January 29th, 2007 59 Comments »
This is Jee Juh’s first edition of our Music Industry Contacts Catalog. We will be constantly updating this catalog and reposting it as we do. Hopefully this information will go hand in hand with our beats in helping you in your music career.
LOS ANGELES RECORD LABEL CONTACTS
143 Records
530 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 101
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone: 310-899-0143
Fax: 310-899-0133
A&M Records
1416 North Lebrea Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90028
Aftermath Records
2220 Colorado Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 310-865-7642
Fax:310-865-7068
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January 28th, 2007 5 Comments »
“Now that I have a Grammy under my belt and Late Registration is finished, I am ready to launch my clothing line next spring.”
The producer/beat maker/rapper/political activist named Kanye Omari West was born on June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, GA. Kanye West then made it to Chicago at age three. Kanye West’s early production and beat making was mostly for small time artists in chicago and his hometown area. After dibble dabbling around for a while, kanye west made his first big collaboration called “Turn It Up” with Jermaine Dupri and Nas, this was a breakthrough for him and it featured on JD’s Life… In 1472 movie soundtrack. The song unlike most of his other beats relied on a sample-free style, basically the opposite of Kanye West’s diced drum-programming and sample-heavy tunes. Kanye honed and perfected his production skills under the training of Derrick “D-Dot” Angeletti. Continue reading »
January 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
In comparing mics there’s not always a clear better or worse. For example, when I’m making a hip hop beat and I want to add a piano sound there are many to choose from (a dark piano, bright, distorted), each going better with different beats. The same goes with microphones. Different mics go better with different artists over different instrumentals. However, in modern hip hop music the sound of vocals has become very consistent. Where as the instrumental’s piano, snare, or kick often sound different from song to song, the vocal quality across the board is usually about the same. This makes it possible for top producers to get away with having only one microphone in their mic cabinet. This vocal standard, also makes it easier to compare mics, and it will be this same standard that I judge these following microphones against. Continue reading »
