Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Producer Podcast

Everybody knows the name Dr. Dre; He is well-known producer as well as an artist. He was born Andre Young. He started off as a DJ; spinning for house parties, then later merge onto raping in a group called N.W.A. Dre’s biggest influence was George Clinton. Dre took the sound of George Clinton, which was more of a funk type of music, and built, from there with nice drum patterns. Using George Clinton’s sound that was often described as P-Funk. Dre found another way other than paying for publishing clearances.  Instead he used real musicians and singers re-recording song snippets to be used as samples he called it G-Funk.