Afterlife by Mummy Club

Rethinking the SP1200

The idea behind the Afterlife project is to challenge how an SP1200 album can sound. Rather than emulating golden era hip-hop, we used the SP as a sound processor to incorporate the grainy textures achieved by extreme pitch manipulation into a dark, modern, musical context. By pushing the limits of acceptable degradation, we have created a forward-looking, original soundscape using ONLY samples filtered through the SP1200. Put simply, it sounds like nothing before it.

While the project may be difficult to pin down genre-wise, the informed listener might observe notes of atmospheric European jazz, Golden era hip-hop production, and subtle shades of '90s Memphis SP drum programming.

Mummy Club is comprised of @Chaz_Emphatic and @AC415n, both devoted SP1200 enthusiasts, each with 20+ years of history in Bay Area hip-hop. Their production credits include tracks featuring Sadat X, Casual, Fatlip, Devin The Dude, White Mic of Bored Stiff and Dave Dub.