Incredibox is virtual beat-box flash app made by three French artists.
You basically drag different symbols onto a person’s (polo) shirt, and they begin to beatbox a certain instrument or melody. Once you drag a symbol onto one of the beatboxers, a new one will appear next to it, ready for another sound.
Check it out at incredibox.fr
you can hear more from the beatbox artist, The Incredible Polo via his myspace page.
Chi-King, a featured artist on HipHopProduction.com, has just dropped a new album, and you can support the cause by getting his new CD, “The Big Heist” featuring Fredro Starr, G-Dep, Stack A Doller, 100MAD, Marcus Elias and more.
If you have been paying attention to hip-hop production over the past decade, chances are you have at least heard of J-Dilla, a producer from Detroit who worked with Slum Village, Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Common and plenty more. He died in 2006 from a rare blood disease, and was basically been canonized as a saint of hip-hop production.
Now that all three parts of the J-Dilla Documentary by Stussy have been released, take some time to check them out. This three-part series covers J-Dilla’s life in Los Angeles. Check the links under the video for links to all three parts.
In case you don’t already know about Aziz Ansari, he’s a comedian that’s currently in a few tv shows and movies, including a recent stand-up special on Comedy Central. Anyways, to relate this to production, he has been working on a mixtape with Dave Sitek, and apparently is dealing with a common headache of production -- waiting on artists.
It sounds like he’s fed up with waiting on emcees for their lyrics, and decided to lash by leaking an early cut off his new mixtape. Most producers out there should be able to relate.
Links to the mp3 here on mediafire and usershare
And just to squeeze in one more Parks & Recreation production reference, here is the Parks & Recreation Screen Test featuring Questlove and RZA (and Aziz Ansari)
A little unrelated to hip-hop, but this should be interesting to any vinyl junkies and dustmites out there. Chris Supranowitz from The Insitute of Optics at the University of Rochester has taken some pictures of vinyl record grooves under an electron microscope. If you ever wanted to get a better idea of how the grooves on a record work, check out his final project.
Found via SynthGear
Calling all up-and-coming producers: Twista and M.O.P. are looking for beats for their upcoming albums.
Carl Terrell Mitchell, better known by his stage name Twista (formally Tung Twista), is an American rapper who once held the title of fastest emcee in the world, according to the Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 11.2 syllables per second. His 2004 album Kamikaze went to number-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart after the success of his number-one Billboard Hot 100 single “Slow Jamz.”
Send beats to Twista at: gmgentllc@gmail.com
Also, Billy Danz of M.O.P. posted a request for beats on his twitter feed.
Send beats to MOP at: beatsformop@gmail.com
Despite the ongoing arguments about whether vinyl is in or out, producers know the value of vinyl. It’s not just about the distinct sound, exclusivity, or the way a record feels and smells – this is a case where the total is greater than the sum of its parts. Vinyl represents the origin of many types of music and genres, unlike many other formats. It can even be used as an instrument itself.
Check out this short documentary from Nick Cavalier about Gotta Groove Records
found via Make Online
Yes, we’re still alive – and yes, there is plenty on the way. The next few posts will be reflecting on 2009, starting with a link from Hold The Throne.
Glad to see El Michels Affair, Radio, Kan Kick and even Sound Scientists mentioned! I’ll be checking out all of the names I wasn’t familiar with to start out the new year.
Before ProTools, MPCs and Sony Acid, the options for sampling and looping forced musicians to be a little more creative, not with just their music, but the process of recording as well. In this short excerpt from The Making of the Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd members discuss how the loop for “Money” was created. First, each sound was recorded directly to tape, then the tape was physically cut into 7 pieces of equal length, one for each sound effect. Those pieces of tape were spliced together, and the newly created roll of tape was fed into a Revox, and ran around a mic-stand.
and just for good measure, here is the original video of Pink Floyd -- Money
To follow-up the latest Sound Scientists release, we will be posting the rest of the albums in the catalog over the next few weeks. After getting a few requests for the first album, here is Raw Materials Volume 1, produced by Smoothbeats and Trioptic, and featuring Alter Ego (Niko & Nes) – now known as Damaged Goodz, True1, Porn Dogs, Stealth Entity, Naut (RIP), Question?, Vs-a-tyle and more. This originally came out in 2003, but had a very limited release. In fact, the file posted is not the retail copy of the album – it’s missing the intro, has an additional instrumental (“Art of Noise”), and the tracklist is a little out of order. Other than that, enjoy!
Download Links:
http://www.badongo.com/file/16052722
http://www.zshare.net/download/628099104b7875fd/
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LGN3GMXK
http://rapidshare.com/files/257024061/sound_scientists-raw_materials_vol1-2003.rar.html
