13th April 2005
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Thread Starter | The development of hip-hop sound & engineering
Taking this out of the hip-hop drum samples thread to go off topic (sent it as a PM to Darius, but am posting it at his suggestion): Quote: |
Originally Posted by T. Tauri Quote: |
Originally Posted by Darius van H tt, i was really talking about the technical skills of the engineers to communicate thru various mediums (radio, CD, vinyl, in clubs) to the audience...not really about the style or vibe of the music..whether you like old or new rap is a question of taste......maybe this distinction is too subtle....i dunno.....i think it's important for an engineer to be able to seperate out (in his or her mind) between music they like and music they think is technically accomplished.....and to be aware of how one impacts on the other.  | I dunno. I remember the first time I heard Eric B & Rakim dropped in a club (aka first time I heard them period)... and the effect was like:  .
There was a *sound* to hip-hop in those days that stood out, and you just knew it when you heard it, and to me that's one hell of an accomplishment. It rewrote the sonic template like crazy. S'like: I don't hear anything about Bid Daddy Kane's "RAW" that doesn't translate, but it's speaking first in a different language, y'know? And I remember how the discussions amongst the DJs at the record store were plenty sophisticated, but they were seizing on different aspects from what was the norm then. More often now, hip-hop just strikes me as a region of R&B, both in spirit and sonically speaking.
Beyond that, I think for me personally, I tend to think of hip-hop as aural graffiti: it's the sound of people in your neighborhood getting up, and if getting that sound is too esoteric, if the result is too lofty & polished, it ceases to sound so 'round the block. (Of course, in those days, you still had to go to a studio and record to tape and benefit--maybe--from some of the engineer's skills, even at the low end, too. Different from the low-end now.)
But as far as the polish of modern commercial hip-hop goes: I wonder if we're in its "Shalimar" era (the one that gets eclipsed as time goes on by more durable predecessors like the "Stevie" era). | So what do y'all think about the development of hip-hop's sound in terms of engineering?
Peece,
T. Tauri
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