Chopped & Screwed

I really hadn't a clue about what seems to be pretty deep and involved scene. It's based around remixing mainly southern hip hop using only two techniques; chopping and screwing. The chop is the moving around of bits of the track and creating effects that kinda sound like a CD skipping. The screw is slowing the whole track right down, and flowing the music through distortions and effects. It's really weird, and it take a bit of time to get into, but once you're there it's really good. It gets kinda addictive and proper hip hop starts to sound strange.

If it helps you to understand about why this music is the way it is, it was conceived under the influence of 'Purple Drank' or 'Syrup', which is a mixture of prescription strength cough mixture (codiene & promethazine) with either soft drinks or booze. Might help you get into the correct frame of mind to know that. Get down your local Chemist.

Ludacris and T-Pain recently released this specifically chopped and screwed record, witht the aim of mimicing the sound, as as such it's not truly C&S, but it's good none-the-less. This track got the treatment naturally, but double chopping and screwing is when it's time to call it a day.