Created by slowing down a Justin Bieber song 800%. It's actually quite good.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

Genius.

It sounds like Sigur Ros!

Pretty awesome. I'm curious how some other stuff I usually listen to would sound now.

(Also, this is Gebohq. I'm at Krig's place!)

So if we speed up sigur ros will it sound like Justin Bieber?

i heard this a couple of hours ago. its so beautiful, its hard to believe its Beiber.

Hey heres Sigur Ros slowed down.... EVEN MORE

http://soundcloud.com/8times/vaka-slowed-8-times

Someone beat you to that.

It did not.

Then I hate to admit it but I guess that makes justin bieber a better artist! He appeals to two audiences at two different speeds, sigur ros only appeals to one audience at one speed! IF THAT!

Next time someone askes me if I like justin bieber I'm just going to say "yeah %800 slower"

Only if he did it on purpose, which I highly doubt.

..who?

Yeah, I've head the name but never bothered to look up who he is.

I see now that he's some small child singing about things he doesn't understand.

+1

haha this sounds cool.

Sorry to dredge this up, but I emailed a link to the song to a friend that was a sound engineer in Fort Lauderdale and he said he thought it was bogus.

He said if it was actually slowed down 8X, then that means the frequencies would also be reduced 8X (eg, 16k frequencies would be around 2k), and there is a surprising amount of high-end on the "slow" track, although there shouldn't be. Also, a lot of the attacks were reverse-faded, not to mention the abundance of reverb. That said, I guess that could have all been done after slowing it down.

But anyway, I sped it up 8x and it sounded odd.

What do you guys think? Did you try to get it back to normal speed?

If you read up on it, it's not as simple as a straight 8x slowdown. If it were, yes, it'd just sound ridiculously low/deep. It uses various waveform mechanics to not only maintain the frequencies but also to eliminate artifacts.

It was stretched using a program called "paulstretch", which I've downloaded and tried out on lots of different songs. It seems to use sound stretching algorithms designed specifically for stretching sounds out excessively like this.

Modern computers are ****ing amazing.

It also makes most things sound like you're beating a postrock band to death with their equipment.

And it makes Stars of the Lid sound exactly like Stars of the Lid.

I just gave it a try. I'm surprised I'm actually enjoying it. Just as I'm surprised that I saw a Justin Bieber autobiography in a shop the other week.

Is this something you could link us to perhaps? I'd like to try it out myself on some stuff!

Thanks! I'll have to try it out when I get the chance now. Any suggestions to try/avoid?

This is surprisingly awesome. I think I might meditate to this ****!

Stretching stuff that's already fairly slow and ambient (like Stars of the Lid) doesn't produce very interesting results.
I'm curious whether any musicians have used this kind of stretching to create new samples to use in parts of songs.