Taken from J. Dilla’s Rough Draft EP, this is “Take Notice” like you’ve never heard before, performed by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the Suite for Ma Dukes orchestra and mixed and mastered by legendary Grammy award-winning producer/mixer Bob Power (you there? turn up the bass and level, make my shit sound clear). Download the mp3 here.
This performance went down February 22, 2009 in LA, but the video is being released as part of a DVD box set, titled Timeless, on March 30, 2010.
Timeless describes moments outside of time— moments that exist so deep inside history that they break through that finite grid. Timeless: The Composer/Arranger Series is an homage to the composer-arrangers that have influenced hip-hop in the most literal and profound ways.The creative center of popular music today is the beatmaker-producer. Whether it is Timbaland, Dilla, Dre, or Madlib, these musicians have an uncanny sense for voicings, a penchant for unusual sounds and catchy rhythms and a magical ability to manufacture a good performance. Today’s beatmakers are the direct descendants of yesterday’s composer-arrangers. Their processes—whether it be writing a memorable line for background singers or finding the appropriate moment for a baritone harmonica — mirror those of today’s musicians. The composer-arranger creates music through the frame of the bigger picture, often more concerned with how things sound together than individually. Similarly today’s beatmakers produce music on a grand scale, but through automation and sampling.
Timeless brings these two seemingly unlike worlds together. The series honors the musical legacies of some of the greatest composer-arrangers ever. Timeless celebrates the work of the composer-arranger in the context it should be seen—with full orchestras.
Timeless: A Suite For Ma Dukes, a four-song orchestral EP produced by Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood Ferguson, was released back in February of last year and is available on itunes.
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J Dilla – Take Notice (60 piece orchestral refix) | Blogrebellen Kreuzberg
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