know:juander – (re)Painting A Still

Here’s a remix I did to Painting A Still off of know:juander’s latest release, A Kid Love, beta. Make sure you cop that if you haven’t peeped it already. I was just working on this beat and for some reason juander’s lyrics came to mind. And it’s dope. So stream and download the joint below.

Keno - Watch

Here’s a new track I produced featuring KENO from TheOtherSide (group with him and producer WallSauce).  This beat might sound familiar if you heard my last instrumental album More Than Music. Just check it out and let me know what you guys think! Expect more heat from us in the future. Peep the audio below.

KENO – Watch (Produced By Nefarious!)

KENO – Watch (produced by Nefarious!)

Nefarious! - More Than Music

This is the last instrumental album I released called More Than Music. Check it out and leave a comment or hit me on twitter (@NefTheDamaja) and let me know what you think. Thanks to everyone who posted this up or interviewed me and fellow CSC member Mick Digi for doing the artwork. Stream it below via bandcamp player and hit the image on the left to download it.

Here is the first leak off of SLik d’s next album Summer Vibes. Summer Vibes will be avaliable for free download on Friday, August 14th which is his birthday. The track is called Summer Heat and it also happens to be produced by me. It’s dope. SLik d does this thing on the rhymes, Jarell Perry is on the hook. What more can you ask for? Peep the track below and click the above image to download it!

SLik d “Summer Heat” feat. Jarell Perry (Prod. Nefarious!)

Summer Heat (Feat.Jarell Perry)

click ‘more’ for contact info and to peep another leak produced by my homie Scrabble

SLik d “On My Mind” (Prod.Scrabble)

On My Mind (Prod.Scrabble)

SLik d on Myspace

SLik d on Twitter

Jarell Perry on Myspace

Jarell Perry on Twitter

Here’s a new track I produced featuring Atlanta emcee J.Nolan. It’s the first track leak for my next album called The Soul Dojo. That album will basically be me on the beats with an ill roster of emcees on rhymes. No release date yet so don’t sleep! You can check J.Nolan’s music out on his MySpace page and follow him on Twitter via @J_Nolan.

J.Nolan – For Your Love (Prod. Nefarious!)

J.Nolan – For Your Love (Prod. Nefarious!)

So the above image is an example of what I do while I’m not making beats. I’ve just been having trouble finding motivation. After all of the free albums, putting blood, sweat, and tears in to them and getting next to nothing in return, you start to feel discouraged. Like “Is this really worth it?”. I do make music for myself though. It’s just a way for me to express how I feel without having to come out and say it. The Crush Groovin’ for example. People close to me know what that was all about, but to others it might just be another beat tape. And that’s cool too. Where I’m trying to go with this is that it isn’t just a beat to me. That’s why I get pissed off when people jack my work. The average myspace rapper doesn’t get this, so they think they can just rap on whatever and think it’s going to be all good. Some people say now that I’m selling beats, I have sold out. But my soul is out for free download via MediaFire if you’re interested.

Here is a track that was supposed to be on The Crush Groovin’ but I decided not to put it on there. It was going to be the outro. I decided to put it up now because it seems like I went full circle with how I’m feeling. I feel exactly how I did when I made The Crush Groovin’ a year ago. It’s crazy how that works. Just check it out. For those who havent heard the whole album yet you can stream it via BandCamp here.

The Crush Groovin’ (Alt. Outro)

The Crush Groovin Outtake

Here’s a remix of one of my favorite De La Soul tracks. Originally produced by DJ Honda. Just check it out.

De La Soul – Trouble In The Water (Nefarious! Remix)

De La Soul – Trouble In The Water ( Nefarious! Remix)

This is the first edition of my music help series. I will be talking about my workflow and giving some tips on how to make your music sound better. In this post I will show you guys different ways to chop up your samples in Propellerhead’s Recycle and load them into Reason…

The first thing you need to do is either have a loop ready to open up in Recycle or load your song in by clicking File > Open or pressing Ctrl + O on your keyboard. Find and highlight your song and click “Open”.

Once your sample is open in Recycle it should look like this:

You can now begin setting up your chop points. Once loaded into reason each section you chop will be assigned to a pad/key on your midi controller. Some choose to use the Sensitivity bar (the slider thingy with “Sens:” next to it), but I like to take extra time to do it myself using the pencil tool. If you set your own points it will be much more precise and you will have more control over your sample.  Click the pencil and begin clicking on the wave file where you think would make a good slice.

The image above shows an example of what the Sensitivity bar would do. Recycle doesn’t have a brain and can’t tell what sounds good or not. It will just set a point wherever there is a peak in the wave file. This can be useful in looping, though.

You can see that I used the pencil to set my chops in this one. The locks above the lines mean that the line wont dissapear when you adjust the sensitivity. The next step is to load the .rx2 file into Reason’s Dr. Rex Loop Player or NN-XT. I will use the Dr. Rex this time because it is much simpler for sampling.

Now, the question I probably get asked the most is “how to use it like an MPC”. In my videos people see me pressing pads on my Akai MPD32 and wonder how the sample keeps playing after I let the pad go. They also ask how to get the next pad to “interupt” the first one if I press another pad while a sound is playing. The answer is in the polyphony and the release. Polyphony basically is how many sounds or chops can play at one time. The release is how long the sound will play for after you let go of the pad. You must set your Polyphony to 1 and Release to 127 if you want MPC style sample chopping. I will go more in depth with the Dr. Rex loop player and show you how to do this with the NN-XT in the next post.

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