Recording to analog before digital sounds way better than strictly digital...

In the classroom, first we tracked the beat from the mpc 2500 into the tascam 388 using 8 tracks.

Then we added bass (direct), guitar (sennheiser), and two other rappers through the sure SM7b and grace m101 preamp.

Classmate/Bass player J. Crain in studio A, tracking the tape session into protools.

In Studio A, after everything was completely tracked into a session we recorded overdubs and extra percussion parts.

mpc1000 and the c24.

 

rough mix of the project coming soon...

To celebrate finishing the layout for allcitybeats.com ill be sharing a couple samples for all the beatmakers from one of my all-time favorite singers. JOE BATAAN

expecting to see some flips from the FP heads...

Joe Bataan (also spelled Bataán) (born 1942[citation needed] in Spanish Harlem, New York City) is a Filipino-American Latin R&B musician from New York. He was born Bataan Nitollano and grew up in the 103rd and Lexington part of East Harlem where he briefly lead the Dragons, a local Puerto Rican street gang before being sent to the Coxsackie Correctional Facility to serve time for a stolen car charge.

Upon his release in 1965, he turned his attention to music and formed his first band, Joe Bataan and the Latin Swingers. Bataan was influenced by two musical styles: the Latin boogaloo and African American doo-wop. Though Bataan was neither the first nor only artist to combine doo-wop-style singing with Latin rhythms, his talent for it drew the attention of Fania Records. After signing with them in 1966, Bataan released "Gypsy Woman," in 1967. (The title track is a Latin dance cover of "Gypsy Woman" by The Impressions.) He would, in full, release eight original titles for Fania which included the gold-selling "Riot!". These Fania albums often mixed energetic Latin dance songs, sung in Spanish, with slower, English-language soul ballads sung by Bataan himself. As a vocalist, Bataan's fame in the Latin music scene at the time was only rivaled by Ralfi Pagan and Harvey Averne.

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