This week's selection: Cuthead's unrivaled Mitsubishi
I find myself short of words. Every once in a while you come across a track that (as a beat-maker) makes you want to stop and give it all up; the kind of beat you always wanted to make, and you hear it and it's like, damn, too late. Someone got here first. Well, I just had this experience (not the first time, but this track hit me hard) listening to this one.
Cuthead. You read it here, folks. Fucking Cuthead! All his tracks are of a level far above my own, but this track smacked me like a ton of bricks across the face. I have much to learn--a freaking padawan, indeed. Cuthead, show me the way forward!
The beat comes in layer by layer, those toms kinda throw you off at first, and then that Japanese chopped up vocal. Okay, not groundbreaking, but dope. That three part kinda chain snare, right? Well cut up samples for sure (you'd hope, right? I mean Cuthead, right?), but suddenly at about the 50 second mark, something's up. A nice little instrumental sample, chopped to perfection, looped, cut off at different points, very nicely. At the 1:30 mark all hell breaks loose. Stutters, chops, and then BLAM. Perfection. He brings in the fucking Japanese kid's choir; brings in the rhodes/square bass/cuts, cuts, and more cuts. You lose track of the layers. And then the square bass closes it out. Class dismissed.
As I said, for a few days I couldn't even touch the keys. Fear not though, I'm back. Bar set higher than ever. Apparently this fella's been around for quite a while, and he's got a pretty lengthy discography so my usual standards of going for more obscure artists might be in peril here, but I just had to share this one. It appears he's German, and he had tour dates scheduled throughout Europe, mostly in Germany all summer so it looks like he's largely known across the pond, as they say. Anyway, all hail - this guy can chop up a sample!
As always, check my music out too. I'm giving out codes for free copies of my album, just check out my facebook page and find the recent post where I offer them! Winter isn't coming here in New York, it's already here! Stay warm, folks.
