Adrian Younge Quotes
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Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.
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As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.
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We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.
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My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.
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The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.
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When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.
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'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it.
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I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.
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I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'
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My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.
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I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or let me rephrase: I've been doing this so long that I don't have to experiment as much. You always want to evolve and change, but if I go in and I know it's a certain type of song, I know exactly where I'm going to place the mics.
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I can't do too much musical movement with a lot of MC's, because they don't know how to follow me. But with Souls of Mischief, I could go anywhere because they are musicians - they rap as musicians, and they play instruments and produce, so they get that.
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I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.
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A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.
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I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.
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I'm a huge Stereolab fan.
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As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.
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I don't do anything digital. Everything is analog, and that's a limitation for me. However, in my world, it's not a limitation at all because I don't create the type of music that would generally be created by musicians that work with digital recording studios, and/or digital equipment, as far as production is concerned.
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When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get.
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People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.
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When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.
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Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.