No gimmicks beats full#
We might experiment doing some songs as a two-piece and the rest as a full band.
That sounded gimmicky to us, and believe me, if we thought we could pull it off as just a two-piece band, it would be so much easier and so much cheaper to do it that way, but at least for this run off this record, we’re going to do it like this. We can’t do something just because people expect us to do it, or because that’s what we’re known for. Not to bring up another obvious two-piece band, but if you went to see The White Stripes, and there were a lot of other people on stage, you’d be like, “Aw man, I just came here to see Jack and Meg.” I’m hoping people are a bit more open-minded to it. I’m guessing that a lot of people who like our band like us because of the two-piece thing. We’re stoked, but I don’t know how people are going to feel about it. We felt that the shows were really good, and we get along really well with these guys. It worked so well musically, so we went down to Austin that was our first outing as a full five-piece band and had a really good time. We didn’t even give it a chance to see if we liked each other. We just got into a room and instantly started playing a bunch of songs. Through our little network and other friends, we found a group of dudes. It’s sort of like going out and looking for friends, because not only do they have to work musically, but you have to like them and you have to spend a lot time with them, and they have to be able to work for peanuts because we can’t pay people a ton of money. So, I think we knew we were going to have to try to find some people, and that’s the shittiest thing you could do. How does it feel opening up MC Rut to new musicians?Īt some point during the recording of the record, it became obvious that there was no way we were going to be able to do these songs as a two-piece, unless we used computers and that never felt natural. Zack and I were talking about how you put a band together for the road. Stockham discussed MC Rut’s new members and the process behind creating Pick Up Your Head in the following interview. It feels like the drums are a lot bigger than they were before. As a drummer, it’s really fun to look over and feed off his energy and mine. “It feels like two drummers on stage,” he said. The addition makes MC Rut’s already huge, rhythmic live sound even larger. “We might switch off at some point down the line…we might have him play the drums and I’ll just sit backstage and masturbate or something like that.” It’s almost a shame to limit him to just the percussion stuff, because he would be such a great drummer in his own right,” Stockham said. In a recent interview, Stockham told us that the new lineup will feature a bass player, second guitarist and a percussionist, whom he seemed very excited about.
Now the band is back with their sophomore release, Pick Up Your Head, which not only expands the band’s boundaries musically, but also will see their live roster grow.īelieving Pick Up Your Head’s sound to be too big to produce live as a duo, MC Rut opened the door to three more musicians who will tour as part of the band this summer. Sacramento natives Zack Lopez and Sean Stockham reached new heights when their band Middle Class Rut struck rock radio gold with the single “New Low” in 2010. I'm improving for sure, but still have a ways to go.Middle Class Rut pushes their boundaries on their latest release
Besides teaching, it is my favorite thing to do.Īlso thanks to DJ Cutman for giving me some advice on mixing and mastering as that has always been something I struggle with. That means I've been doing this for 5 years now. Putting this out on my 25th birthday too. Hope the probable 10 people that read this like it. No gimmicks, no bullshit, just a bunch of floating ideas from my head put onto gritty drum beats. My drums are in tune with the samples and I went back to my boom bap influences with them.
No gimmicks beats how to#
I had to figure out how to get them all to work together and make sense musically. I have layers of samples with nothing to do with each other. So with this project I went back to challenging myself.
It was time to get back to training and learn how to do new things with my beats. I grew up listening to complex beats and perfectly crafted beats from guys like Premier and dilla and here I was throwing together gimmick beats for a few extra plays. 21 year old me would have fucking hated those beats. Quickly thrown together popular video game samples with Logic Pro's stock trap drum kit on top of it. But the more I listened to those beats and went and looked what else was on that Trap Youtube channel I quickly realized how much of a fucking gimmick my beats have been lately. I was pretty stoked at first because that brings traffic to my bandcamp and soundcloud. My Beats were getting tens and thousands of views. I found that my last beat tape was featured on a well known trap Channel. This beat tape is from me Youtube searching myself "BKNAPP".