In December of 02006, Martin Spernau and I were preparing for his coming January Daevl In The Pale Moonlight interview. Martin wanted to create a track to showcase how he was using the new Daevl.Plugs and came up with a wonderful concept utilizing creative limitation: I would send him three to five samples and he would create a track from only that source material. The result was his 6:00 epic journey into transmogrification, "Space Sliced Five Ways."

I was thrilled with Martin's idea and the result. We decided to create a project of it, expanding to more musicians. The end product is The 5 Way Path.

Take 5 base samples. Chop them up, process them in any way using anything - warp them, grind them, atomize and reconstruct them - just don't use any other source material in your track. No synths, no other samples, no instruments of any kind, no vox... nothing but those 5 samples freaked out in any way you like.

You can hear the results on Daevlmakr now. Tracks by Logickal, Kudante, Blue Deceiver, Martin Spernau, DJ L.A.M.P., Legis Sustain, Maehymn (featuring CTRLSHFT) and Beta Two Agonist are up.

I'm still amazed at just how different all the tracks are, how everyone's individual aesthetics shine out even though we all began at the same central starting place with the exact same 5 loops.