EXCLUSIVE: Nodfactor Interview With Apollo Brown
May 29, 2010
Pretty much what the title says. While Apollo Brown was in town for his Fat Beats in-store we caught up with him for a really dope interview. In this first part the mad man from Michigan plugs his latest project The Reset and gets into how he started making beats on Windows Voyetra software and how he makes his remixes using nothing but Cool Edit 2000.
“I use Cool Edit 2000 with no multitrack…I have like 30 windows open..” - Apollo Brown
Splinter In My Mind: Reakwon’s “Lizz” Sample
May 28, 2010
So I was at the listening for Raekwon’s mixtape Cocainism 2 with some of my brothers in arms, Chuck Creekmur (@chuckcreekmur,) Mr. Mecca(@MrMecc,) Datwon Thomas (@daydog) and The Blackspot (@TheBlackspot). The mixtape is full of dope cuts, Rae even took the beat from the Wu-Tang Shoalin style video game and rhymed over it (“Just For Laughs”). But we experienced a collective “What the fuck is that sample?” moment when he dropped the DJ Scratch produced “Lizz.”
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It was one of those splinter in your mind, tip-of-your-tongue-you-know-you’ve-heard-it-before-but -can’t -quite -place it right away moments. After some fumblings we all agreed that Lizz shared some musical DNA with Slick Rick’s “Behind Bars.”
From that point it was only a point of checking out the resource of all resources, the-breaks.com, to figure out what wonderful melody (that I’m assuming was produced by Warren G) was responsible for all of us making “the face.” And there it was, Les McCann’s “Somtimes I Cry.”
Diggers know Les McCann’s music is responsible for some of the hottest beats out so this didn’t come as a surprise. What threw me off personally was the woman singing on Raekwon’s version, had me thinking it was a Minnie Ripperton joint but that was not the case.
Anyway, head on over to XXLmag.com or Nahright and download a copy of Cocainism. It’s worth the bandwidth.
Also peep Rae reuniting with his brethren Matty C and Scott Free from Loud Records:
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Flud Making Limited Editon Roc Raida Watch
May 27, 2010
@itsseanc just tweeted this. Dope looking time piece and proceeds will go to his family.
The Alchemist On Grind Music Radio
May 27, 2010
The Alchemist recently appeared on Sean C & LV’s Grind Music Radio. During the interview he speaks about working under Soul Assassins DJ Muggs, hooking up with “Mobb’s little homies” The Infamous Mobb (G.O.D. Part III, Ty Nitty, Twin Gambino), how “The Realest” came about, and the record he feels changed his career.
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The Tweets Is Watching: Ryan Leslie x Asher Roth?
May 27, 2010
Whoa! Hit producer/writer/artist/marketing genius Ryan Leslie just posted that he’s been locked up in the studio with Asher Roth for the past few days. I can’t even imagine what the outcome of the collaborative efforts would sound like but I hope we all find out in the very near future. Within the past couple weeks we’ve learned that Roth has been working with Nottz and now R Les. Is this all for his sophomore album? I don’t know, but it definitely will be a project to look forward to if these producers are on there.
VIDEO: Reason 5 Live Sampling
May 27, 2010
Remember the time when samples were something you sampled and not loaded from your hard drive? When a sampler was a machine that could record samples, not just play them back.
As samplers became software instead of machines, they came to rely on external sample editing software for recording and editing the samples and the art of spur-of-the-moment creative sampling was pretty much lost. Now we are bringing it back to Reason 5 with its live sampling input.
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Orisue And XXL Illmatic Remix Contest
May 26, 2010
XXL and Orisue clothing are sponsoring an “Illmatic” remix contest. Fashawn, member of the 2010 Freshmen is slated to drop his “Ode to Illmatic” mixtape on June 9th. The mixtape wil feature the winning “remix” as a bonus track. The guidelines are as follows, producers wishing to submit must remix or sample any track from Nas’ debut album, Illmatic. The remixed track must be emailed to [email protected] by June 2, 12 p.m. PST. The winner will be announced on Orisue the following day. Good luck.
Scott Storch Talks About Detox & Dr. Dre With DJ Skee
May 24, 2010
Super producer Scott Storch has his first sit down interview in over a year with DJ Skee. Storch talks about being in Los Angeles for the past few months working on Dr. Dre on Detox, if Detox is really coming out & producing the first single “Under Pressure” featuring Jay-Z.
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit (K-Salaam & Beatnick Rmx)
May 21, 2010
Now I had to post this being a kid from the beach I definitely fux with Nirvana. This remix is amazing and I got word that they will be doing a Nirvana contest sometime in the near future so def keep an eye out for that.
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Bloggin 4 Beatz: Happy Birthday Pacman
May 21, 2010
Man, I had no idea today was the 30th anniversary of Pacman. Had I known I ‘d have put this beat up first, but here it is from my “Second Childhood” 80s beat series. Happy Birthday Pacman!!
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