I'm making a lot of beats again, probably because I've been
listening to tons of rap and reading Sylvain Bertot's excellent book
about Indie Rap (at Le Mot Et Le Reste Edition, 2014).
The fact that two
of my beats were used in a documentary about a fine street-artist
named BMX also helped motivating me (I'll share the link to the video
as soon as it's officially released)
Here are 3 beats made in the last week or so.
''Lonely Blue Returns'' is a traditional boom-bap track which
samples Aretha Franklin's ''Nobody Like You'', which I had already
used for one of my very first projects, Lonely Island, back in 2000
or something. I think it's the 1st time I go back to a
sample like that, maybe you noticed I'm feeling a bit nostalgic
music-wise.
''Orange Meow'' is completely different. I'm playing the guitar
and the electric bass over the sampled drums. The only other sample
is the cat's meow, which I simply took from the internet. This track
is obviously inspired by some of the music Lou Barloh used to do with
his Sentridoh project, as well as some Buck 65 although I'm just
starting to get into his 2001 album Man Overboard on Anticon.
''Things We Used To Do'' samples Jimmy Scott's cover of ''Almost
Blue'' by Elvis Costello, one of the best songs ever in my opinion.
If you don't know Jimmy Scott and like vocal jazz you should give him
a try because he is a very original singer. Scott has a disease which
prevented his voice from breaking, which added to his chain-smoking
gave him a very particular tone. Back when images of singers were
scarce everybody thought it was a woman singing. He is also famous
for his elongated wording and timing. I know Ray Charles produced his
1st album (of which I'm not particularly fond of by the
way) and that he was Lou Reed's favorite singer ever since he had
heard him sing at a common friend's burial.
I sampled the piano introduction, + a couple phrases from later in
the song, to add some variety. Electric bass + a couple vinyl
scratches and that's about it.
Listen / Download HERE
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