Aarnav's Blog

These past few weeks Intro to Music Assignment has been an interesting learning experience for me as a producer. I think one of the most important things we must do as musicians is discussing art made my predecessors and I have enjoying doing so in the past. However, this class has taught me that I…

clipping. – Body & Blood                        Courtesy of Sub Pop Body and Blood by clipping. is the second song off their 2014 debut studio album, CLPPNG. Body and Blood is a track with a gritty lyrical aesthetic and an instrumental to match it with punchy distorted kick drum and a sharp bass synth. The track is about a woman…

Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop was released in 1995. I was assigned the first chapter – Memory to study. Today in class we watched a documentary on the ambient music artist Brian Eno and I was immediately inspired. I had never really looked into ambient music and had been…

Contextual Analysis: JPEGMAFIA – I Cannot Fucking Wait till Morrissey Dies In this blog post I will contextually analyze the song, I Cannot Fucking Wait till Morrissey Dies off JPEGMAFIA’s 2018 breakout album, Veteran. JPEGMAFIA is an experimental hip-hop artist, with a strong far-left agenda. Being an extremely provocative artist, [1]Peggy often calls out popular public figures (Morrissey, Ben Carson) for…

The collective Nyege Nyege was founded by Arlen Dilsizian and Derek Debru in 2013 in Kampala, Uganda. The collective was started to make African electronic music available to a more widespread audience, limited physical copies of releases were printed however their music is available on band camp. Hakuna Kulala was added to their catalogue in 2019 as…

Introduction As I see it, workflow in music production is the process of how producers uniquely interact with their tools (digital or analogue) to produce a track. When I initially started making music, I learned and understood my favorite producers’ workflow. From Madlib to 9th Wonder I pulled little things in their workflow that would work…

In this blog post I’m going to discuss the genre defining impact of the Roland SP line on hip-hop.  The BOSS Dr. Sample SP-202 was released in 1998 for triggering sound effects and looping samples, it was the first of the SP lineage and it was the predecessor to the sampler that would change lo-fi…

Reflect on why you think this particular instrumentation has been selected. Lupe Fiasco – Stack That Cheese (Ft. Nikki Jean) Produced by Lupe Fiasco, Floss & Fame “Stack That Cheese” by Lupe Fiasco is the 19th track off his seventh studio album, “Drogas Wave”. The song is a spiritual successor to his 2007 hit “Hip Hop…

Earl Sweatshirt – Sunday (feat. Frank Ocean) Produced by: Earl Sweatshirt (under the alias, “RandomBlackGuy”)  & Frank Ocean Introduction:  “Sunday” is the 4th song on Earl Sweatshirt’s long-awaited major label debut “Doris”. I picked this song because it has a tone that speaks to me in a way no music has before. It balances the polar opposites…

As I see it, music production is the art of preserving a musical idea in the form of a record, and a music producer’s job can be anything in the creative process of publishing a record. A producer can have many roles, from songwriter or instrumentalist to a mix or recording engineer, but what I…