Thoughts on Beat Production - Odd Nosdam

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“On the first cLOUDDEAD there’s not much going on. The beats aren’t very long and that’s because of the limitations of the way I was making music. I had a Dr. Sample and a cassette 8-track. I couldn’t sequence. I had to do everything by ear. For me to make a two-minute beat meant I recorded the beat for two minutes or however long I needed, then tried to find drums that would sync up to that loop and hopefully the drums would last for the two minutes of that beat. Usually I’ll run a drum track through the compressor then back into the 8-track and overdrive the trim to get a nice extra crunch. A lot of the drums on the new cLOUDDEAD were done that way. The input coming back into the 8-track from the compressor and I turn the trim up a lot. Then I find some things in the same key I can add that will make it a bit fuller. Jel and Alias, their drum programming is way better than mine. I’ve always looked up to those guys as far as their drum sounds. Maybe my stuff was strong in texture, but not as strong in drum programming. If you are a musician, if you are an artist, I think that you have to just accept the things that you can and can't accept about yourself and just be who you are. That's the biggest lesson I've learned in my life. I don't play instruments. I use records and it's all based on found sounds. That's what I make music with. I would go to swap meets and thrift stores and come back with a car full of records and just crank out beats. That was kind of my process: 'What can I make with these five records?' Stuff like No More Wig for Ohio, there's an example of what happens when I sit down with a new stack of records and my sampler. To me that's what it's all about: finding these records that have the coolest little sounds on them."
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Thoughts on Beat Production - Jel

Jel>>>
"As I've been playing the drum machine live [Akai MPC 2000] it's kind of altered how I make music in the room, too. I just want to play everything. Instead of just doing a four bar loop or chunks of four bar sequences, I just want to play a full sixteen bar thing in. I'll sequence them if it's really technical but most of the time I'm just trying to play it in, then [I] add extra stuff as it's looping. I'll get a break and each hit of the drum I try to completely chop it up into hi-hats, kick, snare, everything that sounds different. Then I'll try to recreate it or create a whole different break. Trying to recreate that break definitely taught me how to drum with the drum machine. I think a big step for me, and the way I write music, was I would make a song that could work as an instrumental. I would finish the song before anyone would rap on it. Dose will give me a loop of something that he thinks sounds cool and I'll make a beat around that, then he'll add to it. It's been rare that he hasn't had something written. With his words it's in his head how he wants it delivered. But we'll compromise."
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