Hi! I'm Lee. Welcome to my blog. Here we talk music: news, reviews, interviews, tips, tutorials and more. I'm also working on the upcoming podcast Influenced as a guest, writer and researcher alongside music aficionado Mark Williams and friends. Watch this space! I have been a lover of music for as long as I can remember, an amateur lyricist for 25 years, a music writer for 15 years and a hobbyist musician and blogger for almost 10 years. My tastes range from jazz to house to hip hop and I love helping artists from all genres develop their sound. My music, videos, reviews and interviews have been featured in a variety of magazines and websites, including: B-Boy Tech Report Gimme That Beat Humanhuman Audio Skills Dream House Beats Where Did the Road Go Beat Tape Co-Op Push Power Promo Drum Magazine You can find my music on Bandcamp: Monkey Mind Sounds AKA LeeTNB And you can find me on Facebook: The New Beatmaker page Lee's personal page
REVIEW: Inspiring album haunts sonic space
Ile Flottante draws inspiration from some of hip hop's finest producers; the off-kilter drums of Rza, DOOM and J Dilla; and the suspenseful sample stabs and gorgeous jazz loops of DJ Premier.
The beatmaker specializes in over-saturation and distortion; and jazz samples float through the air as if being played through a dusty gramaphone in a long-abandoned attic. These effects create a mood which is both reassuring familiar and unnervingly 'different', sometimes even on the same cut.
It's as if the samples are not 'samples', but are the ghosts of music once played, haunting the sonic space just above contemporary, break-neck drums and lashings of warm bass grooves.
'It's as if the samples are the ghosts of music once played, haunting the sonic space just above break-neck drums and warm bass grooves.'
Tracks like the melancholy 'Jasmine', the marauding 'A Long Way from Chinatown', and the playful 'Jus Playin' are a collection of beats that lyricists of any persuasion - be they MC's, singers or poets - are likely to find inspiration in.
soulfulchemistry.bandcamp.com/album/ile-flottante-sploops
Ile Flottante draws inspiration from some of hip hop's finest producers; the off-kilter drums of Rza, DOOM and J Dilla; and the suspenseful sample stabs and gorgeous jazz loops of DJ Premier.
The beatmaker specializes in over-saturation and distortion; and jazz samples float through the air as if being played through a dusty gramaphone in a long-abandoned attic. These effects create a mood which is both reassuring familiar and unnervingly 'different', sometimes even on the same cut.
It's as if the samples are not 'samples', but are the ghosts of music once played, haunting the sonic space just above contemporary, break-neck drums and lashings of warm bass grooves.
Tracks like the melancholy 'Jasmine', the marauding 'A Long Way from Chinatown', and the playful 'Jus Playin' are a collection of beats that lyricists of any persuasion - be they MC's, singers or poets - are likely to find inspiration in.
soulfulchemistry.bandcamp.com/album/ile-flottante-sploops