After a wild storm came ripping through Mississauga on Wednesday another wild storm was brewing the following Thursday... Thirsty Thursday. Bloggin Blodgett and DJ Vader met up for another session of The Garage Talk Chronicles. On the agenda this week was a number of topics but one in particular was music production. DJ Vader is a producer of Drum and Bass and some hip hop. Vader has released a few EPs on I tunes you can follow him on Twitter as well as SoundCloud a newer Social Music Community. Raised in Mississauga he has spent much of the last ten years outside of school and work developing his production skills. This was one of the topics on the table as we enjoyed a bit of Crest and Remy Ma. While in his own right DJ Vader is a humble man yet he still recognizes his own growth as a producer. I have had the privilege of knowing him for about 16 years and we spent much of our high school lunches together listening to hip hop mix-tape cassettes sharing headphones one ear bud in an ear sharing a little box of french fries. This is where much of the love for the underground began for F.O.2.d.X .as we have always called him. It was during the commercialization of the Rave Scene where underground for a short lived time came into the spot light and this is where Vader stumbled upon DNB and in so many words fell in love. Since the early 2000's he has spent time making mix-tapes and slowly began to throw his own track's in the mix. Since then he has in many ways begun the road to perfecting his sound. A few years back Vader launched Sinister Recordings the label which he now releases his EPs under. A dream of Vader's that dates back to the origin of the term of Sinister Six itself but that's a long story that we'll save for another day.
About four years ago Vader also began experimenting with Hip Hop production and this in some ways ties in with how The Garage Talk Chronicles began as well as Thirsty Thursday's. So this past Thursday we were discussing a little about Classical Hip Hop and the new music which later sparked a discussion about the evolution of music production which in essence sparked the topic of this blog post.
Music production has come a long way. From records to crackling tapes, to when DJ's were actual DJ's and mixed songs (hence mix-tapes) ... now they just yell words over songs they were given to promote. A conversation that DJ Vader and I have had and a style that we have criticized relentlessly for some time. Music now is much different than when we were growing. Most of it is electronically produced and that's why much of the DNB, Trance, Dub Step and many of the new Rap sounds is mixed in the category of Electronica. That being said there is a lot of tools that help with the trade. While the latest pirated apps may assist a producer, Vader has been around long enough to have experimented with a variety of equipment. His growth as a producer has begun to emerge as his own sound style takes to the streets, the radio and now his own commercial releases. Keep an ear to SoundCloud for upcoming projects and mix cds.
Look for Part II of Garage Talk Chronicles : Turn the Beat Up this weekend.
