Yeah so.
I went yesterday but today I'm staying home with my Margaritas (Herbie, I don't drink white wine unless that's all there is).
I went to a conference featuring the editor of Remix Magazine, Jeru, Jae Millz, Needlz, Cipha Sounds (A&R for Rawkus and now producer in his own right) and this other cat Jay-Jay representing Defected (house music).
JERU WAS SO GENUINE but apparently cashless.
The other guys were so into the paper it was unimpressive (but rich apparently, Needlz got publishing on The Game's album).
On the technology side, I attended the Digidesign Pro Tools conference and picked up some tabs from them kids.
Very impressive was Akai's new MPD-16 which is a USB/MIDI Pad control surface (think of the MPC pads without all the other bollocks that just plugs straight into your computer). Another display was Stanton's Final Scratch 2 AMP which resolves Final Scratch 1's latency issues and allows for 24bit recording. Akai's new MPC is quite impressive too. It gives the user the feel of the original MPC but with USB compatibility (the MPC1000 was USB but was limited in its MIDI and Interface capabilities). Serato's "Scratch Live" seemed hot cause they were the only scratch product that used a scratch DJ for their demo, DJ Babu.
I'm too wasted to go today but I will go tommorrow. The panel will include Jimi Kendrix (Jay-Z, Ja Rule), Mathematics & U-God (Wu-Tang), Grandmaster Caz & Tony Tone (Cold Crush Brothers), and others, but me be lazy to list 'em all.
Me also keep you up 2 date on developments.
Ken Masturbs
Milking the Bovines In Hell's Kitchen.
#04 June 2005 | Comments (6)