One Dilla Land
May 27, 2020, 04:00 PM
Piece based on J Dilla's MPC by Adam Hulbert.
"J Dilla’s MPC 3000 was a portal to another, fresher, place, where nothing was quite as expected. In his hands, machine music was full of life. I’m celebrating his legacy with a back-to-roots boom bap track, which draws on the MPC production style for inspiration. I made this using a serve of cut-up samples from the 1951 Alice in Wonderland animated feature, with a liberal sprinkling of New Zealand studio genius Goldbaby’s percussion hits, which he sampled through various MPCs. Samples were played in directly using an Ableton Live Push 2 with quantising turned off. A touch of post editing in Pro Tools."
Part of the Smithsonian Treasures project, a collection of new sound works inspired by items from the Smithsonian Museums’ collections - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian
"J Dilla’s MPC 3000 was a portal to another, fresher, place, where nothing was quite as expected. In his hands, machine music was full of life. I’m celebrating his legacy with a back-to-roots boom bap track, which draws on the MPC production style for inspiration. I made this using a serve of cut-up samples from the 1951 Alice in Wonderland animated feature, with a liberal sprinkling of New Zealand studio genius Goldbaby’s percussion hits, which he sampled through various MPCs. Samples were played in directly using an Ableton Live Push 2 with quantising turned off. A touch of post editing in Pro Tools."
Part of the Smithsonian Treasures project, a collection of new sound works inspired by items from the Smithsonian Museums’ collections - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian