Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

The first thing I did was sequence right out of the box. I've been 
reading through the manual for a few days so I was on the up and up. 
I have yet to load the new OS. Killer machine. Can't wait to play on 
it more and in a few days I should have it mastered fairly well. I 
decided to try something experimental. As I do whenever I get new 
gear. I'm (sorry to say) dulled out of 'insert techno genre here' for 
the moment and decided to go into uncharted territory with this 
machine. I hooked it up to my mpc 2000XL and a SP-808 EX. I looped up 
some average techno patterns for a total of 32 measures long. I also 
took a buch of vocal samples I had laying around and sequenced them 
into the mix. Now I recorded and effected up the vocal phrase samples 
in the SP and also sampled and chopped them up into individual words 
into the MPC at regular pitch. I played my patterns at 160 bpm for 
the first four measures from each machine. Then for the next twelve 
measures lowered the pitch and slowed the tempo of the vocal samples 
at half time in the SP keeping the XL-7 at 160 bpm. Then the next 
twelve measures I flipped it. I recorded the pattern directly into 
the SP at the regular tempo of the patterns I wrote on the command 
station and I lowered the pitch and slowed the music down to half 
time and the mpc picks up the vocal samples there in regular pitch 
going at 160 bpm. I used the vocal samples (single words) as sort of 
the 'rhythm section' (made them as loud as drums would be) which, 
even though the change from music to samples keeps the overall rhythm 
of the 160 bpm the same (well, it was a flangy distorted Jay-Z 
saying "I will not lose, I will not lose' along with a flangy 
distorted 909 rim shot underneath it at the same time at 160 bpm). 
While the music played in half time with the lower pitch. Then for 
the last four measures it returns to normal. It's what we 
call 'Chopped and Screwed' in the south. But for techno instead. Has 
anyone else ever tried something similar to this? The results 
were...uh...interesting. With a better written pattern and careful 
choice of vocal samples it could be a winner? Then again, I was just 
trying something new with a new machine as always...Anyway, this was 
my day 1 with this machine.