Recent content by Thermos

Thanks for revealing a bit of the secrete process. I'm interested, what motivated you to spend so much time and effort on this? Are you really into remixing?

This basically is hip-hop to me. Roc Raida murders this tape. The patterns are so complex, funky, fast and clean. I could listen to Raida mix 90s hip-hop like this for days on end with a big dumb grin on my face. RIP.

She wrote two essays for Gawker on the movie, the first one sparked an apology from Dr Dre. The second one is Barnes' response to the apology: http://gawker.com/heres-whats-missing-from-straight-outta-compton-me-and-1724735910...

Last week I posted a new album/beattape that I made. I'd be curious to hear feedback from the Strut. All boom-bapish sample based stuff. A few raer samples. Some classic material flipped in new ways. Slow Cooking by DJ Thermos

I'm definitely into the idea of trading classic hip-hop acapellas. I have a small collection of rap 12"s with acapellas for cuts and samples. I snap em up whenever I find decent ones. Here's a one that I just ripped: Nas - One Love http://www3.zippyshare.com/v/pdC41CSF/file.html...

This thread has completely changed my mind about sample libraries in about ten minutes. Every digital sample library I have ever played with was full of B-grade instrumental parts recorded with very little flavor. I thought that sample libraries were for mediocre producers who had shallow crate...

It's a solid record and "do it" is a great single, but I wish the album moved more in that direction, with more dynamic arrangements and doo wop elements. Throwback 80s boogie is a crowded field these days and Tuxedo isn't standing out far from the pack.

This ruling is an overstep of the purpose of copyright and it comes within a long history of copyright-creep. It creates dis-incentives for cultural production without balancing it with meaningful incentives. No one is making music because they think some douchy pop singer is going to make a...

Lines are blurred in this argument because Thicke is such an insufferable doof. It feels like he should pay money to Marvin Gaye's family to make amends for every time they're mentioned in the same sentence. Still, the ruling is bogus. If making derivative songs is copyright infringement than...

My current obsessions are the first two albums by The Books, a two LP set of Mildred Bailey's "greatest performances", Grace Jones - Living My Life, William Onyeabor, and Africa Hitech. I'm also still stuck on J Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive. Easily one of the most soulful hip-hop albums that...

Hi Soulstrut, This is technically a re-introduction, but I'd be surprised if anyone here remembers me. I started lurking on this site back in 2002 or something crazy like that when I read about it in URB magazine. I posted a little over the years, but stopped checking in around 2008. I'm...

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Lordy. I'm gonna Yall have a good time wrappin this up.