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Percieve – All I know freestyle
Feb 19th
Joint I finished recording/mixing today - nothing fancy, just some real life raps and an instrumental. Instrumental + raps = easy mixing. On a side note I finally copied EZ Drummer over to the PC today, gonna start banging around on that soon - getting a bit sick of Kontakt's full kit (and no separate mixing for each drum) approach.
Take it all – PNC ft. Jordache, David Dallas, Louie Knuxx, and me
Feb 7th
Check it out – this is off the bro’s album Under The Influence dropping March. Make sure you grab that!
PNC – Take It All ft. Jordache, David Dallas, Louie Knuxx & Percieve (produced by Matt Miller) by PNC
PNC – Take It All art
Feb 3rd
The bro PNC, Jordache, David Dallas, Louie Knuxx and me all took turns at rapping on this joint from PNCs new album Under The Influence out March. Here’s the visual art, musical art to follow.
Performing tonight at Rain with PNC, Sam P, Juss Jay, Dartel and TK
Sep 28th
Lol at the awesome ineffective lateness of this post… if you happen to read this in the next 4 hours – come down to Rain Bar or a drink and listen, should be good times!
Ninja, Raw and Shan on the 1s & 2s
Position of Power free – an oldy
Jul 31st
An old joint I did with the homie Lil Moe, didn’t really put it on anything, just recorded it cause I liked the beat. Now that I’ve stopped letting the world that is Soundcloud rush me by I’ll be updating it with old and new (or what I can find of the old).
Shot
“Chop the loop or shoot the gap”
Feb 15th
Had an interesting convo with homie a while back about looped up beats. You know the ones, the beat is in essence just a loop (predominantly soul thanks to yeezy’s pwnage of said genre).
The bro has been messing round and making beats for a bit and was of the opinion that there’s no real skill or creativity needed when you’re just slapping on some drums, bass, and maybe some strings in the hook. Another bro suggested digging for those samples was part of the art and a skill in itself.
Alphabethead said this about it in his blog:
When making sample-based music I feel I’ve succeeded when, rather than the old ‘Oh, he just slightly tweaked Kraftwerk’ type of response I elicit more of a ‘What the hell was that? Was it Frank Sinatra or Frank Zappa?’ The further removed my piece is from the original the better. This kinda sums up my thoughts on sampling. I have absolutely no qualms about using another artist’s work just as long as:
(a) The ‘sample’ of another piece of work is a ‘component’ or ‘element’ in the new work rather than the ‘crux’.
(b) The work can be viewed as a new composition in its own right and doesn’t decrease the artistic merit or impinge on the viability of the existing piece.
Of course what defines a ‘new composition’ or constitutes an ‘element’ is certainly a contentious issue. I’ve found that proving a piece of sample-based music is (at least) equal to the sum of its parts can be an uphill battle…
I think as a beatmaker you can get caught up in making sure you’re doing the above, but from an MCs perspective, regardless of how many times you’ve heard a sample, or even an instrumental, it’s never gonna be the same as those previous joints after you’ve put your words on the canvas. Personally, if I find a loop that I haven’t heard used before, and I wanna rap on it, I’ll make it into a beat so I CAN rap on it, means to an end. Any sort of ‘that’s not creative’ doesn’t get a second of entertainment throughout the process, because I’m always thinking about the end result of words over beat. Keen to hear your thoughts on the topic if you’ve got any…
If you haven’t listened to Outta my Hands …firstly, we’re not friends anymore, and secondly – it’s just down there… but here’s what I sampled for that beat:
Outta my hands – now in yours. If you want it.
Feb 1st
Percieve – Outta my Hands by percieve
EDIT: If you like it, you can buy the track on iTunes or here at CdBaby.
This is the first track from the bunch of finished songs/still being written, new songs/EP that I’m puttng together at the moment. That’s TK singing in the hook…he’s pretty good at singing stuff, and is on a couple of other joints in said collection of tracks.
It’ll be up for download soon, we’re also shooting a vid for this, the treatment is pretty tech so it’s looking like 2 months of shooting and 1 month of post production, I’ll be posting once we start that!
Good, bad, whatever, let me know what you think about it!
Peace
Delegate it up
Jan 27th
Earlier this week I managed to pull the-now international-homie D Dot Dallas away from the tennis for an advice filled convo about how I’m gonna go about releasing my new stuff, and how I should be going about gettin my thing done in general. Dave is one of my favourite rap mates (not that I have heaps) to go to for advice…firstly cause he obviously knows his shit, and secondly cause he’ll mix the advice in with enough insults for you to not really feel like you’re abusing your friendship for free career advice.
I think I’ve had this same conversation More >
Upcoming NZ on Air changes
Jan 26th
Worth knowing if you’re thinking of applying for, or been applying for, NZ On Air video grants, especially the part about more focus on emerging artists!
NZ On Air is set to undergo a fairly significant set of changes to the way funding is distributed to artists seeking assistance.
Music business consultant (and former head of EMI) Chris Caddick was commissioned in April 2010 to undertake a full and unbiased review of New Zealand’s domestic music funding programmes. As a result, NZ On Air is now planning a massive set of changes to the way New Zealand music is funded and promoted.
Over a hundred “industry types” were interviewed, while 655 members of the public responded to a comprehensive online survey on the matter.
Acknowledging the invaluable assistance that NZ On Air has given our artists, and the boost that NZ Music has seen over the past two decades, Caddick’s report also concluded that certain aspects of the music industry (most notably digital platforms, alternative radio and up-and-coming artists) were not receiving the More >
Outta my Hands video – the drawing board
Jan 20th
Park Road - the sky doesn't always look like that
I had my first sit down with Darwin Go this week about a video we’re doing for a new track you might have heard me do live if you’ve been to a gig in the last little bit, it’s called Outta my Hands. Darwin did a lot of the post production for the Whoa video, and also did the homie TK’s Liar Liar ft. Deach video recently.
I met Darwin at his work, Park Road productions…and man, that place is unreal – from the outside it looks like a 5 star japanese hotel, and from the inside… a gentlemans-by invite only-country club. It was opulent as fuck. I don’t really use that word often, but its justified as here.
The bro has a mean concept for the vid which we’re gonna get started on soon before we lose Welly’s something-like-summer weather, so we’re brainstorming up a couple of locations now. Its gonna be a smaller budget than Whoa, relying entirely on the cd/royalty money I’ve had stashed away fattening up slowly in shares (shout outs to Australia’s mining sector lol). So we also need to start planning any product placement/sponsorship we can pull to stretch that money out like the rubberband I keep it tucked in. If you’ve got any ideas lemme know! I’ll keep you updated with mine.
