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Dan Charnas
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March 17 - March 29, 2024
“Nag Champa,”
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Thelonius”
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Fantastic, Vol. 2
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Fan-Tas-Tic.
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“Really Love.”
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The Common track became a D’Angelo song called “Chicken Grease,” and D’Angelo gave up a song that became Common’s “Geto Heaven, Part Two,”
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Common’s song “Time Travelin’”
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Amplified,
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Slum Village’s “I Don’t Know”
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Then he realized that James was using the drum machine to shift the timing of his sounds—the snare backward, so it rushed a little bit; the hi-hats forward—duplicating his patterns, modifying each of them slightly and then stringing them together to form a whole. Jeff’s discovery led to a deeper realization: everyone in hip-hop had heretofore been trying to cut, splice, and jam samples to accommodate the machine’s time grid, because producers were focused on mining samples for their sounds. But Jay Dee did the opposite: he bent the machine grid to accommodate his sample sources, because he was
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D’Angelo, became the Slum Village song “Tell Me.”
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D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Common’s Like Water for Chocolate dropped in early 2000. Sophisticated twins from the womb of Electric Lady, praised by critics and fans, both reflected the rhythmic and aesthetic influence of Jay Dee,
Busta Rhymes’s “Still Shining”:
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“Reminisce.
“Didn’t Cha Know,”
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“Thelonius” by Common.
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“Floetic,
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“Complexion”
Kendrick Lamar’s “Complexion” is a great example of a transition between Straight Time and Dilla Time, and a way to get a visceral sense of how difficult it is for humans to hold the tensions between the two time-feels.
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At 2:10, as Kendrick begins singing “I like it, I love it,” begin tapping your finger or foot along with the beat. You are in Straight Time. At 2:30, as the beat fades out, keep tapping your finger at the same tempo. Let the rhythm of the vocals and the piano guide you. Then, as the new, conflicted beat fades in after 2:35, try to hold the tempo with your finger. By 2:43, you are in Dilla Time.
Don’t sell yourself to fall in love with the things you do
