My first single from the new album with @andthedropout is out today. Spent the last year working on these tunes, feels good to get it out. Full vocal with backup harmonies and instrumentation. Summer vibes on this one.
I’m working on a concept album with my friend @andthedropout who sings and plays saxophone & guitar. It has a lot of house music on it, but not all house. I’ve been able to experiment with many sounds I haven’t tried before. Really excited and having a fun time making it.
I want to hear "wise, old man rap" when rappers are like 50-60 and have a life's worth of vocabulary, song ideas, and rhythms to play with. Would imagine it would have more chill, mature beats and subject matter. Nas latest album made me think about this.
Bums me out that Daft Punk got in the studio with Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams and came out with "Get Lucky". Well made song, but imagine if they did it earlier in their careers and made music somewhere between "Good Times" & "Around The World".
When finishing a song, try mixing each group really well and saturating it, then export to a new project. You'll have less channels, fx, automation to remember and the saturation should make your groups more cohesive and boost harmonics that fill out the mix.
I've been watching tons of music documentaries & interviews. The people most interesting to me:
Nile Rodgers
Teddy Riley
Rick Rubin
Quincy Jones
Michael Jackson
Prince
Patrice Rushen
Brian Wilson
Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis
Max Martin
Jimmy Iovine
Stevie Wonder
Rod Temperton
I want to upload Rick Rubin’s book and transcripts of all his interviews to train an AI so I have a Rick Rubin to talk to about my projects and just chat in general.