At 04:28 AM 11/26/00 -0800, 21st century soul wrote:
>great musicians today are playing their studios, not just their samplers....
Right, and they're also wearing many hats: Producer, musician, sound
designer, engineer, mastering engineer. Things previously unknown to
musicians -- like proper EQing, compression, etc are being tackled by
electronic producers nowaday. Even business aspects like owning, operating
and marketing their own music label.
>not true. with all three of those genres each has a distinct vibe, emotional
>content, structure, melodies, rhythmic characteristics and even vocal
>content. the edges are blurred, but that's the beauty of it, i think...
The rhythm is what separates most music genres in general... hip-hop has a
different rhythm than country music, which has a different rhythm than
Bossa Nova music, which hass a different rhythm than Punk rock.
>HELL yeah. I know a MJ Cole song when I hear it.
Yep...crisp, clean drum samples, strings and pads played backwards,
pizzicato strings... :)
But that's what MJ Cole WANTS you to know -- "Hey this is an MJ Cole
record." I believe that goes for any other producer as well.
BTW seriously, I just got "Sincere" yesterday and it's a pretty damn good
album. I was also gonna pick up Sade's "Lover's Rock" but I passed it for
the Ben Watt/Jay Hannan "Lazy Dog" mix comp (very nice and smooth). I'll
get Lover's Rock when I can pay less than $15 for it... :)
True Slum King,
Elson
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