The IC Beatmaking/Producing Thread

[StillFaggyAF]

my first beat tape:
https://soundcloud.com/prodbyshomar/sets/bfnb

check it out

Just followed your page. I fucks w/ 4 O'Clock. Seems like something Ferg would spit over.

Boom Clap also cold. Liked how you flipped the Tiden Flyver sample and made it your own. Diff vibe from BDKMV.

How long you been producing?

Thanks man that means alot

Ive producing a couple years

 

[G.Avant]

Track I just finished. Play it on the loudest volume.
http://soundcloud.com/benjamin-e-1/psychocrusher

I've never seen Jaws, but I know the sound a shark makes when there's blood or a swimming virgin in the water. I pulled up the soundtrack and started cutting...

One thing I noticed is that the end of the composition is a melody that sounds like Michael Jackson's Heal the World. Out of curiosity, I searched to see if Michael had a link to Spielberg and came across a hilarious article written by CNN at the height of The King of Pop's crucifixion. It says that Michael once paid a voodoo priest $150,000 to put a curse on the director, among others. Also, he was up for the part of Peter Pan in Spielberg's Hook, but ended up turning it down when he heard about the "growing up" premise of the film. Either way, Michael was a fan at one point, and I wouldn't be surprised if he sampled the melody and got away with not crediting John William's score...

I had been looking for a reason to use the beginning break from When the Levee Breaks by Led Zepplin, ever since Rick Rubin repurposed it for the Beastie Boy's So Whatchu Want. Maybe I have a thing for Rock drums with hard-hitting snares. I threw some 808's on 'em and it sounded epic...

Progression is always an element in my beats. I hate the typical verse - hook - verse - hook- verse-hook arrangement that's so popular among songsmiths. Where's the innovation? Where's the climax? I'll probably have more bridges than hooks throughout my career.

this is what i always like about producers like the Neptunes and Dr. Dre. maybe its because they have some musical training outside of beat making but they incorporate things like bridges etc...

we need more of that in hip hop, however, people always seem to want to "mix" other genres into hip hop rather than advance hip hop itself if you know what i mean

I feel you... a lot of hip hop songs that try to blend rock end up sounding like a spoof, rather than taking elements of rock and making them hip hop... I think it's the combination of what people perceive hip hop is and what people think is rock, when both genres have come a long way from "Walk This Way"...

What you think about this old rock sample I did.
https://soundcloud.com/gavant91/city-on-smash

 

[BenjaminE]

What you think about this old rock sample I did.
https://soundcloud.com/gavant91/city-on-smash

That was dope... exactly what I was talking about... it's kinda funny because my ex was a big pumpkins fan and I even worked at one of their shows in college, but I didn't recognize the sample until the bells came in... I really liked the progression of the strings... I'm kind of torn on whether I liked the part where the female vocal comes in... on one hand, it reminds me of a dj shadow track... on the other, there is something weird going on with the enhancement (transformer?) ... either way, dope track... you check out that fine line track?

 

[BenjaminE]

my first beat tape:
https://soundcloud.com/prodbyshomar/sets/bfnb

check it out

cs 4 o'clock... played it earlier and my son stopped crying when i bounced him to the beat... no joke...

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

Anybody got a dope jazz sample ? Particularly Harlem renaissance era?

I'm crafting a project and one of the songs I'm brainstorming on is about that era.

Anyway I'm really trying to get this off the ground. Its just hard to find good beats especially with what I'm trying to do.

 

[BarryHalls]

Anybody fuck with Logic Pro X? I'm looking for a new cheap DAW and $200 is a steal.

 

[DarthRozay]

Anybody fuck with Logic Pro X? I'm looking for a new cheap DAW and $200 is a steal.

I use the version before X and it's pretty good.

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

my first beat tape:
https://soundcloud.com/prodbyshomar/sets/bfnb

check it out

are any of these beats available for download

 

[StillFaggyAF]

my first beat tape:
https://soundcloud.com/prodbyshomar/sets/bfnb

check it out

are any of these beats available for download

Nah not right now

 

[StillFaggyAF]

just made a house/club beat

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

bumpington

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

damn, no layers in that shit lol

 

[Brian B.]

tried hittin Curren$y up to send him this beat

https://soundcloud.com/#brianb423/i-dont-know

cuz everyone that hears it mentions his name lol

or some shit like this

https://soundcloud.com/#brianb423/martinique-beat-by-brian-b

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

neither one would show up for me, im pretty sure ur style would work well with curren$y tho

 

[StillFaggyAF]

i gotta find out what mike will used for move that dope and itchin

tried hittin Curren$y up to send him this beat

https://soundcloud.com/#brianb423/i-dont-know

cuz everyone that hears it mentions his name lol

or some shit like this

https://soundcloud.com/#brianb423/martinique-beat-by-brian-b

i like I don't Know

 

[Breezy_Kilroy]

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

I was going to make a thread about this.

I'm not knocking him but damn if he ain't got the most generic beats.

Ye Sanctified

 

[BenjaminE]

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

all i took from that is "if you replay it, they can't take all the money..."

also, it's not what you know...

 

[BarryHalls]

throwback

One of my first beats and gave it to this rapper named Aspect from NYC.

 

[BarryHalls]

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

That German DJ done fucked up. Never give out your secrets.