Insert a plugin like RC-20 Retro Color or Decapitator . Add "Dust" and "Wobble." Turn the noise up until you hear static. The goal is to make your pristine digital audio sound like it was recorded from a cassette tape in 2003.

It requires the sound of a blown speaker in a night market stall. It requires the specific Slendro pentatonic scale.

Also known as Funkot (a portmanteau of ‘Funk’ and ‘Kot’—short for diskotik ), this genre is the bastard child of Eurodance, Happy Hardcore, and traditional Indonesian Dangdut rhythms. For years, producers who wanted to tap into this sound struggled to find authentic sounds. That era is over. Enter the .