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Quick Question regarding the making of beats.

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  • 25-07-2009 9:44pm
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    Dragan
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    Right, i've recently start making some Hip Hop beats. It's early days yet but i am wondering is there a good place to find people who may be interesting in laying down lyrics over the beats? I am not a rapper, never will. I do enjoy making beats though, and while it's early days i reckon i have some decent enough **** in me.

    So, is there some kind of dedicated Irish site or is it basically here?

    Example of beats below.

    http://soundcloud.com/shatterfreak/the-big-backdown


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    Glico Man
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    Dunno much about this area but a couple of friends of mine are well into it.

    Heres the bebo page where they put up their music

    http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4051716204


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    Napoli
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    Nice work. It's a really "dark" tune, like it could be the anthem of an anarchist movement or something. It screams rebellion. I dunno, I'm drunk. Anyway keep it up. You have potential.


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    BLITZ_Molloy
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    Check out www.irishhiphop.com/forum

    Lots of good producers on there like SertOne, Sleepybb and DBeats to offer some pointers.


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    Dragan
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    Napoli wrote: »
    Nice work. It's a really "dark" tune, like it could be the anthem of an anarchist movement or something. It screams rebellion. I dunno, I'm drunk. Anyway keep it up. You have potential.

    Cheers mate, i'll take the compliments of a drunk person very happily.

    All my music has a dark tone, which i plan on carrying over into hip hop.


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    BLITZ_Molloy
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    Was listening to this track at the Kings of Concrete thing yesterday. Nice ominous vibes. I ended up rapping over SetOnes beat though.

    Thing I wouldn't be mad about on that one is the drums and hats sound a bit cheap and tinny. Synth sounds and everything else sound class though. Your style reminds me of Sleepybb a bit.


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    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    BLITZ_Molloy wrote: »
    Was listening to this track at the Kings of Concrete thing yesterday. Nice ominous vibes. I ended up rapping over SetOnes beat though.

    Thing I wouldn't be mad about on that one is the drums and hats sound a bit cheap and tinny. Synth sounds and everything else sound class though. Your style reminds me of Sleepybb a bit.

    In allk fairness, SetOnes beat was class. Thanks for the feedback as well, i'll experiment with abusing the percs a bit and finding a deeper sound with them.

    I'll do a rework and pop it up.

    Cheers mate.


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    Boom_Bap
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    Pretty good for someone who's just starting out, like Blitz said, need to work on them drums, they sound like drums that are pre-programmed into production s/w...whereas you should be looking with a little uuuummmpphhh to them.

    Other than that sounding good, reminds me a bit of a producer called DJ Signinfy


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    BLITZ_Molloy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭BLITZ_Molloy


    You're going to laugh at this Dragan. Some old lad walked by and spat over your beat (2 mins in). I think your drums must be a bit off because he seems to be losing the timing here and there.

    I'm in it towards the end around 8mins in after the hyperactive fella.


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    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Ha, that old lad scored me fourth place instead of no place. Gotta love that man, i'm in touch with the older generation.

    I sound like such a granny ****er right now.

    Anyways, i see what happened, it's just the intro to the song that people heard...it's got a pretty weird drum beat not really designed to take lyrics over it, when the intro sample stops the drums switch up and become a lot more MC friendly.

    Me thinks next time i'll write the full thing, but just send Kounter Kulture in the first verse section.

    Sweet.


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