Bulletin Board Archive

Topic: Celebrating the beat makers

  1. Jan 19, 2006 03:35am by MILES - [url]http://www.MilesBonny.com/[/url] Location: KCK
    I'd like to see the chop shop again, or at least a version of it. (A beatsociety type thing. ) I go to shows sometimes, just to hear new beats. I love hearing beat CDs and would love to see people do their thing live. There are tons of beat makers in the area and I'd love to hear and see them all.
  2. Jan 21, 2006 10:11am by sgfromkc
    yo.. I was in one of the early chop shop meetings.... man.. i would love ta be in the next one...... Count me in on the next one.... S.G.
  3. Jan 30, 2006 04:25pm by JKR70 - [img:66e766d8cb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/JKR70/LVSIGNATUREBANNER.jpg[/img:66e766d8cb] WWW.HUMANCROPCIRCLES.NET WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HUMANCROPCIRCLES WWW.MYSPACE.COM/JKR70 Location: KcK
    I'm down for some ChopShop type action, its been a while !!!! Miles, why dont we just get one together we could call it whatever, Or who knows how to get at Tommylift ? Dont want to steal his thunder, But I am down to help in organizing a Producers showcase. -Rich
  4. Jan 30, 2006 05:01pm by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    *Paging Mr. Lift*
  5. Jan 30, 2006 09:14pm by Reach. - Peace and oneness, www.emceereach.com www.myspace.com/reach www.twitter.com/emceereach www.youtube.com/reachtv www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic2 www.cdbaby.com/cd/reachmusic Location: Kansas City
    He's on it... he's on it... he's on it... he's on it...
  6. Jan 30, 2006 09:50pm by JKR70 - [img:66e766d8cb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/JKR70/LVSIGNATUREBANNER.jpg[/img:66e766d8cb] WWW.HUMANCROPCIRCLES.NET WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HUMANCROPCIRCLES WWW.MYSPACE.COM/JKR70 Location: KcK
    Cool, well hopefully someone tells him that I want in on this one, because I have been outta the loop for a minute dealing with the family side of life, but I am down for getting back in the swing of things now. -Rich
  7. Jan 30, 2006 10:45pm by MILES - [url]http://www.MilesBonny.com/[/url] Location: KCK
    [quote:6834dc211f="NRG"]"just called mr lift and he is on it"[/quote:6834dc211f] exciting to hear. I'll help promote, just lemme know.
  8. Jan 30, 2006 11:45pm by Lucidialect
    Tight shit. I'd love to see a chop shop go down. I missed a couple, waiting tables at the time and always on-duty when they'd be going down. Now I'm a sedentary nine-to-fiver and would love to come listen to instrumentals. I wish more beat CD's and instrumental albums came out of here. We have some notably sick producers in this city and it'd be great for them to be show-cased more.
  9. Feb 1, 2006 07:20pm by Tommylift Location: Kansas city
    Don't y'all know I reads the boards? Shiat!! First, I just want to say that I don't hold the patent rights to a beat night. If anybody wants to organize and hold a producer's showcase - go for it. As far as the Chop Shop is concerned, yeah, it's been a while. I've been hella busy with too many projects to get into, but it's about time to get down to business. I would be down to involve more people this next time than usual (4 producers, 1 dj and 1 instrumentalist) so that everyone who is interested can get in on it. I have some core people in mind already. I can find a venue - that's no problem, but if anybody has a suggestion, feel free to post. Also, how would y'all feel about a private party (maybe 100 heads or so) at a warehouse or something? It might be better to throw a dope show in a unique environment than doing another event at a bar. Next - let me say that I feel that we need to step up our game some. When I play with my production team (www.myspace.com/hymnlayas) we play beats at the same time and beat match with each other. We even have the ability to mix and fade between 2 or 3 beats solo. This is important because it keeps the pace moving, and provides a musical experience for the listeners more like listening to a DJ. Also, it's important to be able to mute certain sounds in your beat and play along with other producers, or to be able to let the instrumentalist substitute a bass line or harmony part. For these reasons, participating producers must bring the equipment they make the beats on. Bringing CDs is just not good enough. Ok, what do you think? Let's get it crackin!
  10. Feb 1, 2006 08:01pm by JKR70 - [img:66e766d8cb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/JKR70/LVSIGNATUREBANNER.jpg[/img:66e766d8cb] WWW.HUMANCROPCIRCLES.NET WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HUMANCROPCIRCLES WWW.MYSPACE.COM/JKR70 Location: KcK
    I am down for whatever I need to be down for these days, I can bring my laptop, I use Acid just like you (if thats what your still using anyway) also I am cool with a private party vibe, just let me know what the deal is, for example, whos going to be able to participate in this one ? Me ? Lemme know. -Rich
  11. Feb 2, 2006 03:08am by vertigone
    I'd be happy to host a Chop-Shop at The Hurricane. Let me know! [email protected] -Vrt
  12. Feb 3, 2006 11:52am by sgfromkc
    All Producers interested in doing this... I have the perfect place to hold a Producers Conference. jus to hold a Meeting on what is possible and what is impossible for a something never done before type of show........ lets get together and mash ideas....... things ta talk about like............ set up a Tempo Grid........... Therefore.... say.. 88 BPM's... make A drum Beat for 88bpm;'s... also a Melodic sequence minus the drums.... so then ..we can Mix Match drums with someone elses melody and vice versa.... Jus a quick thought........ it def would work if we Midi up .... .and of course... ta keep it moving ... get MC's involved that wanna spit over the creations........ another thing tho.. Not so Planned out ...is... I always wanted to see Beatmakers Make a beat.... i know making a beat on stage has to be Pressure....but if you Have your samples Ready and Mapped out....it should be a breeze...... Hmmmm..im jus spitting out idea's... but..how bout like... ok... teams of 2 producers .. on the spot... 1 makes the drum beat. 2 makes the melodic ... as long as they have the same tempo.... and midi up machines... it will work.... even if you make your beats on a Computer.... there is a Slave / Master Option... ...................................................................................................... AS Well as... like ... every producer involved..... make a Beat CD to be played, with 5 or so beats at 1 ta 2 min lenth... to be played Before the main event of collab starts... Jus a few ideas..... I like the idea of the Hurricane as a Spot... but Cover can be a bitch... and when money comes in the pic... shit never goes as planned....Unless. of course.. we can Bypass the cover...not so much worried bout the age thing tho...21 and over is no problemo... ...... therefore...Im feeling the Private Party angle.....A sorta Invite Only event. But then we gotta worry bout Sound System ETC.....!!! talk to me Guys!!!!! S.G.
  13. Feb 3, 2006 02:53pm by JKR70 - [img:66e766d8cb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/JKR70/LVSIGNATUREBANNER.jpg[/img:66e766d8cb] WWW.HUMANCROPCIRCLES.NET WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HUMANCROPCIRCLES WWW.MYSPACE.COM/JKR70 Location: KcK
    SG, I am pretty open to whatever venue or format that is decided upon, as long as we all can meet before hand, and we are all on the same page.Although I am not totally up on the whole "midi up" portion of your comment, I do use an mpd16, however it is hardly the main thing I use to compose beats, I use it as more of an add in/finishing touch sorta thing,but we could work all this out in a meeting. I am still waiting to hear who all is going to be participating. -Rich
  14. Feb 4, 2006 05:12am by Tommylift Location: Kansas city
    [color=darkblue:be60b5688f][/color:be60b5688f][size=18:be60b5688f][/size:be60b5688f]OK When my production team beat matches, we all are using pcs, but it would work with any sampler/sequencer with a bpm meter. All you have to do is set your bpm to the same speed and then use a little finnesse to start playing the beginning of the your beat at the beggining of the beat that's currently playing - or at least in time with it. If you're trying to beatmatch with a turntable or some older technology that doesn't have a bpm display, you can use a digital metronome with a tap-in feature to get a pretty close estimate of the bpm while listening to the beat before you join in. Plus, if you blend the beat you are introducing by only playing one solo instrument at a time, it won't sound so bad if you aren't perfectly on beat - as you work it out. If you use a dj mixer, you can cue it up in the headphones. So, if your computer has enough ram, you can open up like 3 copies of acid and play them all at the same time, and blend them and compose and remix - the next level. To change tempos, all you have to do is communicate with the next dude that you are going to slow down or if he wants you to slow it down. Then drag the tempo slide bar on the acid program down or up to slow down or speed up. Don't let go of the mouse button until the beat repeats "on the one beat". Until you let the mouse button go, the tempo change will not go into effect. So, you can step it down 1 to 2 bpms every 4 bar sequence and no one will really notice the change. the result - a gradual tempo slow down that sounds pro. Playing original beats is great, but if you can adapt and switch it up live on the spot, the you can react to what the crowd is feelin. Playing mixed up drum beats and melodies is what the "chop" is in Chop Shop. I've been trying to get people to cue in to this concept ever since I introduced the idea. I love S's suggestion of teams of producers playing just drums or just melodies etc. - for at least one certain point in the event. Plus, we could develop different combinations of sequences and tempos and samples that can allow us to interject random samples and sounds on the fly - samples plucked out of sample libraries - not even in the beat you're playing. Plus, of course upen mics and performances by artists (who the featured producers at the Chop Shop made beats for). This is how we lay it down - peep the HYMNLAYAS
  15. Feb 4, 2006 10:17pm by Krisna - "We live in an intensely political age and theory and historical experience show us that the condition of any artistic development is an uncompromising hostility to the values of Stalinism and to those of American bourgeois society." -CLR James
    What's the deal, SG? It has been a minute, my friend. Holla. Peace. -rebel