12/10/09
12/3/09
::: Download :::12/2/09
Producer: Good Ear
::: Good Ear :::Click on the pick to check out some of Good Ear's music. For buying one of my shirts, I will show my gratitude with some feedback.
GoodEar claims to be influenced by MF Doom, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. I checked out the music, and I think that is very evident. You can def hear the influences in the audio.
Funky Skunk:
Very atmospheric. Nothing I would roll around the car listening too. But I def her the work put into the arrangement.
Curiously Vicarious:
Not my style musically. But, it's a decent chop. The focused angle of the content regarding the emcee it def props worthy. The kicks are kinda heavy and the samples used and layered I don't think really compliment the subject matter. But again, the focus on the subject matter by the emcee is something I don't see a lot of in today's music.
Dark Chocolate:
Same thing here as I heard with Funky Skunk. A lot of atmosphere. With instrumentals, they tend to remind me of abstract or landscaped paintings. The composition is the most important part. So the question is, when you have music like this, you need a little more than mutes. Throw some panning and reverbs and echoes in there and you will give the listener a heavier experience. Sort of like DJ Shadow and other artists that build up tracks.
Azul:
Cool samples to work from. Beat needs some meat though. Like if you wanted to hum this song to yourself, you couldn't cuz it feels like there is no main melody.
Vibe Reverse:
Dope beat. Nice chop. just EQ and clean up the mix and separate some of the sounds so make it a little less muddy, and this would be a dope ass track.
M Fingers:
Very nice chop. I like the bass drops too. This beat doesn't need anything else besides some engineering polishing. Maybe some EQ to really bring out those keys.
Right There:
Don't like the beat and the vocal treatment. But I like the mental leaking in the lyrics. I think mental lyrics are the best because they aren't empty.
RentAKnight:
Nice sample to begin with. Very nice chop. Probably my favorite beat on the page.
11/30/09
Mechs 001
I love the art and design that goes into Mechs. This is a pretty cool one I have come across. I'm looking forward to the day they have a mech movie with designs like this with the quality you see in a Transformers series. I think as computers get faster, it will be like in about 10 years that kids will have the ability to produce movies with effects at that level of quality.
11/29/09
Is You Gay Dawg
::: Funny Album Covers :::My fav was probably the "Can I Borrow A Feeling" album cover.
I got this one from my boy Po'Safe...
11/25/09
MPC T-Shirt Design 002
This is another design I am playing with. Not sure if I want to press this up quite yet. This would be a 3 color job. And I can change the plate colors but this one would be white, gray and black.
What do you guys think?
11/23/09
MPC T-Shirt Design 001
I am printing up some 2500 shirts. I am also working on some 1000's.
Let me know what you guys think. They are silk screened so they are the professional quality you will find like on a GAP or Old Navy silk screened t-shirt. But I am currently printing on different kinds of shirts to narrow it down to the best kinds of shirts to print on. This first batch were on Jerzee and Champion shirts. But I might also try Anvil and American Apparel.
The reason why I started making these is because people are always hitting me up for artwork but can't afford the artwork. So shirts are a lot cheaper and probably a little more fun to wear. I get tired of wearing the generic headphone and cassette tape shirts I find at Old Navy so I am going to start making my own shirts. I figured I'd offer them to other heads that want more producer oriented clothing.
Get at me man.
Let me know what you guys think. They are silk screened so they are the professional quality you will find like on a GAP or Old Navy silk screened t-shirt. But I am currently printing on different kinds of shirts to narrow it down to the best kinds of shirts to print on. This first batch were on Jerzee and Champion shirts. But I might also try Anvil and American Apparel.
The reason why I started making these is because people are always hitting me up for artwork but can't afford the artwork. So shirts are a lot cheaper and probably a little more fun to wear. I get tired of wearing the generic headphone and cassette tape shirts I find at Old Navy so I am going to start making my own shirts. I figured I'd offer them to other heads that want more producer oriented clothing.
Get at me man.
11/20/09
11/19/09
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11/11/09
::: Free Download :::11/10/09
11/9/09
::: Silent Funny :::The Art of Flipping Samples
This is why Primo is my favorite. And why I love Hip Hop so much. I wish I had the ear to flip samples the way this guy does. If you like this, def subscribe to the channel and check out all the other beat videos they have. Great inspiration for beat makers out there.
11/8/09
Sick with the Foam
::: Foaming at the Mouth :::This is why I want to learn how to use this foam and learn how to use fiber glass. Click the pics to see more pictures of the process. If I know how to do this, I would never buy a new car. I would just roll the same old Honda and change the body style like every 2 years. And I would buy a bunch of older cheap cars and transform them into exotics.
11/7/09
The Farside
::: Darkside :::When I was a kid I used to read the Farside books all the time. I guess the guy who did this cartoon does funny cartoon mashups among other things. Click the picture to see more.
Artwork: LaDainian Tomlinson Prints
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::: Buy You One :::11/6/09
Dr. Dre is the Greatest
::: Dr. Dre :::I'm gonna point out what eMiNeNT D0M@iN is trying to say.
DRE is def top 3 if not number one as far as producing goes. But... a lot of his work, sampled based, is a straight rape of the original. Which is why I like Primo more than I like Dre. Primo will FLIP something. In other words he will take something that you would never think a beat can be made out of, and turn that shit into something ILL. Like Jeru's Come Clean.
A lot of Dre's work, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, is just a polished version of the original sampled material. I don't hear what I would call a FLIP.
But like yall said.... THAT IS HIP HOP.
There is nothing wrong with that. Some of the best beats work that way. Like Das EFX They Want EFX. Staright Guitar Watson sample. Not much done to it but lopped it up. There is no way to measure how much someone flipped something. I am just saying that I tend to give a little more credit to someone who completely transformed something into something hot than to someone who took something that was ALREADY DOPE, and just polished it.
NO I.D. had this sample flip exercise where he challenged all of us to flip some Nautilus and naturally, the producers who really took the samples far left or right got the most props because they showed some real skill and creativity in really FLIPPING it. Everyone came out with some very different arrangements.
But at the end of the day... all that seems to matter to people is how it sounds. They don't care that it is a straight loop with some kicks and snares over it. They don't care if it was a completely original arrangement hand played by the producer. They don't care that an unknown producer arranged it, to have it bought by a FAMOUS Producer who then gets to take the credit. They don't care if the producer hired a violinist because the producer cannot play a violin.
They just want to know if it is worth listening to in their car or iPod.
11/5/09
::: Buy This Print :::Wizard Music
::: Magically Free :::Wizard - Massage Parlour Music (Free Download)
01. Relax
02. Shank
03. Noodle Crack
04. Sakura
05. The Chase
06. Crazy Village
07. Wilding
08. Chicken & Rice
09. Hey!
10. Master
11. Tradition
12. Swinging Swords
13. Crab Technique
14. Final Boss
15. Rum Music (Bonus Beat)
16. Why (Bonus Beat)
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::: Kerong :::11/4/09
Story: My Dad
::: Is Cooler Than UR DAD :::Funny story... but it is one of those "you had to be there to really understand how I almost sharted myself funny" stories.
My pops put in 20 plus years into the Air Force. So he retired and was getting it in over at Home Depot. While he was working someone rolled up on him and was like, "Hey... you wanna get paid to take some pictures." My pops was like, "Yo... I don't even get down like that." Dude was like, "it's all legit, 300 a day, meet me at Dillards." My pops is all about his paper so he did it. So they put him in a baker outfit and took his picture. but he had no idea what is was for. I guess my Mom was jowning on him because he wore his make up all day. A month later, we see the picture. Which is hilarious in an of itself if you knew how my Dad is. He is a man's man. If it's broke, he'll fix it... with his huge banana hands.
Right after my wife and I got married, we went to Maui for our honeymoon. A vacation that I am still trying to pay off today. While we were flying on the plane, she was looking at this Southwest magazine and my subconscious saw something out of the corner of my eye.
And BLAAAAAOW!
There it was. The final ad. I don't know if I ever laughed any harder. I grabbed all the copies I could and gave them to my pops.
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