs.com/Rub-N-Tug-Rub-N-Tug-Present-Campfire/release/476849

and material "bustin out"
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Zevolution-ZE-Records-Re-Edited/release/2047587

a bit of a shtick but i dont mind.

man *everything* sounds better slower --- at least for a few spins

they really just need to go ahead and put a pitch slider next to the volume contol on every audio device ----

Model 500 - Starlight

Virtually all drum'n'bass sounds outrageously heavy at 33rpm

you should listen to this mix

http://www.discogs.com/Rub-N-Tug-Better-With-A-Spoonful-Of-Leather-aNYthing-Mix-Volume-2/release/863955

^^^^^^

"sleepless" instrumental by king crimson is heavy heavy shit

v/vm's TAKE MY BEEF AWAY

ohhh speaking of soft cell

TAINTED DUB

Not a fan of this, don't care for slowing things down. (Which means I never took advantage of my parents' ancient 4-speed stereo which included that weird "16" speed.) Used to play LPs at 45 a lot though, especially "Sister Ray" and Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again".

If you have Winamp then you can go to the Preferences screen (e.g. by pressing ctrl-P), Plug-ins -> DSP/Effect, pick "Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP" from the list, Configure, load the preset "justin - simple pitch and tempo (half-2x) control", tick the checkbox to enable processing, and mess about with the speed.

(Not as complicated as it sounds once you get used to it. You might need to have downloaded the full free version and not the Lite version. Doesn't work on Winamps before version 5, if anyone is still clinging to version 2. Hell, is anyone else still even using Winamp? I mostly am, but I'm a luddite.)

33 is about 74% of 45, so if you aim for halfway between the default and the bottom of the slider, you're roughly there. The other direction is about a third of the way between the centre point and the top of the slider.

I was at a club when they played the Charlatans' "The Only One I Know" at 33, and it sounded wow!

Next time at the same place, they did the same thing, but realised their 'mistake' and returned the speed to 45.

If I hadn't been there that time, I'd have thought they had done it on purpose.

there's a whole genre of music started because of this (well 2 actually). cosmic disco from italy in the mid 80s and screwed and chopped southern hip hop.

And also Belgian New Beat, as I recall.

The original Pure Trance non-vocal mix of the KLF's "What Time Is Love" sounded good at 33. Oh, and there was a Vicious Pink B-side, "8:15 To Nowhere".

As a nipper, I discovered that my Pinky & Perky singles played at 33 converted to normal female voices. Also, if you play the sped-up vocals towards the end of The Goons "Ying Tong Song" at 16rpm, they convert back to normal.

If you have Winamp then you can go to the Preferences screen (e.g. by pressing ctrl-P), (...)

wow, thanks for this. i had no idea this was available in winamp.

welcome to the jungle

Epic, heavy tune made more epic, heavier:
King Crimson - Asbury Park
http://www.mediafire.com/?wztn5gmr1nn

http://www.mediafire.com/?7621zqsb775263b

An hour of millenium-period trance played at the wrong speed, crudely mixed and splitting the difference between "balearic disco" and "witch house"

the dub version of "let the music play" sounds good at 33.

I just condensed the first side of Disintegration into 8:23 w/o pitch-shifting. Some of the vocals are completely indecipherable, but the drums and guitar come off really cool in some places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpT1M20nLg

Not a big fan of this practice. (Used to LOVE playing albums at 45 tho)

here's a shitty hour long mix i did of super slowed down disco/italo/etc

https://soundcloud.com/shampoo-for-dogs/air-rider-a-cosmic-spoonful

ayy meant to post this in the new thread, oh well.

it's an old shitty mix

What new thread?

A dedicated thread for 45->33 rpm slowdown in the era of online sharing