ketan

• New Music / Release Thread

  ketan

  August 2016

  Duderonomy said:

  ketan said:
  
  

  So I think Pablo has really held together well.  What I find amazing about it is the musicality of it. It works as an album in spite of how many different combinations of producers come together on the different songs. He's like Quincy on Thriller on steroids.
   
  

  
  
  Let me just say, in a revised preface to my earlier statement, that I wasn't trying to comparatively rank Quincy and Kanye here. The steroids bit had to do with Kanye's hyperness. 
  

  Wait a fucking minute, Imma have to interrupt you there. You're comparing Kanye with Quincy from an album made by other producers for Kanye to phone in some bullshit thoughts about gossip magazine headlines? 

  First, let me just say one thing: how DARE you interrupt my evening? *sniff*
  
  It sounds like you don't think Kanye does anything when he produces his music! That's cool. I dunno, I guess I still rate him as a musician.
  
  

  Surely Kanye is like James Lavelle getting Shadow to produce his vanity project. Quincy Jones did the legwork for MJ. But MJ brought a lot more to the table than Kanye.

  
  ew. Never liked UNKLE stuff beyond some of the initial remixes, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO7YreRk6QA
  
  

  Quincy Jones did the legwork for MJ. But MJ brought a lot more to the table than Kanye.

  
  Imma be real with you: I literally just assume that when Kanye puts out a song that he is credited as producer and artist, he has some significant creative influence on what the songs end up sounding like. He actually seems like the type of person who finely pours over details and is a bit of a dick about it.
  
  I don't like some of the albums he's done over his career, but I think the collection of songs on Pablo are ahead of the game.
  
  Like, for example, take the number of elements on Ultralight Beam, including what seems to be a lot of new instrumentation and multiple vocal contributors/lyricists. Those people aren't collaborating without some direction. Their creative contributions are being directed by someone with a vision for the song/performance. That's how I always thought of Quincy as a producer (I haven't seen any docs on him, just based on interviews/etc again)... like a movie director, almost.  
  

  Or am I missing something here? Walk me through this and where exactly talent became paying for others to do the work.

  I think there can be great musicians who work on the level of themselves doing (mostly) everything, save for some guest performances. But there are also those who are great because they have a grander vision and still manage to kill it.
  

  

• Why So Quiet Around Here?

  ketan

  August 2016
  Summer vibes over here. I still czech on the regular, but trying to stay off the internet.  Working on a new mix - will poast by the end of the summer!

  

• Storing LPs Outside their Covers

  ketan

  July 2016

  If a record isn't going into the sleeve easily, and there's a cover sleeve in play, I'll just slip it in alongside the cover rather than in it.  So it's about laziness for me.  On some level, I'm sure I'm doing less damage to the opening over the cover by not trying to jam the record in there, but that's really beside the point for me.

  
  

  
  

  

• Tupac shirts

  ketan

  July 2016
  Ha!  Maybe it's from the hologram tour??

  

• Cell Phone Photo Strut - Post Some Random Pics

  ketan

  July 2016

  Beatnick Dee said:

  Sag champion. 

  His quads must be so underdeveloped!