Marc 'MK' Kinchen remixes Storm Queen on MASCHINE and TRAKTOR

My name is Marc Kinchen. Also I go by MK. DJ, producer, remixer. I started out in Detroit, working with Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May and those guys doing the techno stuff. A few years later I moved to New York. I started working with Masters at Work, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega, Todd Terry and I embraced that sound a little more, the New York sound. My sound got a little more dirty, I think once I got to New York. Which I happen to like. They swing the drums pretty hard in New York and it's stripped down more in New York. It's more, just dirty. Usually when I get a remix I get all the parts from the record label. I usually play the drums with acapella. And I just build from that. And once I get the key I like, then I start to chop the vocals up and create a new melody. That's a process I do for a couple of hours until I feel like I have it right. And once I have it right I just, the rest just flows. The Maschine is actually the heart of my whole set-up. I do my drums in Maschine, I do my vocal sounds in Maschine cause I use Kontakt a lot. I use my synth through my Maschine. And then once I'm done I export it to my sequencer. So this has been a life saver and a lot of times even when I'm flying I can take my Maschine and my Air and just go on a plane and just work. Usually when I cut the vocals I'll start with one pad. I'll import the audio, I'll find a slice of what I like and from that sliced point I'll copy and move it to the next pad and continue from that sliced point. And the fact that I can take a sound and just with two press of a button copy that sound to next pad and edit it a little different from the previous pad. It's a dream. Another good thing I like about Maschine is the way you can export whatever you do in Maschine and import it right into your sequence program. I like to sometimes do different things within different parts of the song so it's easier to have them on separate tracks. So I can arrange in Logic. Click it, hold it, drag it right into any window I want. It's there. And then I go back and just start building more and more into the track. I remix a lot and I DJ a lot. But now with my remixes I can actually take files that are in my remix and drag them right over to Traktor in the Remix Deck. I'm gonna grab these drums, put them in the Remix Deck. And with one click of the mouse, you hold the button down and literary drag that file out of Maschine to your Remix Decks. And it takes seconds to make a full remix that you're gonna play live.