I have awesome news: we’ve finally launched the World Around Records website. This is a quick rundown of the features and goals, plus three questions I’ve got about the site. Your answers are hugely and greatly appreciated.
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I’m writing this because I have divergent opinions. Everyone is trying to hype up their websites, and for the most part, everyone is lying. (This is pretty much the same in every other industry, too.) Audible Hype is written for smart kids, nerds who have (or at least want) actual lives and abundant free time to be outside.
Social media can be fun. However, promoting music on social media is only “fun” if you are literally and legally retarded. My list of tools reflects that opinion.
Sorry for the one week pause, party people. We’ve migrated servers (I told you August was Nerd Shit month) and it took awhile for the hiccups and SNAFUs to disappear. I’ve been itching to drop this interview for awhile now, because it is awesome. I’ve already interviewed the Madison hip hop scientist Man Mantis once before, and this is a richly detailed follow-up interview. We’re talking about the recording and mixing process for the latest dumate album, We Have the Technology, and going in on the technical, practical side of using the Akai MPC as a tool for both composition and performance.
Also: thank you and welcome to all the new readers. I have so much new material lined up it’s absurd. Although I always think it’s cheeseball as fuck when people say it, but for me it’s become the simple truth: Hip Hop is my life.
To finish off the summer season, we’re going to geek the fuck out here at Audible Hype. This site is going to take a long, detailed look at the largest and longest group project I’ve ever done: World Around Records. Welcome to 30 days of “more content per square inch.”
By the way, this post is more than an announcement, it’s also a disorganized goldmine of dope links and good articles and it goes a little something like...
This detailed discussion with Madison producer Man Mantis has a genuine wealth of information, so I’m running it to kick off a week of material focusing on hip hop production. Mantis is behind the MPC for Madison, Wisconsin live powerhouse dumate (all lower case, no typo) and Stink Tank, and he’s been elevating his hustle in 2009. This means staying busy, keeping humble, and even teaching school kids the art of making beats. Meet the Man Mantis.
Here, we’re going deep on sample culture, the creation process, and the 10,000 technical details that professionals eventually learn.
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