hip hop
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Resonant Thoughts: Roy Christopher’s “Dead Precedents” (2019)
“Underneath that odd veneer of mainstream schizophrenia, subgenres were splitting and dividing like brain-tumor cells. Enabled by recording and sampling technologies that eroded any semblance of cultural cohesion, forecasts of the future and pieces of the past were mixing into an unrecognizable new era.” – Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents, p. 18 (2019) Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 7: Master A Single Instrument
Dilla used just a single instrument to make his tracks. Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 6: Snare Drum Resonance Is Your Friend
Snare drum resonance is your friend. Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 4: Use Pulsating Sounds
Use pulsating sounds. Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 3: The Bass Can Walk Or Wander
The bass can walk or wander from the drum rhythm. Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 2: Contrast Dry With Atmospheric
Contrast the dry beat with an atmospheric keyboard sample. Continue reading
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Lessons From Dilla 1: High End Is Optional
Having high-end frequencies is optional: Do you need hi hats and cymbals? Does the kick need to be crisp or can it be muffled? Continue reading
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On The Beastie Boys And The Hip Hop Enculturation Of 1980s Suburbia
With the news last week that Beastie Boy member Adam Yauch (aka MCA) had died, I thought about the seismic impact hip hop had when it first burst the bubble of kids living in suburbia all over North America and beyond during the 1980s. As the producer Rick Rubin noted in a recent interview, “The Continue reading
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