Nice little clip of producer Mark Ronson in the lab, cutting some really good tracks for Hip Hop artist Nas. Beautiful drums and piano.

Mark Ronson “Fried Chicken”

Here’s a link to Gabriel Roth’s inspiring “How To…” on the ever so fascinating topic of Heavy Funk music, especially for composing, arranging, performing and recording. Shitty is pretty.

Part 1

Part 2

So, what is music? fragt Christine Smallwood vom (generell grossartigen) News-Medium The Nation ganz unbescheiden den ehemaligen Pulp Frontmann. Jarvis hat einiges, sehr interessantes zu erzählen, von seinem ipod, loops und downloads. Besonders schön finde ich, wie er mit seiner Band in einer Gallerie in Paris geprobt hat:

“We set up in this small gallery space and rehearsed, and every now and again we’d have hours where people would bring an instrument and play along, and then we provided the music to different classes, like a yoga class and a belly-dancing class. What I liked was that there were spontaneous moments–the music happened for ten minutes or however long it took, and then it was gone.”

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