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Beat This!The next Beat This! Competition is from November 27-28th!
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Who am I not listening to, but should
That was a great list of artists, Equality...I'm into pretty much all that stuff. Also, check out Dj Cam [from France] Dj Krush Cannibal Ox Aesop Rock The Postal Service Dj Food MF Doom Skalpel Dj Spooky Dj Vadim [from the UK] Dr Octagon [aka Dan The Automator]- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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A day in the studio with...
Dj Shadow, RJD2, The RZA and Madlib.....Simply because I love the music these people make. -
Timeless Joints
There are soooooo many.... Anything by The Beatles Anything by Queen Anything by James Brown 'Purple Haze' - Jimi hendrix [..and pretty much everything else he did actually] 'Eye Of The Tiger' 'Bring The Noise' - Public Enemy 'Whats Going On?'- Marvin Gaye 'Come Clean' - Jeru The...- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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What usually drives your reason for creating a beat?
Definately an interesting point - I probably woulnd't describe myself as an artist if someone asked, but I love art - I'm always drawing, sketching, messing about in photoshop, writing graffiti in lessons, taking stupid pictures with a shit camera...just like beatmaking, I enjoy creating things... -
one of the hottest beats ever
Thats definately a tight beat, infact if someone had given me a description of it before hand I don't think it would have appealed but thats a hot beat, and heavy on the soul which is nice. EDIT - Why the hell am I on here again at 4:44 in the morning?- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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You guys ever work on music besides hip hop?
I play the drums in a instrumental/funk/ambient/rock band with 3 other friends - we spend most of our time just jamming/improvising without writing anything down - its all really casual. I love being able to work like that, everything is just spur-of-the-moment and you play whatever you... -
How to produce a bombass beat
I almost always have an idea in my head before I start, with build up and change-ups included and when I start working I'm just working until it sounds like the idea in my head. At other times I'll be listening to something and if it catches my ear I'll either sample it or simply be inspired... -
Who's the hottest battle rappa?
I also feel its extremely sad that a derogatory term is used to label those who use a wider range of vocabulary, who talk about differnt topics and who have different styles. I'm not an MC - but as far as I know having a large and varied vocabulary, the ability to talk about something...- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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Who here still reads the source
I just don't read any HipHop magazines, I have difficulty finding anything other than the Source so I don't buy anything - I would if I found a magazine which covered stuff other than was in the charts and with consistently interesting articles - but for now it's the internet.- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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What if....
I completely agree with you on all of that...And there are a hell of a lot of artists out there that are sick of gun talk, bragging about ho's etc though....Quite a lot of underground cats are doing whole albums without mention of those kinds of topics - even groups like Dilated Peoples try to...- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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Who's the hottest battle rappa?
Mr Lif. 'Night Train Radio Freestyle' being a reasonably example. The guy would slaughter.- Lex
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Sages new album on Epitaph - Pretty Dope.
Thats by no means a bad thing, lol...I'd have to say most of my favourite albums are instrumental ones - sometimes I can't help but feel that some things are more powerfull/beautiful when there are no vocals, it leaves the listener to interpret the song by themselves a lot more. I'm checking...- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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Sages new album on Epitaph - Pretty Dope.
He's complete legend, although he's on Ninjatune..[I'm sure you knew that, lol] I kinda like all those heads too - Dj Vadim, The Herbaliser etc. and they have some strange heads on there doing a combination of electronic and jazz and stuff [Jaga Jazzist, Cinematic Orchestra]- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement
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Sages new album on Epitaph - Pretty Dope.
I have to say I really like what most of the Anticon people are up too - The MC as much as the producers really. Anyone heard of Jel? He did a lot of production for Sage [Personal Journals, sick Of Waging War] He's got two completely instrumental albums out which are really interesting -...- Lex
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MUST READ: Sun Ra (Robert Franza's 1989 Interview)
I was listening to 'The Futuristic Sound Of Sun Ra' yesterday, just trying to imagine what kind of thought process could lead to such amazing sounds and feelings and that kind of explained it all. I already knew a bit about Sun Ra and some of his views/visions etc but reading that really has...- Lex
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Is there a better reverb plug-in for Cubase SX?
Aight - Cubase SX3 which hasn't been out all that long apparently has a really good reverb plugin that comes with it, but I guess not many people will have that [I know I wont be purchasing it any time soon] There a whole load of reverb plugins using convolution technology [look it up, I... -
"Mastering Compression" Article
Well it most certainly is up to what you think sounds better. You can apply multiband compression or just 'regular' compression to anything from single hits, to drum patterns to whole mixes - but thats to do with mastering. Mulitband compression could be used for example when you think only a... -
UK Stand UK
LOL, where as there are absolutely none in the whole of kent....ah well.- Lex
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- Forum: The Basement