Cymande - Early 70's funk
Cymande’s notable contributions to the world of music have been sampled by De La Soul, Masta Ace, and The Fugees among others. Cymande’s music fills a niche of funk with the likes of War and Mandrill. But Cymande is probably the lesser known of this type of funk. It combines world-wide elements of reggae and jazz, which becomes a very chill kind of funk music. Really great for just sitting back and listening on the hifi or some good headphones.
For more on Cymande:
Wikipedia – Cymande
Flea Market Funk – The Message
Kid Cudi
I really hate it when I can’t get something I want. I know, that is some selfish shit. But when it comes to music, I don’t take it easy!
A good example of this is the Kid Cudi mixtape. You can’t download it from the filesharing sites anymore. I know that it means that two things happened: either copyright infringement from someone biting or there was nobody downloading. But I really doubt that last scenario.
I really like the Kid Cudi stuff. It is pretty new to me. But more than that, The production is just plain nuts!! You can still listen to the Mixtape here. By the way, if you have been reading these posts, you will know that I highly recommend Audio Hijack Pro to jack this if you can’t download it ;)
So you might remember how the early Neptunes music made you happy and at the same time seemed to impart some intelligent use of samples and synths. Well the Cudi tape does that, but with a feeling like there will not be a chance of sellin’ out. Poor Neptunes, you might say (although I don’t know why you would say that if you thought about how much they sold out for!) But this is really what the Neptunes woulda put out if they didn’t buy that Hollywood crap. And he has a great sense of humor, plus lots of melodies.
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.)
In the Lab. Turntables, computer, mixer in the drawer, lots of stereo components. And last - but definitely not least - some vinyl.
After learning about MJ’s death, I realized I hadn’t listened to his music for awhile. Travesty, I said to myself. My wife has a fair amount of his music in her collection, so I took out my favorites. What could I do to have the music more immediate? I wanted to listen to some of his songs to really break ‘em down for the beats and rhythms. I listen to a lot of my music on my computer (and my iPod.) It is easy to drop and play music on the Pod. But I really like to have music digitally for sampling too.
This is where the program Audio Hijack Pro comes in. It allows to just jack in my mixer to my computer and burn a lossless recording to the harddrive. I liiiikkke it!
