A mashup from the archives. 2007. Still waiting for Lil Jon and Andrew W.K. to tour together. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] MW – I Get Back Up

From johntaylorgatto.com [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Factory This is my first completed rap song. It’s about the negative feelings I have towards mandatory schooling. I’m pleased with how it turned out. The beat has a slightly different structure from Part 1. The rap vocals are three layers each panned differently and [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] action rap We’ve been talking about doing more collaboration on Hella Gems, so I decided to proceed unilaterally. There was part of Kelly G’s “Another for the Video Game” song (aka “action”) that I immediately thought could become a cool epic Dirty South rap beat if I slowed [...]

This is my first attempt at making a dirty south style rap beat. So far, I’ve found that the keys to making a good pitched snare roll, are to pick the right drum sound, and to transpose the drums by the proper interval. I think a splashy, hissy, fairly broadband snare sound works well. Of [...]