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  1. bigdmakintrax

    I Dont Understand....

    I have been making my tracks not just based on what I hear musically or what I feel should be in them, I make a lot of joints based on having already worked through a concept with an MC and having worked with at least 50-100 MC's over the last 5 years making tracks......you find out likes...
  2. bigdmakintrax

    How do you guys think Hip-Hop influences...

    Art imitates life, but art can be used to propagate false distortions of the realities of life especially when mass media is the tool and money drives their intent......weak minded individuals let some video or picture painted in songs guide how they act and react in real life...that is the problem.
  3. bigdmakintrax

    Thoughts And Processes As Relating To Mixing With Headphones

    Thoughts And Processes As Relating To Mixing With Headphones (How Not To Hang Yourself By Mixing With Headphones) by LXH2 headwize.com It can be easily demonstrated that doing your final mixes with headphones can produce stellar mixes when the mixing engineer is familiar with the...
  4. bigdmakintrax

    WHY THE HELL does studio people put the speakers's volume THAT HIGH??

    Yeah, but here goes another thing, at what volume do you make your beats? it makes a difference in getting the beat to sound exactly the same and also to feel the beat......some people are handicapped if they really cant turn up the volume on their monitors when they produce, it really does...
  5. bigdmakintrax

    is it acceptable to sample?

    Ok a lot of that even Predates DJ Shadow....LOL so he already knows about that...what I said is no secret, so if he is a student of the Game he knows all about it.....Daddio copywrote the phrase..."Go Brooklyn".......he also came a ways b4 DJ Shadow
  6. bigdmakintrax

    is it acceptable to sample?

    Yeah you probably right but thats been happening waaaaaaay before now, there were no laws and ethics.....study your hip hop some more.....soon as block parties came out with a DJ that found the best break for the rapper on their block.....every DJ in every hood would run out and try and make...
  7. bigdmakintrax

    MADLIB: Madvillainy and The Unseen

    Now that is some real Hip Hop talk....MF...he signed on Chris Kraft Shamanworks label, that is also where I got into the whole online beat battles I seen him on the come up but he is the Truth.....
  8. bigdmakintrax

    How many songs shoujld I put on a Beat CD Demo?

    exactly, the 2 people I work with that own their own production companies in NY get meetings just about anytime they want......it is who you know, but I was lucky enought to be in a position to have some of Rich Harrisons People listen to some of my joints at my lab in person, they thought I had...
  9. bigdmakintrax

    Blowing Up From The Basement

    Good Article, its the truth though, you have to build a local discography and work with artists, working with a good MC or singer will also help your music to grow also, not too many ways around that or else you are going to just be a hobbyist at this, nothing wrong with that but the main...
  10. bigdmakintrax

    Bush is gonna get me killed!!!

    It's crazy because back when the Cowboys were running around in the west the Indians only had Arrows....and some bartered rifles to fight back...but now damn they have missiles preprogrammed sort of like the Soviets did and still do also.....ok Fade where did you say you were? they might...
  11. bigdmakintrax

    is it acceptable to sample?

    Exactly, now your idea of how you sample gonna be different...as you know I sample pretty ol skool and I chopp the hell out of any my joints, Fade is on point.....I know a couple insiders and yes they sample other peoples drums and maybe other things, steal drums from protools sessions etc when...
  12. bigdmakintrax

    is it acceptable to sample?

    Exactly, I mean think about it....the original musicians for the most part thought that hey what are these stupid loopers doing with our music......I mean the first Classic song that got violated by a sampler crossed the line as far as original creativity was concerned back then, plus there...
  13. bigdmakintrax

    Bush is gonna get me killed!!!

    Hey look, the thing is I am not a communist but......Lenin said the capitalists will sell you the rope to hang them with.....China owns stockpiled trillions of dollars, if they wanted to call the united states for the notes used to back the dollars they have it would spark a huge conflict.....us...
  14. bigdmakintrax

    Eminem retiring

    2 things factoring into retirement nowadays and things you have to ask yourself.....if you really think for a minute either Eminem or Jay will retire at least over the next 2 years or so.....Jay gets on everything he can get on for the fun of it.....he has not stopped making records so really he...
  15. bigdmakintrax

    Culture and heritage...

    Class has all the bases covered just about, I mean I dunno but the original question was what is my cultural music.....I think any music made in the USA Since 1900 is open season as what I listen to and consider my music....even country music......... now I cannot answer for the other...
  16. bigdmakintrax

    Eminem Tour bus crash, Alchemist injured

    An Anger Management 3 tour bus whose passengers included Eminem's DJ, Alchemist, and the Detroit rapper's latest protégé, Atlanta's Stat Quo, collided with a pair of tractor-trailers just outside Odessa, Missouri, before overturning Wednesday night, triggering a six-vehicle pileup...
  17. bigdmakintrax

    Eminem Tour bus crash, Alchemist injured

    Damn too bad, I thought DJ Head was Eminems official DJ....
  18. bigdmakintrax

    quasimoto...WTF?!?!

    too bad, I mean I listen to all hip hop especially far left field not what you are calling backpack, Dan the automator, Thurston Howell III, cocoa brovas, yes Madlib, shobiz n AG.....Yes to understand hip hop, once upon a time there was abstract......Hip Hop Has no rules how many times have I...
  19. bigdmakintrax

    Sooo What are Your Current Projects????

    Yeah everyone has lots of stuff happening, the thing I wanna stress is I been at making beats since b4 99 and dabbled in it b4 that, LOL so just stay on your grind and you will get projects, I mean no one here is a pro, well maybe there is one or 2, so don't ever feel above an MC or artist for...
  20. bigdmakintrax

    Sooo What are Your Current Projects????

    Yeah the Label got those connections but DJ Dutch aka Stix is from Detroit Originally, but he has a lot of family in DC...
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