I created a video showing the making of cider attack. Otherwise known as ‘Cyder Attack’. I explain the reason for the song and my rather obscure spelling of the word ‘cyder’ in my blog post Cider Rap.Continue reading
Category Archives: Music Production
The Old West
I also had a look back at The Old West, in studying for The Marvelous Adventures of the Wayback Machine. By ‘The Old West’ I mean the American Frontier, or 19th Century western USA, or the ‘Wild West’ as some might call it.Continue reading
How To Freestyle Rap
I made a video on how to freestyle rap. Following on from my post Why Should Every Rapper Freestyle I created this video giving you a powerful tip in learning how to freestyle, or in other words learn how to improvise and rap and craft lyrics on the fly and off the top of your head.Continue reading
Ancient Egypt Song
So here’s another era in time I had to learn about whilst studying for ‘The Wayback Machine’ EP. Ancient Egypt! This is about my Ancient Egypt Song!Continue reading
The Making of The Good Vibe
I did a YouTube video showing the making of The Good Vibe which is a song I did off my first EP, The Bog Standard EP.Continue reading
The Blues
Let me explain why there’s a song on my new EP with Drunk Pedestrians about the blues! I’ve been studying for the wayback machine. Basically I’ve been writing the lyrics for this up and coming EP about Time Travel, ‘Marvelous Adventures of the Wayback Machine’ and it’s been like a constant history lesson. Not that I’m complaining! Continue reading
Making a Grime Track from Scratch
Here’s a video showing me making a Grime track from scratch. Although I consider myself more of a Hip Hop artist than a Grime artist, being from the UK and being a rapper there is no getting away from the Grime influence which runs deep in the UK.Continue reading
Vinyl Digging VS E-Digging
There appears to be a debate over vinyl digging VS e-digging in this day and age.
For those that aren’t Hip Hop producers or producers in general ‘digging’ basically means finding records to sample to make your own beats as the majority of Hip Hop is based on sampling other records. ‘Vinyl Digging’ has been the more ‘traditional’ way in which many producers have chosen to sample records. In other words they will dig for samplable breaks through old vinyl records and use the records there.Continue reading
Kool G Rap VS Celsius
So I did a remix Kool G Rap VS Celsius. Basically combining one of my all time favourite rappers Kool G Rap with one of my favourite dance tracks in recent years, ‘Incoming’ by Celsius. I took Kool G Rap’s a capella from the track ‘Ill Street Blues’ and put it over the top of the ‘Incoming’ track. The result works rather well in my opinion (but then I would say that). It really changes the dynamic to the G Rap’s lyrics compared to how they fit on the original ‘Ill Street Blues’ beat.Continue reading
The Good and Bad of Digital DJing
Yes as the musical world has now been thoroughly digitally overthrown, I thought I’d take a look at the good and bad of digital DJing.
I was once a purist in the world of Hip Hop with a very ‘dustier than now’ disposition. This is both in terms of DJing and music production. I had no interest in using computers. I only sampled from vinyl (ok occasionally from CD shhh!…) I’d only play with ‘real’ records. None of this CDJ rubbish and heaven forbid I use Serato or Traktor. Continue reading