Musically Thrifty AF

I think I've said it here before, but I really despise cooking metaphors to making something. And in my case, it's obviously music or writing. It is just the worst. There's so much out there, like the Akai MPC cookups. Lord help me, be a nice person when I'm trying to learn something about the MPC and somebody's doing a cookup. It just goons me out. I think it's really low effort, and generally, it's a shit beat anyway, but not for me to judge. I'm just saying. The cooking metaphors are awful. But what got me thinking about that was sampling, and I've been going really deep on sampling, learning the MPC deeply, trying to learn the EP series of samplers from Teenage Engineering. They're really not intuitive for me, but I'm trying to bust through it, and I am busting through it. I've got a little summer setup that is, uh, summer setup, I mean, for the month of July. I’ve got my Tape and Microsound Music Machine from Make Noise, which is so expensive, but it's taken me years to build. I…