Audio Delight
I had a great talk with Tess today. I don't know if it was going over her head or not, but I really feel like it was going back to Justin of the old days.
So.
I have GREAT respect for Timbaland.
When he first came out with Missy, he made beats that were kinda out there. They were awesome and all, but they were just kinda weird a bit. However, they worked. They worked because they fit in with Missy's style. So kinda out there for the time, they were doing something different. It was a fresh sound that really was heavy with the drums. Something like this, one of my favorite early Missy songs, off of her first cd, "Supa Dupa Fly".
Sock it 2 Me
That was my first taste of his sound. He came through with some heat. I love the bass and the percussion on that song.
Then, he hooked up with Aaliyah. This was a monumental time, because his beats help put her back on a superstar map. He changed the game up a bit with his fast tempos, and unorthodox beats. He would double them up and even triple them with the melody of the song. That was something that just wasn't really done before too much. Aaliyah's "One in a Million" album is full of these goodies.
4 Page Letter
I love that song. It threw me for a loop the first time I heard it, since I'm such a percussion man, but that beat is definitely unmistakable.
The next step in his evolution as a producer came with layering many different kinds of sounds. He started to take samples of crazy stuff and just putting it on top of each other. For this one, I'll give an early example, and I'll give a very recent example.
Are you That Somebody?
That would be the early example... I love how he layered all those sounds into something wonderful. He takes a classic Timbaland style beat, and adds a layer of beatboxing, that's been tweaked and sped up. Then he adds for some extra flare, that baby laughing. That baby laughing was a pure stroke of genius! That sample comes from a Stevie Wonder song, "Isn't She Lovely". That was Stevie Wonder's daughter, laughing, while being given a bath at the end of that song. He puts that in perfectly and it adds that special touch to the whole song.
Bounce
This song was off of his latest cd, Shock Value. He has everything on this song. Heavy breathing, beatboxing, and crazy rhythm. My favorite part of the song is the 2nd breakdown around 3:28 seconds. Just goes to show you how many different pieces he takes to put together and have a great song come out.
Timbaland got so crazy, that he would put out songs that would fit perfectly with other songs that He made. In this song, he demonstrates his ability to put together two different songs, and bring them back and forth to play off of each other. It's amazing I tell ya. At the end of this song, Timbaland shows how he can take the same beat and mix it into two completely different songs. He takes Ugly, by Bubba Sparxxx and plays it off of Get your freak on, by Missy. His understanding and dissection of the beats is awesome in this one.
Ugly
Finally, that's a precursor to the Timbaland of now-a-days. It's crazy how he can take a song in completely different directions now. He can start a song off in one direction, and without so much as a flinch, really change the character of the song altogether. At the end of LoveStoned, by Justin Timberlake, Timbo shows off this ability. He turns it from an uptempo r&b type song, to a mellow type of club song. There is just a different level of feeling emphasized in the switch here, it really brings the song alive, much differently from the album version of the song. This is a long version of the song, the switchup begins at 4:11 or so in the song.
LoveStoned
I LOVE how he does that in this song! This is my favorite example of how he captures the essence of the song, and with a slight tweak, draws out the emotional side of Justin Timberlake. GENIUS!!! The layers of depth that the transition presents is amazing. To think that he came from such beginnings commerically. He's really really grown as a producer over the years, and I think that he's just begun to hit his stride.
As long as he's producing great music, I'll be a fan. I love the way that his music makes me move, feel, and react.
I'm out...
So.
I have GREAT respect for Timbaland.
When he first came out with Missy, he made beats that were kinda out there. They were awesome and all, but they were just kinda weird a bit. However, they worked. They worked because they fit in with Missy's style. So kinda out there for the time, they were doing something different. It was a fresh sound that really was heavy with the drums. Something like this, one of my favorite early Missy songs, off of her first cd, "Supa Dupa Fly".
Sock it 2 Me
That was my first taste of his sound. He came through with some heat. I love the bass and the percussion on that song.
Then, he hooked up with Aaliyah. This was a monumental time, because his beats help put her back on a superstar map. He changed the game up a bit with his fast tempos, and unorthodox beats. He would double them up and even triple them with the melody of the song. That was something that just wasn't really done before too much. Aaliyah's "One in a Million" album is full of these goodies.
4 Page Letter
I love that song. It threw me for a loop the first time I heard it, since I'm such a percussion man, but that beat is definitely unmistakable.
The next step in his evolution as a producer came with layering many different kinds of sounds. He started to take samples of crazy stuff and just putting it on top of each other. For this one, I'll give an early example, and I'll give a very recent example.
Are you That Somebody?
That would be the early example... I love how he layered all those sounds into something wonderful. He takes a classic Timbaland style beat, and adds a layer of beatboxing, that's been tweaked and sped up. Then he adds for some extra flare, that baby laughing. That baby laughing was a pure stroke of genius! That sample comes from a Stevie Wonder song, "Isn't She Lovely". That was Stevie Wonder's daughter, laughing, while being given a bath at the end of that song. He puts that in perfectly and it adds that special touch to the whole song.
Bounce
This song was off of his latest cd, Shock Value. He has everything on this song. Heavy breathing, beatboxing, and crazy rhythm. My favorite part of the song is the 2nd breakdown around 3:28 seconds. Just goes to show you how many different pieces he takes to put together and have a great song come out.
Timbaland got so crazy, that he would put out songs that would fit perfectly with other songs that He made. In this song, he demonstrates his ability to put together two different songs, and bring them back and forth to play off of each other. It's amazing I tell ya. At the end of this song, Timbaland shows how he can take the same beat and mix it into two completely different songs. He takes Ugly, by Bubba Sparxxx and plays it off of Get your freak on, by Missy. His understanding and dissection of the beats is awesome in this one.
Ugly
Finally, that's a precursor to the Timbaland of now-a-days. It's crazy how he can take a song in completely different directions now. He can start a song off in one direction, and without so much as a flinch, really change the character of the song altogether. At the end of LoveStoned, by Justin Timberlake, Timbo shows off this ability. He turns it from an uptempo r&b type song, to a mellow type of club song. There is just a different level of feeling emphasized in the switch here, it really brings the song alive, much differently from the album version of the song. This is a long version of the song, the switchup begins at 4:11 or so in the song.
LoveStoned
I LOVE how he does that in this song! This is my favorite example of how he captures the essence of the song, and with a slight tweak, draws out the emotional side of Justin Timberlake. GENIUS!!! The layers of depth that the transition presents is amazing. To think that he came from such beginnings commerically. He's really really grown as a producer over the years, and I think that he's just begun to hit his stride.
As long as he's producing great music, I'll be a fan. I love the way that his music makes me move, feel, and react.
I'm out...