Beat Tape planning... How do YOU do yours?

Some very wise individuals on this site.Sometimes just lurking and extracting jewels from others is better than posting.

I always made beat CDs without any given theme,maybe that will change.

I've been mostly sampling funk. It's the type of music I'm most drawn to sample....... It must have to do with the fact I'm white and it's a KNOWN FACT that white people loose their shit when they hear an electric guitar.

It would be fun to do a whole funk inspired beat tape too.

Moved, for the benefit of others who don't go to OT searching for production techniques.

If you want a collection of beats to have a "theme" I would recommend either collecting beats you have made that already have a similar "theme" to them, or go about creating new stuff with the "theme" in mind.

You can use the samples and everything you have already picked out, you just need to get your mind into the "theme" first, than any sample you pick will have to contribute to the theme in you head. If you find the samples you have don't fit the theme then you may need to do some major distortion or flipping, but if that gets too involved just look at where you feel the "theme" is going...then work with that.

If you wanted to make a "johnny Mnemonic" themed tape, you can pick specific sub themes from the movie. Like make a beat themed like the crazy cyber-dolphin or the feeling of the growing NAS (comparable to a lot of modern diseases).

I think it's less important that you embody your source inspiration and more important that you create something that reflects what YOU think/feel about the source (which can be anything).

Hierophant/Fool wrote:If you want a collection of beats to have a "theme" I would recommend either collecting beats you have made that already have a similar "theme" to them, or go about creating new stuff with the "theme" in mind.

You can use the samples and everything you have already picked out, you just need to get your mind into the "theme" first, than any sample you pick will have to contribute to the theme in you head. If you find the samples you have don't fit the theme then you may need to do some major distortion or flipping, but if that gets too involved just look at where you feel the "theme" is going...then work with that.

If you wanted to make a "johnny Mnemonic" themed tape, you can pick specific sub themes from the movie. Like make a beat themed like the crazy cyber-dolphin or the feeling of the growing NAS (comparable to a lot of modern diseases).

I think it's less important that you embody your source inspiration and more important that you create something that reflects what YOU think/feel about the source (which can be anything).

I can dig that, preciate the advice.

A similar thread posted recently, some good ideas there too.

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