Last night I was talking about my sister about how timeless Missy Elliot songs are, how they continue to sound futuristic no matter how long it’s been since they were recorded. It was true of “Work It” and it’s equally true of “Get Ur Freak On.” Click the image to see the video, since I [...]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
My quest to track down the origin of the most persistent recurring hip-hop memes brings me to this chant: The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don’t need no water, let the motherf***er burn The chant made its first appearance in the hip-hop canon in “The Roof Is On Fire” by Rock [...]
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Also tagged 50 cent, bizzy bone, bloodhound gang, digging the crates, eighties, funk, hip-hop, mandrill, mc serch, memes, p-funk, Politics, rock master scott, Sampling, talking heads
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Missy Elliot is one of the most futuristic electronic adventurers out there, especially in her collaborations with Timbaland. Yet her stuff is as hot and soulful as music gets. How does she do it?
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Also tagged blondie, breakdancing, digging the crates, eighties, hip-hop, pro tools, run-dmc, Sampling, timbaland
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DJ Kool Herc describes “Apache” by The Incredible Bongo Band as the national anthem of hip-hop. “Apache” includes a famous drum and percussion break that has reliably put bodies on the dance floor through hip-hop’s prehistory:
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Also tagged apache, breakdancing, copyright, dance, digging the crates, dna, double dee and steinski, drum n bass, drumming, Evolution, funk, goldie, grandmaster flash, hip-hop, history, kool herc, mashups, memes, nas, pop, questlove, roots, Sampling, seventies
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
I revere Björk above most other musicians. She knows how to balance the coldness of electronic production with hotly unpredictable vocals and instrumental textures. Not everybody loves Björk as much as I do; her approach is eccentric and her sound gets on some people’s nerves. It took me a couple years to be convinced by [...]
Filed in Composition, Key Musicians, Music, Recording
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Also tagged audio editing, bjork, depression, electronica, hipster, iceland, interface, lord of the rings, pro tools, Recording, remixes, Sampling, sequencing, timbaland, tolkien
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