Hiphop

[GrindYourMind]

Any of you cats ever make hiphop/triphop beats? It's definitely a departure from the Death Metal/Fusion that seems to dominate this board but it's fun as fuck to make and good background music when it's looped.

[Djeez]

I made some crappy simple hip-hop loops with Renoise for someone I know, and it's really easy, but fun nonetheless.As fun and easy as making crappy trance songs that everyone love, haha.Even if I hate hip-hop, some beat makers are pretty good, and really under-rated.Why the hell is the singer getting all the praise?

I love Renoise, but I'm bored of it.I guess I'll get motivated with the upcoming beatbattle though.

[Crucified Coma]

Plenty of producers get a ton of credit (even if they're not that great). Just look at someone like Timbaland.

Anyway, listen to stuff produced by Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind, Dan The Automator, El-P, RZA, Blockhead, Aesop Rock, Blue Sky Black Death, Madlib, Prince Paul, Ant, etc. for examples of how amazing it can be.

Not hip hop, but Amon Tobin has a lot of great stuff too.

[InertialGrind]

Anybody heard of phat kat ? A friend of mine will be doing some beats on his next release. Dude has 100 grand worth of recording equipment in a pos loft in detroit.

[GrindYourMind]

I just made a beat with guitar intro to Meshuggah - Stengah. Sadly, it sounds like Korn.

[Alpha~Omega]

I had a program called jayjay hip hop maker or something like that. Was pretty easy to use, it had even virtual turntables =) I imported all sorts of soundsamples from tv, news, history channels and put some beats underneath. Great fun, but that was years ago.

[Disincarnate]

i listen to some hip hop.kinda liking the new stuff that timbaland is coming up with on the new nelly furtardo album and some other random stuff.not into all that but its a good change sometimes

[ChAAPY]

the old school sounding beats on 6 Feet Deep = WIN!

[KeyserSoze]

I used to make a lot of beats that were hip hop ish. They were a bit darker than most of the commercial stuff but it had that feel for sure. I even thought about trying to make some money making rap beats. Not hip hop but rap, like 3-6 or Bun-B or E-40. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I know some music theory so when I hear those beats I think "piece of cake". Then I sit down to make a beat and it comes out lifeless and dull. Even if my "riff" is great and by beat is good it was still missing something. So I gave up and went back to practicing single strokes and odd time signatures. :grn1: