I figured I’d throw up the track list and production credits for Jay-Z’s newest release (on Sept 11th), Blueprint 3. So here it is. Click “Read More” to view.
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2 September 2009
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Marketing Yourself
Hip hop beat making is definately a weird choice for an entrepreneurial career because people usually start off doing it just for fun, and then (if they get good) one thing leads to another and money is coming their way. Because of this there is never a business …
5 May 2008
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Jimmy Iovine talking about the industry for a bit. Some interesting shit. It’s nice to hear someone who’s been in the business for so long talking about things like this. Check it out here.
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21 February 2008
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Hello there readers of the producer’s den. Sorry for the lack of updates as of late, but i’ve been very busy with things that don’t involve this site, haha. Within the next month, there should hopefully be some reviewing, tutorial-writing, news posting, and all that good stuff again.
Also, if anybody …
14 February 2008
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Two new tutorials are up, both of which you should (hopefully) enjoy. Check them out. Making Bass with a Low-Pass Filter is a tutorial on how to get some nice basss out of the samples you’re already working with, and Making Grimy Drums is a list of a few ways …
24 October 2007
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Recording Contracts
This is a short article by an attorney on the basics of record contracts. For somebody who has no idea what they are doing when it comes to signing to a record label, this can be of some use. It uses plain English and does a good job at …
18 October 2007
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Dr Dre Makin' Beats
All these people debating all of the time, “HARDWARES BETTER!” .. “NO, SOFTWARES BETTER!” .. who gives a fuck? Check out this nice mix of some VSTs and some hardware to boot.
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11 October 2007
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Rick Rubin
Here’s an article by the NY Times about industry mogul co-founder of Def Jam Rick Rubin’s latest switch to Columbia Records. (If you don’t know about Rick Rubin, then find out.)
There’s two problems with this article
It’s very long
It’s written in a pretencious narrative style that can be annoying
However, …
6 September 2007
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Well, browsing through Youtube I found a nice video describing sample inversion and showing you how to do it using Adobe Audition. This is a good technique for stripping vocals and making acapellas. So, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, then hop on over to it and check …
6 September 2007
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Graduation
Kanye West has released the tracklisting to his upcoming third album Graduation, set to drop on the 11th of September. It seems straight. The main thing that I noticed was that it is very slimmed down compared to his other two in regards of features and skits. …
8 August 2007
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