New Music / Release Thread

[ketan]

Duderonomy said:



ketan said:

Imma be real with you: I literally just assume that when Kanye puts out a song that he is credited as producer and artist, he has some significant creative influence on what the songs end up sounding like. He actually seems like the type of person who finely pours over details and is a bit of a dick about it.





Hmmm.... Still Dre. Lyrics were written by Jay-Z, beat by Storch & Mel-Man, but Dr Dre is the first name in the production credits. He's just the name fronting the product. Still Scott Storch & Mel-Man with ghost-lyrics by S. Carter just isn't as catchy.



Even if that's what has been going on with Dre, it doesn't mean Kanye is doing the same thing when he puts his name in front of a bunch of credits.

I guess I'd just like to see some interviews with people in the know talking about how Kanye is a shell of his former producer-self. Some smoke from the fire. (By all means, show me up!)

 

[Duderonomy]

ketan said:
I guess I'd just like to see some interviews with people in the know talking about how Kanye is a shell of his former producer-self. Some smoke from the fire. (By all means, show me up!)



We may have to wait for an unguarded interview with one of the contributors as there's no reason Kanye would talk.

 

[ketan]

Duderonomy said:



ketan said:
I guess I'd just like to see some interviews with people in the know talking about how Kanye is a shell of his former producer-self. Some smoke from the fire. (By all means, show me up!)



We may have to wait for an unguarded interview with one of the contributors as there's no reason Kanye would talk.



If you look at the credits for ULTRALIGHT BEAM:

PRODUCTION KANYE WEST, MIKE DEAN #MWA FOR DEAN'S LIST PRODUCTIONS, CHANCE THE RAPPER & SWIZZ BEATZ
CO-PRODUCTION RICK RUBIN & DEREK WATKINS
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION PLAIN PAT, DJDS & NOAH GOLDSTEIN FOR ARK PRODUCTIONS, INC

There are four people with the main credit for production, let alone co-production and additional production credits. I'm guessing people in those other categories truly just punched songs up (to use a comedy metaphor) or did something else minor. So then, out of the four with a main credit, if Kanye didn't provide some sort of vision (if not material contributions to the music), then who did? The song - as a whole - came out tight as hell. So I guess my point is that the songs on the new album are frequently these large team jobs, and I'm impressed that the album doesn't come out as a jumbled mess. And i'm assuming that's to Kanye's credit.

 

[trzakhstan]

Remember when Kanye had that monologue where he talks about taking the drums from a Dr Dre song when he is making a beat for Jazy-Z early in his career?

 

[Duderonomy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=967RRWqVZqw

 

[Duderonomy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihZcxMsYkF0

 

[Duderonomy]

https://soundcloud.com/forbben/forbben-01-the-happy-man-time-machine-vostok-ep

 

[Duderonomy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlX7EXhMHJQ

 

[Duderonomy]

https://soundcloud.com/version111a/version-006-benny-ill-rise-6-rmx-dread-drumz-rmx-preview

 

[ketan]

Duderonomy said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlX7EXhMHJQ



WOWOWOWowowowWOWOW

The video is just

That skating man is beautiful as hell. (Coming from a straight man.) [pun intended]

 

[Duderonomy]

It's a great video - Brits abroad! - and I will probably think about it whenever I hear the track now.


https://soundcloud.com/iyer/iyer-mushroom-buttons-lotta-kush-unreleased

 

[Duderonomy]

https://soundcloud.com/djtaye/dj-taye-burnin-ya-boa-feat-dj-manny

 

[bassie2]

This is excellent.

 

[kicks79]

I was just going to post in here and ask if anyone was feeling the new Solange.
Its a great album.
Saadiq is executive producer on lots of tracks.
Might be the first new release for me since D'Angelo that is worthy of a vinyl pick up.

 

[ketan]

Going to check that Solange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGOOw6UWUeI

 

[Duderonomy]

What is going on in that video? (Night cruising thing)

 

[Duderonomy]

https://soundcloud.com/wbgldn/track-02?in=wbgldn/sets/we-buy-gold-002

 

[Duderonomy]

https://soundcloud.com/wbgldn/track-3?in=wbgldn/sets/we-buy-gold-001


I used to love vinyl only releases :WHYMUSTICRY:

 

[Junior]

That Bioroot track is such a lovely slice of retrohouse, makes me feel all warm inside.

Duder, you're into the footwork? I've dabbled a little but with a lot of it I find it hard to escape the feeling that it's just a very late to the party version of less exploratory 90s DnB.

The vinyl only release thing is even more painful today than it used to be when everything was vinyl only: hear a great track, look it up, discover it's vinyl only, ignore this and spend the next half hour visiting every single online store to see if they have the digital version, give up, go to local record stores, find that it was a limited release, cry.

Speaking of limited vinyl only releases, I still have an entirely illogical hope that this will be released in a format that, cost of import aside, isn't sold out before it's even available....

(It takes about 4 1/2 minutes to get going)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OOypx_bqHs

 

[Junior]

Oh, I also finally got around to sitting down for an extended time with Blonde and it's fantastic. I thought repeated listens may cause the album to lose it's appeal but it's definitely a grower.