Great book.

[sd-cd]

I'm talking about "Making Beats - the art of sample-based hip hop" by Joseph G.Schloss

I read about 100 pages from about 200 and I'm impressed.

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Mark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life : "Making Beats is a leap into the future of hip-hop studies. The book should be required reading for scholars and serious fans of hip-hop music and culture."

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Despite having created one of the most important musical cultures of the last fifty years, hip-hop composers who use digital sampling are rarely taken seriously as artists. But hip-hop deejays and producers have collectively developed an artistic system that features a complex aesthetic, a detailed array of social protocols, a rigorous set of ethical expectations and a rich historical consciousness.

Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats is the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods and values of this surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects--from hip-hop artists' pedagogical methods to the Afro-diasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of "digging" for rare records--Joseph G. Schloss examines the way hip-hop artists have managed to create a form of expression that reflects their creative aspirations, moral beliefs, political values and cultural realities.

[bknot1]

I think these are pretty good books.. This Business of Urban Music by James L. Walker and The MusicPowers That Be by C. Cirocco Jones

[terrytee]

Originally Posted by ds-ds

I'm talking about "Making Beats - the art of sample-based hip hop" by Joseph G.Schloss

I read about 100 pages from about 200 and I'm impressed.

Amazon.com: Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Music Culture): Joseph G. Schloss: Books

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[Keyflo]

The greatest way to start, is to read lots of books, they teahc you programming, mixing and all sorts of stuff

[The kosmos]

Originally Posted by ds-ds

I'm talking about "Making Beats - the art of sample-based hip hop" by Joseph G.Schloss

I read about 100 pages from about 200 and I'm impressed.

Does it go into great detail about acheiving a great bass line sound ?
A cd enclosed with it would have been good for examples.

[sd-cd]

Originally Posted by The kosmos

Does it go into great detail about acheiving a great bass line sound ?
A cd enclosed with it would have been good for examples.

No. It does not.
It is mostly about the history, about ethics of sampling etc., not about the mixing. Great book.

[nukmusic]

Originally Posted by bknot1

. . . . and The MusicPowers That Be by C. Cirocco Jones

althought I knew most of this info...it would be a "must have" book if I were to recommend a book to anyone serious about learning this business. No bullshit.