People Under the Stairs rockin some new beats, soon to be followed by another album - "Carried Away!"
I’ve been a huge People Under the Stairs fan fo’eva! Their new album “Fun DMC” rocks. It’s not just an homage to the old school styles of the East Coast (see “GrandMaster Flash, DJ Kool Herc, et al.) It holds a spectrum of brand new ideas that PUTS have been growing since their “O.S.T” release. The rhymes are upbeat to say the least, with a laid back take on their fame and fortune. They have seemed to relax more since the Om records days, when they seemed devoted more to the battle rap.
But where this album shines, in my opinion, is the huge amount of samples that Thes One and Double K have used as a basis for their swinging rhymes. These guys have never stopped diggin.’ And still they use samples that make music freaks go “HMMM!!” In the quest for NOS beats, these guys really take the cake.
My little sampler does a lot, but it won't choose the music for me.
Man, I love my MPC-500. It feels really good to have all that musical ability and quality right there at my fingers. It is like a really fine paintbrush or something artsy like that. But the darn thing does not do one thing for me: choose the music for me.
I consider the whole sonic universe to be spectrum for sampling. My aesthetics keep me from “biting” however. This means stealing someone elses chops. Now if there is a beat that I like and can’t figure out how to follow it, I may take a whole rhythm section, but I will layer the hell out of it.
Check out these quotes from some giants of sampling. DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin and Chuck D among others go on the record talkin’ ’bout samplin’.
On a seperate note, Outta has been excepted into a gallery display of blogs, because they think we are so really cool. Thanks We Love WP! (Yes, this is a shameless campaign to get my blog readership up.)
