Cookin Soul & Don Cannon, Nas – The Lost Tapes 1.5

There is nothing like a dope remix project and since Def Jam may never let the Lost Tapes 2 see the light of day we’ll take this dope 1.5 from Don Cannon and Cookin Soul.

NAS – THE LOST TAPES 1.5 REMIXTAPE
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Common F/ Talib Kweli & Marvin Gaye “The Light” (Remix)

Over the weekend I was out driving and Jill Scott’s “He Loves Me (Lizel In E Flat) came on the radio and the intro kept playing over in my head for the rest of the day. This happens to me about several times a day but I usually forget by the time I get home. This loop was stubborn though.

When I finally got home to the comp I clipped it off the end in Audition, ran it through the Fruity slicer, quantized it and chopped it. I played around with some drums and liked the way the Barry White kick and snare sounded but I wanted to play with the pattern some more. So I exported all of the parts using Slicex and placed them in the “pads” of the FPC to make a more unique pattern.

After that I made about 5 more different segments with various chops and drums and stashed them until I was ready to sequence. After playing the beat for about ten minutes I pitched up the sample and added some filters to differentiate it from Jill’s composition a little bit. Then I started hearing voices on the beat, so I went through my acapellas and Common’s “The Light” seemed to go with the whole thing so I matched two verses up to the beat and left it alone.

A few days later I came back to it and decided it needed a hook so I went hunting in my acapellas for someone professing their love to their woman and found the Marvin Gaye acapella to “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby.” I chopped it up and isolated the pieces I wanted to use to create a phrase and that became my hook.

From there the song felt short so I added Talib’s verse from “Hot Thing” (which was a pain in the ass to match up until I realized the acapella was fubar.) And that was it. I’ll dub this one the “Heaven On Earth” remix.

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Mos Def Meets The Jetsons On “Mathematics” Remix

A few weeks ago I posted two versions of a beat using the Jetsons theme music as a sample. As I do with most of my beats I test them out with an acapella to see how they sound and I really liked how Mos sounded over this particular flip so I whipped this up real quick.

Crazy thing indeed.

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In The Lab With K-Salaam & Beatnick

In part 1 of my interview with K-Salaam & Beatnick I got them to speak on why Pro Tools is better than an MPC and their process for making a remix. Download their new mixtape, Never Can Say Goodbye, HERE.

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Bloggin 4 Beats: Styles P “My Life” Remix/Blend

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