If you don’t know about this dude. Please edumicate yourself. Thanks.
Apple Profile: Erykah Badu
Apple builds with Erykah on her new creative process that includes Garage Band, a MacBook and her Home studio.
“Making this album at home felt good,” Badu says. “I felt relaxed. I didn’t feel any pressure at all. I took my time. And in taking my time, things happened so quickly. I know that’s strange, but that’s how it happened. I didn’t have to go through the hustle and bustle and fuss of finding another engineer. I have a home studio, but I didn’t use it that much, because I was able to maneuver things by myself on the Mac. In four months, I had three albums—seventy-something songs and 20 to 50 more ideas.”
For New Amerykah, Badu laid freestyle vocals over tracks from producer 9th Wonder, who collaborated with producer James Poyser. “9th Wonder would send me a track and I would put some vocals on it, put a tambourine on it or something. Then 9th Wonder would IM it to James Poyser, who would put some keys on it. Poyser would IM it back to me, and I’d write a hook. I’d send it all to Mike Chavarria, and he would dump everything to two-inch tape to get a nice warm analog sound.”
Catch me at the Sputnik Beat Battle.
I’m not really into the whole producer battle thing but this one has got $$$ and a trophy involved (click the flyer for more details). HaHaHa. No this should be pretty fun. I’m going to try to bring all new joints, so we’ll see how it goes. I’m also debating whether or not to Read More
UPDATE: Make beats with iPhone.
After the last post about making music on the iPhone, I decided to to a search and I came across two nifty little iPhone Apps that actually let you make beats within the iPhone itself. The first is called mpc500 and looks amazing! (See image above on the left). It has 9 pads and I think you can even sequence with it. Read More
Make beats with iPhone.
I’m not exactly sure why anybody would actually want to do this with their phone but I guess its pretty cool to know that you COULD if you wanted to. For me it’s yet another incentive to go ahead and cop an iPhone. Read the instructions here. Read More
The Record Industry Keeps Getting Stupider.
So apparently, if your longing for mindless advertisements just isn’t fulfilled through TV Commercials, Billboards and Myspace ads, don’t worry. Now Sony BMG and the Geniuses at We7 will be putting 10 sec of ads before all of Sony’s digital catalog — For FREE. Sorry for theh sarcasm but its true. Sony is opening up their whole catalog to the public for free as long as you’re willing to put up with about 10sec of pre-appended ad space. Read more about this completey STUPID idea over at Big Arena Records. This really pisses me off. They really couldn’t care less about the art form.
Record Sales I mean VINYL sales are up!
No BS. Vinyl Sales went up an astonishing 46% last year which is pretty shocking. I though I was the only dude out here picking up vinyl of new Records. Guess not. Read the full story here at Wired Blog.
I keep saying this…
…but I really believe it — The Future is NOW and its call The ATTIGO TT.
Not much to explain here that the video doesn’t already show you. Peep: Read More »