Gimmie A Break.
batmon
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If a read another "break" post I'm gonna go postal.Cats are still searchin' for breaks, I thought production has moved beyond the break beat. Yes, its a Hip Hop tradition but c'mon, Its 2006 not 1976.Kool KEITH quote.... Kool Keith: Yeah. I'm definitely serious about that. I'm an overlooked producer. Take Spankmaster. I've been a producer for years. I did stuff on ???Dr. Dooom'. I did the original stuff on ???Black Elvis'. You got people that think I can't produce. I was never into jazz or nothing like that. I never met Ron Carter. I am just that retarded funk maker. So, my whole thing about that is, that being a top producer is basically saying I am a notch above those guys. I respect those producers. Don't get me wrong. I'm not scared to try something different. Everybody else is still being safe and using a kick and a snare. I graduated to the congas of Africa . I went out to Africa to see that they are banging on the bongos. You get on the train in New York , you see bongos. Everybody's banging bongos. We funky right now. I took the sound to another level. I was the first to do that. So, when anybody tries to claim that, they can't claim that. As far as hip hop producers, they are out of the loop. They still sampling jazz records. The producers that I picked were more futuristic producers. These are the top guys that I say can play their own music and be futuristic at the same time. Timberland can make his own music. Neptunes can make their own music from scratch. There is not a record to sample. You're an artist when you start making your own music. That is the order I put the groups in because that's what I see. Lil' John makes his own music. Kool Keith makes his own music. I don't use the horns from someone else. They are my horns. So, the courts don't have to come to me for samples. They don't have to get in my face. That's mine. I own those horns. I own those hits. That's my stuff.
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Diversity?....................
its all about phyiscal modeling. just make a physical model of a bongo drum, pop it into you're favorite modular software environment, and crank out your own samples.
http://www.harmony-central.com/Synth/Articles/Physical_Modeling/
when ced gee was sampling
My question is what hits? So is kool Kieth going to say, "naw I ain't rappimg on that Kut Masta Kurt, cause you sampled a library break". Doubt it.
next level?? that website is almost 10 years old... and they have MP2 files, which must be some ancient precursor to MP3's...
A break.
OH SNAP! LOU FERIGNO GOT BEATS!
uh, yeah, that's what i thought... Odd!
Got Kool Keith's new album in the mail last week. 'Lost Masters Vol 2'.
He's a nice guy & all, with some great music in the past, but the dinky keyboard sound is rank. It's just dull. Will probably sell a few hundred copies to the super diehard Kieth fans. In fact a lot of his stuff from the last 6 years has been painful to listen to. And this is coming from a diehard Ultra fan.
Oh & the acoustic guitar should be dead & buried according to some of the logic here. Duh!
Breaks are timeless, certain keyboard sounds will date badly. We'll see.
Each to their own... as long as the music has soul. It'll be all good.