Don't know about the distortion, depends which sound. Lots of distortion on the mackie desk combined with overdriven outs on 3 customized reaktor enables making the bass (its a distorted kick drum sample), all vocal samples and some of the beats.

Also using a lot of free plugins, that JS disto, Mda, destroy FX. I try to avoid the obvious plugins, one of my pet hates is when people use that predetohm on everything. After a while you start to notice a familiar sound track after track and thats a problem