“Leaving Earth” e’ il nuovo album di Dj Unknown
Dj Unknown ha unito le forze con Trinumedia per unire CGI e animazione con la musica, più che un album un’esperienza immersiva, a cavallo tra sci-fi e distopia, tradottasi in “Leaving Earth”. In general – racconta l’artista, I started this record as an attempt to pay homage to Dj Shadow’s classic album “Entroducing…..”. I spent six months listening to records and cataloguing samples, as I wanted to produce a full length, sample based album that had many moods and arrangements. After digging in the crates, I started working on the songs. I produced three beats over a weekend that were mostly one section loops, and that’s when I got stuck. All the samples I catalogued still sounded dope on their own, but I had trouble visualising how to string any of them together within a single song to create different arrangements. One weekend, after sitting on those beats for about a week, I decided to take a fresh approach that I hadn’t done before. I loaded up an electric guitar VST and jammed some guitar riffs on some open drums on song one, “Farewell”. What happened next caught me off guard, as I these riffs that just started pouring out of me. Over the course of the next two weeks I wrote the entire “Leaving Earth” album using a blend of samples and VST instruments. It was a true moment of inspiration, all the music I loved outside of Hip-Hop was pouring through me and manifesting in this album. All the while, I started forming this story narrative about a dj who feels trapped on earth, and longs to leave the planet to explore the wonders of the universe. I had the whole album done, and started playing it for my band mates – and their response was universal this music is fantastic dude, but you gotta let us play the rock arrangements as a band. And thus, the final interaction of this album was born – a hybrid of sample based Hip-Hop with live band hard rock, with a dj as the lead. I am not sure there’s anything really like it out there, but in spirit, I think it’s still a direct descendent of “Entroducing…..”. L’uscita è accompagnata dal video di “Farewell”.
Bra
Ultimi post di Bra (vedi tutti)
