Jam Burglar Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Me, Alf of Hip Hop Slam, DJ Ragz and DJ Select have linked up maybe 3 or 4 times now for scratch sessions. The first time, it was really just your typical trading bars with a very limited amount of composition. The second time we started spending more time delving into composition, just making it up as we go along. By the third session we progressed into mostly improvising compositions, sometimes rocking over a drum machine, sometimes using beats from a producer named Unown (who Ragz worked with on his group the "Jazz Addixx") and sometimes using scratch drums as a base layer. Anyway, last week Ragz tells us that he gave the recordings to Unown. Turns out Unown turned the recordings (mostly the third session but also a thing or two from the second session) into an album. This was a really cool gesture and a nice surprise! If you want to check it out you can listen here https://vibejars.bandcamp.com/releases And just to be clear, there was absolutely no planning, no talking about what samples to use, and nobody even knowing who's going to do what at any given moment. We just hook up our turntables and vibe out for a few hours. Aside from some slop you get from winging it, I'm a little floored at how easy it is to make music like this. If you are into this type of experimental thing and have a few DJ friends I highly recommend trying this sort of thing out. Here's a little promo that Alf did: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xpx8VAOPX 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHouse Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Hmmm, Instagram isn't embedding, so I can't see this. Anybody having this problem? I'm using the latest FireFox browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Burglar Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 I'm using Google Chrome and it works. Are you on Instagram JHouse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHouse Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I just tested it out on Chrome and the video shows fine. I'm not on Instagram, but prolly pulling that trigger soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerpot Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I like no2, 5 and 10 nice album cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKJoy Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 damn dude, wish I could scratch. cool to hear about your process too.whole project is dope, I dig the basement vibe on track 5, melodic jazz vibe on track 6, dystopian vibes on track 7, in particularthought track 10 was a great outro as well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Burglar Posted May 18, 2020 Author Share Posted May 18, 2020 Thanks for the feedback guys. Now if we were all 20 years old and had gobs of time to practice together 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danswift Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 This is sick as fuck J.B.! .. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaytoo Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 This is great, had a blast listening to it. No Lid Technic and Recycle the Emptys were particular highlights for me, NLT gave me some serious DJ Shadow vibes. Loving your work man. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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