Meeting of Minds
My album is called Meeting of Minds. Even though I am the main producer and writer on the album, I did my best to bring a variety of the talented people I know in on the project. It is representative of these partnerships as well as many less explicit partnerships. My journey through the world of music thus far has been amazing, and the majority of the time, I was not travelling alone. Meeting of Minds is not just the name of the album, it is an accurate desription of the album and my whole musical career to this point.
The title track got its name because it was the one track that best captures that spirit on it own. Sometime last year I was hanging out with a fellow MC, Godhead, and fellow MC/producers, Oo, More Deep and Mekz One. If I was forced to use one word to describe Oo in situations like that, it would be inquisitive. Oo loves to ask questions and learn about how other producers do what they do. As a direct result of his inquisitiveness, we were sharing our techniques. More Deep and Mekz One were showing me Fruity Loops, and I was giving them a demonstration of Reason, Cubase and my keyboard (E-Mu PK-6). Oo and I are strong proponents of sample free music. To demo my setup and to push the idea of self-sampling (cuz there ain't nothing wrong with sampling it if you made it in the first place), we decided to create a song in Cubase and Reason using Reason's NN-XT sampler to sample a guitar riff that Oo played. We recorded Oo playing a few riffs, picked one, cut the audio up into one-note segments, and created a new instrument in Reason with them. Oo also played the bassline and some other guitar. As a group we made the drums, came up with the music to be played, and arranged the parts.
That sounds real seriousd, but the session was far from it. At some point we got in a discussion about Punjab and we asked Oo to say some curses. (So what if we were acting young!) Somehow we ended up recording this and putting it at the very beginning of the song. (If you understand Punjab, let me apologize in advance for the things that are said) The song ends with audio recorded right after the curses when we started talking and I hadn't stopped recording yet. I thought it would help show a little of what the mood was like when we were making the song. In the middle, there is a roughly cut sound of someone counting in Spanish. that is More Deep. He was doing an impression of a cliche sound and when I heard it it just sounded right, so I told him to get in the booth and do it again. At some point during the session, Godhead left for a while. When he came back, he was completely lost because we were all wiling out, throwing "producer" jokes back and forth.
Meeting of Minds was just a bunch of guys hanging out acting silly. Somehow a song came out of that. Good times!
The title track got its name because it was the one track that best captures that spirit on it own. Sometime last year I was hanging out with a fellow MC, Godhead, and fellow MC/producers, Oo, More Deep and Mekz One. If I was forced to use one word to describe Oo in situations like that, it would be inquisitive. Oo loves to ask questions and learn about how other producers do what they do. As a direct result of his inquisitiveness, we were sharing our techniques. More Deep and Mekz One were showing me Fruity Loops, and I was giving them a demonstration of Reason, Cubase and my keyboard (E-Mu PK-6). Oo and I are strong proponents of sample free music. To demo my setup and to push the idea of self-sampling (cuz there ain't nothing wrong with sampling it if you made it in the first place), we decided to create a song in Cubase and Reason using Reason's NN-XT sampler to sample a guitar riff that Oo played. We recorded Oo playing a few riffs, picked one, cut the audio up into one-note segments, and created a new instrument in Reason with them. Oo also played the bassline and some other guitar. As a group we made the drums, came up with the music to be played, and arranged the parts.
That sounds real seriousd, but the session was far from it. At some point we got in a discussion about Punjab and we asked Oo to say some curses. (So what if we were acting young!) Somehow we ended up recording this and putting it at the very beginning of the song. (If you understand Punjab, let me apologize in advance for the things that are said) The song ends with audio recorded right after the curses when we started talking and I hadn't stopped recording yet. I thought it would help show a little of what the mood was like when we were making the song. In the middle, there is a roughly cut sound of someone counting in Spanish. that is More Deep. He was doing an impression of a cliche sound and when I heard it it just sounded right, so I told him to get in the booth and do it again. At some point during the session, Godhead left for a while. When he came back, he was completely lost because we were all wiling out, throwing "producer" jokes back and forth.
Meeting of Minds was just a bunch of guys hanging out acting silly. Somehow a song came out of that. Good times!
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