I love how some cats think they can just loop up a Bob James sample and put a breakbeat over it proclaiming it's "real hip-hop" it's a new age... come up with new ideas
it is what it is. i just couldnt hang with the Y Society album because it sounded like it was digitally distorting the whole time. i felt like it let down the listen...
So you guys feel the same way about Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and all those bands?
See, the whole new funk/soul movement illustrates my earlier point about dogmatism not necessarily being a bad thing. Yes, a fair share of them came/come across as JB epigons, but then there's a handful that actually managed to inject their own identity into the box they set up for themselves. Sharon Jones & The Dap-King definitely have their own identity IMO.
This Damu fella's beats just lack personality. Like Paycheck said, it sounds like some third tier Buckwild/Showbiz/Pete Rock outtakes from 93-95. And even at that time I was getting tired of that sound pretty quickly because there was so many followers with the loud-ass ??ber-quantized TSI-TSI-TSI-TSI 8th note hihats and jazzy loops over Little Feat breaks. It was getting really boring. I know the "real" rap fans love that era, but a lot of the east coast production from that time was stiff as hell.
I'm all for bringing back what was good about the style, but at least try to give it your own spin. And try to find some samples we haven't heard a zillion times before.
Im as bored with this whole throwback/backpack sound as the next guy. But Damu is one of the better producers out there. I guess for some of you thats not sayin much about the state of the game but hey what ever floats your boat.
I like some throwback shit. I love big ass loops. I jam Daptone stuff all day. It's not about that.
Dudes are trying to defend these tracks on some "I guess you guys just don't like REAL HIP-HOP." But Show and Buck and Primo are still around. And they don't even make beats like this any more. We all have those records... can pull them out at any time. Maybe homie has some other stuff that's different, so I don't want to judge but the two above just sound unoriginal.
"Back in the days you'd get stepped to for biting. Nowadays suckers they be finding it exciting."
There. I've gone and dropped a quote from Guru. Look what you've made me do!
So you guys feel the same way about Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and all those bands?
See, the whole new funk/soul movement illustrates my earlier point about dogmatism not necessarily being a bad thing. Yes, a fair share of them came/come across as JB epigons, but then there's a handful that actually managed to inject their own identity into the box they set up for themselves. Sharon Jones & The Dap-King definitely have their own identity IMO.
This Damu fella's beats just lack personality. Like Paycheck said, it sounds like some third tier Buckwild/Showbiz/Pete Rock outtakes from 93-95. And even at that time I was getting tired of that sound pretty quickly because there was so many followers with the loud-ass ??ber-quantized TSI-TSI-TSI-TSI 8th note hihats and jazzy loops over Little Feat breaks. It was getting really boring. I know the "real" rap fans love that era, but a lot of the east coast production from that time was stiff as hell.
I'm all for bringing back what was good about the style, but at least try to give it your own spin. And try to find some samples we haven't heard a zillion times before.
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Trouser Lopez is an excellent name. Fudgemunk? Not so much.
I love how some cats think they can just loop up a Bob James sample and put a breakbeat over it proclaiming it's "real hip-hop"
it's a new age... come up with new ideas
he is DJ DAY and waxpo approved
this might stirrup some ss catnip
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I think all the dudes riding for him are in Germany.
So he's German, too?
See, the whole new funk/soul movement illustrates my earlier point about dogmatism not necessarily being a bad thing. Yes, a fair share of them came/come across as JB epigons, but then there's a handful that actually managed to inject their own identity into the box they set up for themselves. Sharon Jones & The Dap-King definitely have their own identity IMO.
This Damu fella's beats just lack personality. Like Paycheck said, it sounds like some third tier Buckwild/Showbiz/Pete Rock outtakes from 93-95. And even at that time I was getting tired of that sound pretty quickly because there was so many followers with the loud-ass ??ber-quantized TSI-TSI-TSI-TSI 8th note hihats and jazzy loops over Little Feat breaks. It was getting really boring. I know the "real" rap fans love that era, but a lot of the east coast production from that time was stiff as hell.
I'm all for bringing back what was good about the style, but at least try to give it your own spin. And try to find some samples we haven't heard a zillion times before.
is this a chipmunk who hordes fudge instead of nuts?
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this is really dudes name?
fudgemunk...
Dudes are trying to defend these tracks on some "I guess you guys just don't like REAL HIP-HOP." But Show and Buck and Primo are still around. And they don't even make beats like this any more. We all have those records... can pull them out at any time. Maybe homie has some other stuff that's different, so I don't want to judge but the two above just sound unoriginal.
"Back in the days you'd get stepped to for biting. Nowadays suckers they be finding it exciting."
There. I've gone and dropped a quote from Guru. Look what you've made me do!
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WORD EM UP
With O.C. on top this works much better for me. Still nothing to write home about but much better than the two instrumentals posted before.
he explains the name in this vid, not like it makes any more sense, funny though
Never, actually. Does your question have something to do with that video I didn't watch?
Aha. Seeing as I can't really watch video at work, care to give a quick breakdown?
He's inspired by Willie Wonka and The Chocalate Factory - FUDGE/Skin Color
Tamu is a Shaolin Monk - DAMU
Presto...
well that was simple.