January 2011
1 post
010: engineering....
Sometimes you have to back away from this blog stuff and actually do the stuff you write about afterwards. I write for more blogs than this one and the whole purpose of this one was listed eloquently in the first blog that I wrote. You can still read it at the bottom of the archive…. That being said, I’m in the lab working on lots besides S.H.A.R.K. BAIT and I’m back to blog a...
October 2010
1 post
post009: "no cities for old men who like rap"
Eyedea was found dead this past weekend, he died in his sleep. If you are reading this blog, you probably know exactly who he was and the legacy he left behind. The crazy thing is that in his passing, he will be looked at as the poster boy for all things battle rap related and anyone remotely associated with him will be placed under the same microscope as him. People are going to look at every...
June 2010
1 post
post008: REDACTION: "internet chess, friends, and...
While working on this record, I definitely ran the race in trying to get guests on it. It’s considerably harder to expect verses from folks nowhere in your daily life and in other countries. I mean, I like working with people and I also love to hear tracks that sound like some stuff that is greater iller than the stuff made by the people involved in it’s creation. When I was young, I...
May 2010
2 posts
post007: monopoly money (oh, I mean "recording...
This one is all about the idea of being paid for your work. While a controversial subject rife with different opinions about who, what and where the money should go to and when, no one seems to remember the last and most important thing here and that is WHY. Steve Albini wrote a very good article on the whole breakdown of your money if you are on a major label circa the mid-late 90’s and...
post006: tempo sets modes.
While working on drums for the new ish, I get whipped over the head with all these tempo combos based on math and such. I trip out because in my time of rapping over other folks production, I have ripped every tempo between 56 and 145, This is to the nearest decimal place that you can come up with. And while hip-hop/rap is a linguistically viral medium, (meaning that, while you can use any...
April 2010
1 post
post005: your world, my mic booth
I always wondered why there was some sort of an industry standard in the recording of pop-music quality rap vocals. One time I remember Brother Jay from X-Clan told me that he wanted to hear me on a 10,000 dollar mic and then see what I came up with. I didn’t think that was a diss and I still don’t, I felt like he was on a thing where we all needed to be on some pro level shit in order...
March 2010
4 posts
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post004: library crew AKA bargain blog raiders
this isn’t about my old rap group, although my old deejay put me up on this fun new hobby! in a effort to look for music and stay motivated in this super shifting counter culture, I started exploring various blogs in the hopes of finding some “old-new shit” to flip for these new seasons. not unlike fashion designers trawling second hand/vintage stores and estate sales for...
post003: standing waves or sit and wave?
I’m all about noises. I like them very much and can tolerate them at all sorts of frequencies that may be terminal to some animals and creatures of the night. Out of all these divergent frequencies, I favor bass tones above all. I also like the real lizard sounding synth patches that some dude from Central Europe or Legowelt basically DOES at will. I personally think that analog synths are...
post002: the composition of an introduction,...
ever since my first solo cassette tape in 1998, I have always incorporated an introduction on every record that I have ever made. it is almost a mark of approval or completion or something. over the years, I have done many, many records both alone and with friends. not everyone is necessarily into the whole “intro/outro” thing, so you may hear all sorts of things.
now that I am...
post001: this is what it is.
I made this blog to talk about my new record and how I intend to make it. Instead of tripping off of not having enough money to make a record, I’m going to make it with all the resources available to me and present the result as any other record. The only difference is that I’m leaving out the story in the liner notes. I’ll put stuff on here like samples I flip, (both to keep track and to show how...