What did I do? What does this way of production offer me?

First, I browsed on youtube and searched for a jazz and soul sample. I then came across a sample by an artist called ‘Boscoe’. This song was called ‘Im what you need’ and I immediately dragged the sample into logic. This had to be inspired by RZA so I took a segment of the movie ‘Executioners From Shaolin’ which is one of the films that RZA sampled for the Wu-Tang clan. 

I got a laugh and a short part of dialogue from the movie  and added delay to that as the drums came in. I chopped the sample and completely degraded it but still left space for it to be identified as the original song. I also didn’t quantize the sample that I had because I wanted this to be executed naturally imperfectly. 

Due to the fact that this was a group task, I showed Joseph the sample and he is a drummer so he was able to come up with a drum beat that he thought would suit this sample. He did this by beatboxing how it should sound and then I was able to catch that and implement that into Logic. I then added a bouncy bassline which follows the notes of the sample. We produced an old  school beat with modern features to it. The drums are live sounds however we were able to make this sound old school but a lot cleaner and mixed better. 

I feel like this way of collaborative work is very effective. We did attempt to create a melody on the Akai S200. I do like the authenticity of the Akai. This is because it allows you to definitely connect with what you are actually making. 

The Akai has to load, and do many different things to actually be set up but this makes the music making real instead of opening a software, loading up a plugin and not actually having to wait for anything. I feel like this way of working makes you appreciate and really understand the levels of the older generation of music producers.