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More great stuff from YouTube - this reminds me of Napster, when it felt like you could download every piece of music ever made. You can almost hear the crowd of copyright lawyers battering down the doors of YouTube HQ as we speak...
1) Great Future Music-produced clip of Pete Rock on the MPC making beats here
2) Just Blaze talks you through his studio here
3) Staged 'making a beat' thing from MTV with Kanye West talking about Portishead here
3) Kev Brown cutting up samples and making beats. this one really makes me want to buy an MPC... here
UPDATE: Thanks to GearJunkies for pointing me towards Beat Making Videos Weblog, with links to loads of similar videos, including a great Pharrell Williams one. You can skip straight to the clips by clicking here.
Posted by Tom Whitwell.
Comments:
er is it just me or does that Kev Brown thing sound like a mess!!! the others made me wanna buy an mpc, that sure DIDNT
Great videos...Pete Rock is the man...Kev Brown just seemed to be having an off day - we've all been there before. The Heatmakers vid is just sad...they give all beat producers a bad name...you can tell they are focused more on the glory than the music itself...shame on them.
Did you guys listen to the very end of Kevs clip? They only ever really played a couple seconds of his final mix. He's working in his own little world while mixing. The editing was kind of crap on that.
I agree with the Triton comment - just because you've used all the presets doesn't mean the Triton is useless - it just means you need to learn how to take it to the next level. Perhaps buy some new sound boards - or run the Triton through an effects board for some really crazy modulation.
And if all you produce is sampled music, then you really have no place giving such advice. No matter how long Just Blaze produces beats, he'll always be just a DJ. I bet if you took away Scott Storch's Motif and left him with just his Triton, he'd make that Triton sound like the Boston Symphony.
'just a dj', boy that is the sorta phrase that has kept me from frequenting blogs and forums for the last 4 years and driven me from plenty of others. Because of course the sample just hasn't been instrumental in defining what hiphop is at all, huh? 'Just a dj' is the sort of sweeping statement that doesn't belong on MT, please people.