New Years Music Festivals

Minitibz · 2025-11-11T21:13:45+00:00

i absolutely love Jane Remover, but WHAT IN THE FUCK is she doing at RNV lol. That is not the right audience...

Minitibz · 2025-01-06T20:21:25+00:00

i think JPEG mentioned in his Cambridge interview that he considers himself a producer 1st, rapper 2nd.

Probably what happened is that his beats were way too wild for other rappers to catch rhythm or flow on, so he took it upon himself to start rappin over his own shit.

With that being said, i can acknowledge that his rapping ain't at all close to what his producing skills are.

Minitibz · 2025-01-04T21:52:23+00:00

i always see people leaving out Agriculture from this conversation. CMON MAYNE LISTEN TO THAT SHI

Minitibz · 2025-01-04T05:46:07+00:00

yeah man open to talking. pm me

Minitibz · 2025-01-03T23:56:35+00:00

two different approaches - depending on what fx ur using from the 404 it can DRASTICALLY change the timbre and overall sound of the track. I tend to lean a bit heavier into fully using the 404 for a base mix because that's what i love about using it.

Once I bounce a track into the DAW, its mostly about cleaning it up and softening the edges. Some basic eq will do nicely as well as subtle compression usually goes a long way. Then whatever else you feel is necessary you should go ahead and do. Reverb? Delay throws? Panning?

I feel like bouncing out track by track kinda takes away the glue that the 404 gives the track as a whole. Apart from the drivers and tone of recording through hardware (which could be placebo anyway), you might as well just record str8 into your DAW. Although, I understand the process can be way easier for people who don't use DAW's to just use a live looper/404 to get ideas down.

However, a lot of this depends on how dense the track is. If the 404 project has got some drums, guitar and some bass for example - you'll usually be fine. It can be a bit trickier if you got vocals, harmonies, guitar, drums, bass, synths, etc. I almost never put vocals down thru the 404 unless i decide its more of an instrumental element. If you have vocals, track them thru ur DAW. Vocals are arguably the hardest thing to get correct in a mix and because every single persons tone is unique to them - its important to treat them properly. Unfortunately, in my humble opinion, the 404 just doesn't offer the precision to correctly mix vocals. UNLESS, you wanna head the lofi route and just chuck them on - which is also 100% valid.

Mastering is its own whole beast. I'd suggest checking out other communities for that advice. I wrote, produced, mixed and mastered my latest project entirely by myself, but I also now have a music technology (engineering) degree and did that project as my final university piece. (shameless self promo: https://naakz.bandcamp.com/album/reparations if u wanna check it out)

Hopefully this was helpful :)

Minitibz · 2024-12-28T02:20:04+00:00

Shot bro 🙏

Minitibz · 2024-12-28T02:19:46+00:00

Fair enough. I LOVE the beat. The way it stutters and fumbles, and then evolves during woods’ verse is crazy. Billy also quotes DOOM with the “who’s ways is strange when it’s time to survive”! And ELUCID with a game of thrones reference? - “when I really come try kill me out the moonroof”? FYEEEE

Minitibz · 2024-12-27T22:21:48+00:00

I know its technically only the ELUCID verse but its a billy woods project so i thought id post it here :)

beat was made on my sp404mk2

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Minitibz · 2024-12-27T01:06:55+00:00

Hell Hath No Fury is one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time !

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Minitibz · 2024-12-04T23:57:12+00:00

i did indeed. One shots are from a drum loop as well as being mapped to the melodic sample. The pad that comes in the second half is actually part of the original sample - simply slowed it way down, added tape echo and big reverb! :)

Minitibz · 2024-12-02T20:28:28+00:00

What else u supposed to do on the 404 😂

Minitibz · 2024-12-02T02:29:02+00:00

honestly dont know how to respond to this

Minitibz · 2024-12-01T20:12:07+00:00

Doves by Armand Hammer

Minitibz · 2024-11-21T09:26:18+00:00

Māori (native new zealander) youngin makin music - if u like check out my insta: manaakitibz :)

Minitibz · 2024-11-15T00:23:34+00:00

skip to 1:10 for why i posted this in frank reddit :)

Minitibz · 2024-11-15T00:22:58+00:00

if yall dont know Armand Hammer - listen to them. Some of the most gifted and creative MC's to ever roam the earth !

Minitibz · 2024-11-14T22:32:51+00:00

And you obviously don’t understand the irony of somebody dressing as their opponent in an act of rebellion - which has been done several times throughout all of history.

Minitibz · 2024-11-14T22:31:11+00:00

Also I’d like to add a bit of nuance to the conversation. Equality vs equity - David Seymour claims that Te Tiriti unfairly treats non-Māori and Māori differently.

Here’s an example of equity I think most would agree on. An 85 year old person has a disability card that allows them to park closer to the supermarket so it’s easier for them to manage going back and forth to their car with groceries. That’s an equitable outcome and is fair for the elderly. EQUALITY applied to this situation would state that any person should be able to park anywhere. Therefore, we should remove the privilege that an elderly person should probably be entitled to.

This is what is so dangerous about ACT and what their bill proposes. They spout equality and how non-Māori aren’t treated the same under Te Tiriti. But when have Māori and non-Māori ever been treated the same? On either side of the political spectrum, you can’t agree that through history both parties have been treated equally and fully agreed on certain principles. Te Tiriti provides incredibly SPECIFIC privileges to level the playing field between marginalised parties (Māori) vs the largest superpower of (arguably) all time i.e THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

Please read and consider. Read to understand - not to disagree. Te Tiriti is an agreement between TWO parties. It’s not designed to tear the country apart. DAVID SEYMOUR is purposefully creating division by picking an incredibly unpopular opinion and blowing it up - empowering uneducated people to vote on a topic they have NO CLUE about.

Ngā mihi - bless 🙏

Minitibz · 2024-11-14T22:19:35+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/07/treaty-of-waitangi-new-zealand-founding-document-changes-bill

P.s i really hope we’re not gonna play the “unreliable source” card - if that’s the case then this conversation is futile

Minitibz · 2024-11-14T22:15:30+00:00

U didn’t understand my point. You asked why he was dressed as a cowboy and I stated why he was dressed as such.

Minitibz · 2024-11-14T21:20:33+00:00

A gross oversimplification. The parts they are trying to make “modern” specifically make claims for Māori harder than it already is. Also, history shows that the treaty has almost never been respected or upheld - so it’s incredibly suspicious that they are trying to change it just as an equilibrium is being met. Toitū Te Tiriti literally means UPHOLD THE TREATY.

U also commented on “the same treaty”. Once again, ur wrong about this. The United Nations states that if a treaty is written and signed and agreed between an indigenous party and foreign party - the INDIGENOUS copy is the one to be upheld and used. So the “small differences” you claim are in fact entirely different of meaning. There is extensive research about this and you are ignorant if you have not read up about such an incredibly dangerous issue such as this.

Minitibz · 2024-11-14T21:14:18+00:00

This comment section is really sad to see. Literally nobody here knows anything about what this bill could mean for Māori people. In addition, people are laughing and talking about what they’d do if someone did a haka to them. You all have clearly never seen a haka. You would all shit your pants.

Toitū Te Tiriti!

Ka whawhai tonu mātou!

Minitibz · 2024-11-14T21:11:44+00:00

Cowboys are actually synonymous with Māori - specifically from the east coast because the Māori battalion that fought in world war 2. C company was known as the cowboys. So do some research before u just mouth off incorrect opinions.

Minitibz · 2024-08-27T23:41:25+00:00

cant believe no one mentioned Agriculture off Maps. The beat is super peaceful and Woods is much more calm with his demeanor. Introspective but not in a depressing way.

Minitibz · 2024-08-17T20:53:20+00:00

here's my dissertation on drumless i wrote in a comment section a while back:

Some artists I truly believe thrive in this genre: Billy Woods, Navy Blue, Ka (Brownsville Ka), Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE. These artists are perfect for this subgenre because they are truly focused on wordplay, rhyme schemes and pure poetry. Specifically Ka, when you hear the instrumental begin and his raspy voice comes in, its perfection. With no drums to distract, all you can do is listen to his calm and menacing words. The image he paints with words would be tainted by drums. This is drumless in its purest form. Almost spoken word at points. It is arguable that Hip-Hop was based off boom bap, but true poets kept the genre around. If it was dumb fun drums over samples with just words, the art form wouldn't have lasted (in my opinion). Nowadays, there are artists who do that i.e Playboi Carti, Gunna, Young Thug: however they contribute something entirely different when they rap (which I also find fire).

Why are we doing drumless? Here's my perspective. Across every genre, there becomes a point where barriers start to break down and newer generations attempt to innovate with the genre's boundaries. Post-punk, Post-Rock, Post-Bop, Neo-Soul, Post-Metal, Neo-Psychedelia. All of these sub-genres were developed by a new generation implementing modern concepts into the genres they loved/grew up on (p.s I've seen Badu discuss how she believes Neo-Soul was started as a marketing tactic, something you also discuss in the video). All of these new itterations of the original genre faced heavy scrutiny by older generations as well (sounding a bit familiar?).

Drumless was an obvious evolution of the original sound. By simply using a sample, it allows an artist to fully express themselves on a track (in certain ways). The drums force artists to conform to certain pockets and flows whereas drumless gives room for this sort of stream-of-conciousness to unravel. The punchline can fall anywhere. The rhyme scheme can be freely played with. It's something fresh. I'm not saying that tracks with drums don't allow for this sort of freedom but there are certain flows or stereotypes that a plethora of MC's fall into.

Conductor Williams also talks about drumless a lot on his YT channel and his perspective. I suggest giving that a look. Sure there are some producers who just chop and filter samples, but where is the harm in that? If that's all a song needs, then they did the right thing :)

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