Dorkus wrote:when it comes to making beats I could think of at least 50 people other than Madlib whom I would want to take lessons from, or consider a teacher. I sample from vinyl too, and mp3's t.v. ect...I dont need a teacher for that. People make too big of a deal about diggin' like it makes them intelligent or mystical or whatever the fuck. It's very simple, youre sampling from an ext audio source and then composing on your sampler. Dont make it out to be anymore complex than that cus it's not. Ive been making beats this way for 13 years. Before it became a fad.
Dont take this the wrong way but, if it was as simple as you say I think you'd be right up there with Madlib and all the other known beat makers.
^and what makes you think that? is there a shortage of producers? I think theres people in this forum who maks iller beats than Madlib. So everyone that deserves recognition gets it? I think not.
Dr Van Nostrand wrote:since when is it all about choppin and stuff thought?? these are the dudes that helped created the the ways of beat making that we all know today, they were the progression, and there is more to beat makin than just choppin shit up and rearrangin it, and just cause blogs and youtube blow up sample sources, people start to realize that sometimes these dudes just don't chop, but madlib is like a music teacher man, he's a big reason why alot of us really do what we do and like what we like, he made me realize that i can learn the same shit off of other hip hop as i did off of him, he's like a musical curator you know, just cause everybody seems to ride his dick doesn't mean you can't appreciate the music he makes, he's schoolin us on the music of the past so that we can know and build on it
+1
does anyone on here listen to any of the Yesterday's Universe shit? He does play all the instruments.
Madlibs YNQ shit is crazy, madlib is one of my favorite producers, but ive been taking a look at the samples he's using, and yea, he does a whole lot of looping, not just grabbing an open break and looping it, but like taking the whole shit, the drums and all, looping it, maybe speeding it up or slowing it down, and calling it his own. A good example of this is One Beer off of DOOMs MM... Food LP.
If it sounds dope the way it is, there's no need to add extra shit. Thats been going on since the birth of Hip Hop, from Kool Herc to RZA to Madlib. Nothing new but head nod music
