So I love Pop music.
I love Indian classical and Spiritual Jazz and all that clever shit but I also love Pop music.
Danja is pretty much my favourite producer at the moment. His trademark sound may only be a hair’s-breadth away from his mentor Timbaland’s but he seems to by going about making music with more joy and flair than the big mumbler has recently. After co-producing half the hit records of 2006 he broke out and did the Britney album without Timbaland and seems to be cranking out big drums and synths quite happily on his own now.
The Clutch are Georgia based songwriters Balewa Muhammad, Ezekiel Lewis, Patrick “J. Que” Smith, Candice Nelson and Keri Hilson. Hilson has been about-to-be-massive for guite a few years now, but perhaps too busy writing hits for other people to do her own album.
The Clutch work with a lot of different producers but it’s when Danja is on the beats that they really work. They are a perfect Black Pop production team, rhythm and harmony and energy. Music for teenagers, like it should be.
I shall include some of their produce, in the teenage medium of Youtube videos: (more…)
If you’re programming drums then you might as well program something that no one is gonna play on a drum kit. I’d love to hear someone sit down at the traps and knock this out but I think the robots have got us beat for now.
Absolutely M&M P-nuts.
As we rumble in the Jungle I want to point out my boy DJ Bazia who is about the same age as most of the tracks he’s spinning here. Maybe a little younger. The force is strong in him.
All this music needs is an intermission with adverts for Club Telepathy and Jungle Mania: The Lion Returns. Possibly with a short statement on how the station is “not a drug-run organisation”, otherwise it’s perfect.
Okay so I’m just gonna pick it up, pick it up, pick it up where I left off rather than do a lot of ’splaining the last seven months of inactivity. Actually, here, have three bullet points:
BULLET I’m in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles from my record collection.
BULLET I had to spend some time playing the drums.
BULLET Shit doesn’t happen.
Anyways I’m back on the scene and I’m going to be here on 1633, slightly less focused on vinyl because things like growing vegetables and chopping wood are equally high up my priorities list right now. There’ll still be vinyl posts though.
I’m forever on last.fm. It looked a bit iffy when the new design came in but when it’s all settled down the benefits outweigh the downsides and it’s still a great site for people that fucks with music.
I’m also belatedly up on the twitter. Look at me all 2007. That’s my final word on not joining Facebook.
