renegadebliss wrote:young_keyz wrote:That was funny to see all them asians and one white guy and no brothers. Thats just something i would never think of when seeing a mpc in a room.
Hmm... Such a prejudice statement. Considering that Akai is a Japanese company.
The nice thing about MPC's is that it's a musical instrument, and music generally
tends to cross race barriers.
Do you really think that the MPC is ONLY used in Rap music and ONLY by
African American's?
Shame....
If you are into electronica this was the event to go to in Tokyo as the demostration was about using the MPC as a synth/sampler like aka Korg Electrobe ) or as a drum machine with a full backing band with keys, bass, and lead guitar players.
The usage of mpc by the general public is still relativity small compare to guitars, or two turntables and a mixer. It was generally the way brothers in the past used the drum samplers and the spread of hip hip/house/club/acid jazz/r&b and so on that took the mpcs out the pro studios into the bedrooms of djs. As I posted before many MPC designers still don`t understand why the djs/dance music producers used the machine the way they do until recently when the home market started to grow.
In the Japanese magazines I mentioned before mostly 80% of the mpc users are into hip hop and dance they interview and report about mainly the top U.S. producers from Jazzy Pha, Neptunes, Just Blaze, Krucial Keys (all who are African Americans so go figure) and the equip, techniques, and clients they work with. Those dudes drop a hell of a alot of tips figuring a lot of cats back home won`t check it.
A hell of alot of techno, trance, and others dance producers swing with the Roland MC909 and Korg Electribe series for instant automation of patches, and bpm matching of samples. filtering and so on. Not many people were using the MPC the way brothers were using it back in the day and still now.
It is true the MPC is used for making all forms of music including country, but most bands rock with a dj now and it is still rare for many people to even know what an MPC is. My main point is the mpc usage by many overseas musicians, djs, and producers, is greatly influenced by r&b, hip hip and african american producers they have read or were inform about that alot of mpc usage by bedroom djs are expanding into the home market.
To tell the truth alot of techno djs and producers are deeply into synths, rhythms machines, and software samplers without the need for an mpc. For all the Zeebras, Ozaras, Kick the cans, Dabos, Hasabes and so on they tend to graviate to the mpcs or Mv8000 (both made in Japan) that the African American producers are using.
I don`t think it was prejudice about the prior comment. I believe it was most likely ignorance. If you ask the average mpc users in the States to name the top Japanese, Irish, Kenyan, Indian, Singaporean, Panamian, Russian or whatever producer using an MPC they wouldn`t know and may be surprised at how far beatmaking terminalogy, techniques, and the feeling have spread in the world. It may not sound the same but the heart and the effort is their MPC for Life.
