How I Did It
by Carosone
Tools I Used
Cakewalk Sonar, Kontakt 5 sampler, Ueberschall loop libraries of sax and guitar, Ezdrummer drum sampler, Z3ta+ soft synth
Original Samples
Drum programming, all keyboards (electric wurly piano, synth), minimoog bass, fxs
Process
The pella was sung with natural rallentando and accelerando around 67 bpm. So I had to track every bpm speed variation in the software and got busy aligning tracks: everything had to be played along, nothing pre-programmed.
Other Notes
I discovered that a lot of what we call "groove" lies in the not perfectly sharp-on-time playing