From Bill VanLoo Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 18:46
From Bill VanLoo Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 18:46
> If I made a track that sampled Ae, Aphex and SQP and made it into a pop
> hit, would I get similar cred among you guys? I mean, really. Who gives
> a shit? I like The Police, doesn't mean I think Puffy deserves any
> recognition beyond that of your average poser. What has Timbaland done
> that's so deserving of respect besides take IDM and techno-like
> structures and use them as hip-hop wallpaper? If he had to make his way
> like most folks, with simple instrumentals, we'd be calling him another
> Ae clone at worst and a one-trick pony at best.
> Pass me the Schematics, please.
It's all about what you do with what you sample.
Timbaland takes Bjork's strings, a baby's rattle and cry, and turns it into a
freaky jam (see "Hit em wit da hee remix").
Puffy takes The Police, loops 4 bars for the whole track and makes a
multi-million dollar Hype Williams video to accompany it. Big deal.
Pass me the Timbaland. He's one of the most innovative producers this decade.
Witness all the beat-jacking that he's endured. I can't wait to see his
revenge upon those who choose to jack his style. I'm guessing it'll be
somewhere between Oval and drum-n-bass with the funk of Virginia in the mix.
See the comments in the Rolling Stone (or was it Vibe?) article about Missy
Elliott, discussing Timbaland's new "skipping-record" style of sampling (like
a "I needchhh...I needchhhhhhh....I need your looooove" sort of thing).
Bottom line, Timbaland is innovative and funky. Puffy, in general, is just a
multi-platinum beat-jacker. However, his tracks are funky at times (I don't
give a damn, some of the Notorious B.I.G. tracks are dope, and "It's all about
the benjamins" guitar loop was great.)
Bill / dj marathon
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