Cheapo nasty midi horn fanfares

maxi

maxi

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those first rza beats when he stopped using samples are kind of bizarre. uses a lot of midi versions of real instruments actually
 
luka

luka

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yeah i was talking about this album a couple of nights ago and how weird it is sonically... not in a particuarly good way though
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
in RZAs amazing and very inspiring book The Tao of Wu he talks about how he went and learned to play piano and studied music and composition between the first album and Forever. He also says he got very depressed and reclusive once he'd hit it big and stayed at home all the time watching films in a penthouse on a massive telly. Can't remember if it was exactly the same period. Draw you're own conclusions
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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maxi said:
I think it's rza just as he was moving from sample-based to bobby digital. it's definitely a clash but i kind of like that about it
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Ah that makes sense, hadn't realised it was the rza. I suppose it's like a nod to dodgy 80s film soundtracks then. It is so naff!
 
maxi

maxi

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woops said:
in RZAs amazing and very inspiring book The Tao of Wu he talks about how he went and learned to play piano and studied music and composition between the first album and Forever. He also says he got very depressed and reclusive once he'd hit it big and stayed at home all the time watching films in a penthouse on a massive telly. Can't remember if it was exactly the same period. Draw you're own conclusions
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that sounds great I'm gonna read that
 
wektor

wektor

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started a project with some jazz mates recently where we play only general midi sounds.
cheapo midi horn can easily be made into massive fucking sounding hoovers if you trigger hundreds of notes at once.
quite performance effective, too.
hopefully will be able to provide some recorded examples after this Friday.
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
House and garage had a definite pattern of midi horns by degrees (a phase of development in production technology and people learning?), all on labels worthy of attention, too much of a micro niche and too boring to explore with your ears

Least favourite, signature, gimmicky horns are in sketchier commercial elements, Miami winter music festival soundtrack catalogue ie the dregs of soulful, can’t listen to “praise His name” for the 50th time and I fully grasp gospel influences just not backed up by dodgy horn chorus filler (dubs often dial it back)

DJ Spen is a repeat offender, a genuine force when it clicks yet he purged excruciating garbage too, enough to go full Frank Booth at times when people play it that cliched. Jovonn, a producer among the best at his peak, oooph one or two ultra shockers but hating is fairly redundant. Jovonn is a beast live and his discography is among the summits of house, I must own 90% of his output with stacks of *Baltimore releases and lived all over *Jersey. Timmy Regisford can play subterranean transcendental garage, he can play horn tedium b’dah b’dah <><> all night too

*Nothing but love for the gaffs steady on the horns eh
 
sufi

sufi

lala
apologies to be rather late to this thread with the virtuoso Ayman AlShibley who seems to have carved out a whole scene out of NCMHFs
 
maxi

maxi

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Benny B said:
I had these two in mind when I started the thread but I couldn't remember the names though I knew they were buried somehwere in those drought mixtapes. Exemplary midi horn bizness even if I do say so myself. So dated (Wayne himself included) yet soooo good.

What happened to @maxi what say you?
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Yeah good shouts, nearly posted Upgrade myself back when the thread was starting - along with 'seat down low' also off da drought 3, one of my fave wayne songs
 
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