Producer's Corner: Oddisee
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Artists like Kanye West and Pete Rock may have record sales and reputations on their side, but as far as emcee/producers are concerned, Oddisee’s talent and catalog are just as potent as his peers’. Getting his first big break by working with Jazzy Jeff on the cult-classic The Magnificent Oddisee has since spent much of his career crafting a mix of soulful soundbeds and trunk rattlers for compilations on his Halftooth Records label home and his Low Budget crew (which consists of Kenn Starr, Kev Brown and others), along with J-Live, Little Brother and other emcees. He further displayed his talents on the mic in 2006 with his Foot In The Door debut mixtape, which included new songs and splices of previous material he rapped and produced on, but rampant bootlegging of the project thwarted him from achieving the full-bodied buzz he had intended to make as a dual threat.
Last year, Oddisee took things into his own hands, offering the Oddisee 101 mixtape—which featured the likes of LB, Jean Grae, Zion I and others—as a free download on his blog In an interview with HipHopDX’s Producer’s Corner, Oddisee talks about his growth as a producer, two upcoming projects with new emcees, and getting paid for your product.
HipHopDX: What’s your background in music, before you started working with Jazzy Jeff?
Oddisee: From a technical standpoint, I started out with the ASR-X, made by Ensoniq. It’s not the ASR 10 that people mistake it for, that’s the keyboard version. The X was basically Ensoniq’s answer to the MPC. They made a box version with pads to compete with the MPC. It didn’t go as good; the MPC flourished, and the ASR got discontinued. I just got into a bit more of the grassroots forms of Hip Hop more than the glossy stuff toward the beginning of my career. Now, I’ve grown to appreciate it all. But as far as the beginning, I was somewhat of a purist. I would only sample from records, I wouldn’t take samples that had already been used, and [although] of those invisible stipulations and guidelines which complete nonsense to me now, I love when I first started making music.
Read the rest of the interview here....
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1157
Last year, Oddisee took things into his own hands, offering the Oddisee 101 mixtape—which featured the likes of LB, Jean Grae, Zion I and others—as a free download on his blog In an interview with HipHopDX’s Producer’s Corner, Oddisee talks about his growth as a producer, two upcoming projects with new emcees, and getting paid for your product.
HipHopDX: What’s your background in music, before you started working with Jazzy Jeff?
Oddisee: From a technical standpoint, I started out with the ASR-X, made by Ensoniq. It’s not the ASR 10 that people mistake it for, that’s the keyboard version. The X was basically Ensoniq’s answer to the MPC. They made a box version with pads to compete with the MPC. It didn’t go as good; the MPC flourished, and the ASR got discontinued. I just got into a bit more of the grassroots forms of Hip Hop more than the glossy stuff toward the beginning of my career. Now, I’ve grown to appreciate it all. But as far as the beginning, I was somewhat of a purist. I would only sample from records, I wouldn’t take samples that had already been used, and [although] of those invisible stipulations and guidelines which complete nonsense to me now, I love when I first started making music.
Read the rest of the interview here....
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1157
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