Digging in The Crates (v)- the art of seeking out records to sample for productions
Back in the day Hip Hop DJs and producers like DJ Premier, Buckwild, Pete Rock, etc. were notorious for owning thousands and thousands of rare vinyls and obscure records that they sample break loops, drumbeats, or vocals from. They were known for searchin through record stores and garage sales just to find that one record where they could sample a 3 second drum loop that no had. Records were usually stored in milk crates and they would dig through these crates in order to create original montages of sounds by looping, splicing, and chopping the samples they had. Many classic hip hop records were created by sampling like Nas's Illmatic, Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die, Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, etc.
I have always admired the collections of music that these people had but never really had the money to buy CDs. And since most music has become digitalized, it is so much easier to download an album off the internet then go to a record store and buy a CD. My collection so far is pretty small, but I still want to expand my collection as a way to support the artists.
So as a way to display my desire for a bigger collection of music, I was going to make fake albums as placeholders to remind myself to replace these fake albums with real albums. I was thinking of using a variety of different mediums to reproduce these albums. I was thinking of drawing some by hand, using stencils, etc.
Back in the day Hip Hop DJs and producers like DJ Premier, Buckwild, Pete Rock, etc. were notorious for owning thousands and thousands of rare vinyls and obscure records that they sample break loops, drumbeats, or vocals from. They were known for searchin through record stores and garage sales just to find that one record where they could sample a 3 second drum loop that no had. Records were usually stored in milk crates and they would dig through these crates in order to create original montages of sounds by looping, splicing, and chopping the samples they had. Many classic hip hop records were created by sampling like Nas's Illmatic, Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die, Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, etc.
I have always admired the collections of music that these people had but never really had the money to buy CDs. And since most music has become digitalized, it is so much easier to download an album off the internet then go to a record store and buy a CD. My collection so far is pretty small, but I still want to expand my collection as a way to support the artists.
So as a way to display my desire for a bigger collection of music, I was going to make fake albums as placeholders to remind myself to replace these fake albums with real albums. I was thinking of using a variety of different mediums to reproduce these albums. I was thinking of drawing some by hand, using stencils, etc.
This is a stencil i have made before of an album cover and i plan to reuse:
This is going to be great. Let me know if you need any help thinking further about the sculptural installation ideas we were talking about in class... Best, Marcus
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