Mimar the Beat Curator's Seventh Pick - CUTH
Mimar the Beat Curator’s Weekly Spotlight - April 27th, 2016: CUTH
Well lucky sevens abound, my seventh edition of this here little blog thingy features a beat-maker that can't miss. Towards the UK shines our inconsequential little spotlight, as we present a master of the chopped up and programmed sample; CUTH, out of Brighton. The man seems to have a lot of oldies on hand, and while I've always been scared of using this kind of music, only having done it sparingly, this beat-maker makes it more than work. Anyway, it's CUTH for version 7 of this here irregularly produced little ugly duckling of a music source. Enjoy!
This time around, I'm pointing you guys to CUTH's Mittens (or The Put Down, or Walkaway, so many to choose from!). I wanted to put Onra up here, but I felt like it went against the spirit of what I'm trying to do. Onra is well known and hardly qualifies as 'undiscovered' or unique to what I'm listening to, in particular. With that said, Onra has been so influential for me, up there with Dilla, madlib, doom, blockhead and others, so I'm pleased I found this guy.
First off, it's not fair to CUTH to just say that he 'sounds like Onra' - the man has an original sound, especially pertaining to the samples he uses, which largely consist of what sound to me like a blend of 50s and 60s rock and roll/doo wop records, with a bunch of funk and soul for good measure (any good beat-maker worth his/her salt has to have some on hand, I suppose). The way he chops them up is what is, to me, very reminiscent of Onra, particularly his first two volumes of the Chinoiseries (Ladies and gentlemen, part 3 is coming too, if you didn't know, brace yourselves...!). Anyway, I have no disdain for another artist having a similar style as their musical inspiration, in fact, because onra himself had seemed to have moved on to new territory musically (see Fundamentals), I'm even glad someone has kept up that chinoiseries style. Anyway, his music is not so singular, CUTH shows an array of styles and skills, so don't think I'm accusing him of anything - far from it, the man, cumulatively, has a dope style that's completely his own.
Lastly, for a shameless plug, I'd like to steer your attention to FREE MUSIC! I released a bunch of my older tracks, and mixed them up with some 'theme tracks' into a kind of album. I wanted to mix tracks and link them like albums used to be in the pre digital days, when we used to buy full albums and listen to them from beginning to end. The end result is that each track alone may be slightly less coherent, but if you have a moment, and want to listen to an album like we used to back in the old days, please go ahead and download it! It's on bandcamp, cdbaby, and up on soundcloud (but no t downloadable there), so please have a listen, leave comments, and hopefully, enjoy! Enjoy this spring weather, it's gonna be a hot summer, folks!
First off, it's not fair to CUTH to just say that he 'sounds like Onra' - the man has an original sound, especially pertaining to the samples he uses, which largely consist of what sound to me like a blend of 50s and 60s rock and roll/doo wop records, with a bunch of funk and soul for good measure (any good beat-maker worth his/her salt has to have some on hand, I suppose). The way he chops them up is what is, to me, very reminiscent of Onra, particularly his first two volumes of the Chinoiseries (Ladies and gentlemen, part 3 is coming too, if you didn't know, brace yourselves...!). Anyway, I have no disdain for another artist having a similar style as their musical inspiration, in fact, because onra himself had seemed to have moved on to new territory musically (see Fundamentals), I'm even glad someone has kept up that chinoiseries style. Anyway, his music is not so singular, CUTH shows an array of styles and skills, so don't think I'm accusing him of anything - far from it, the man, cumulatively, has a dope style that's completely his own.
Lastly, for a shameless plug, I'd like to steer your attention to FREE MUSIC! I released a bunch of my older tracks, and mixed them up with some 'theme tracks' into a kind of album. I wanted to mix tracks and link them like albums used to be in the pre digital days, when we used to buy full albums and listen to them from beginning to end. The end result is that each track alone may be slightly less coherent, but if you have a moment, and want to listen to an album like we used to back in the old days, please go ahead and download it! It's on bandcamp, cdbaby, and up on soundcloud (but no t downloadable there), so please have a listen, leave comments, and hopefully, enjoy! Enjoy this spring weather, it's gonna be a hot summer, folks!
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