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  • who said hip hop is dead, is a fucking victim of the mainstream

  • Damn this is shit . Old school floppy discs. Lol

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  • Somebody get this man a ZIP drive ;)

    I always thoroughly enjoy these videos. Thanks for being awesome.

  • what's the name of this amazin instrumental ?

  • @ShuffleBassT Damu the fudgemunk - Figment

  • now i know people aren't right. anyone dissing damu saying he's not a musician is obviously a fucking poser who just wants to spark negativaty and madness on the internet. i know this because how the hell did you end up on a damu video if you don't like hip hop and its ways? it doesn't work like that, i don't think. stop fronting, you love this dude. all of us here do, i guarantee it

  • Wow lot of floppies or zip disk!

  • @TheSinghFIRE j dilla is hella overrated

  • @tableturns77 oh my gooooooddddddddd, why are people such assholes all the time. if someone thinks j dilla is the greatest dude to ever touch a sampler, then let them think it. in all honesty, i sure do. and that's because dude brought an entire alternative thought process to it. he brought out a lot of the best product in artists he produced for. and none of this is taking into the fact that his shit, especially towards his death, was pure fucking math. kill the negativity and let people live

  • @caledooper yea dilla created his own style and i liked when he was jay dee in the 90s but late 2000s his shit got wack followed by flying lotus and knockoffs, shit is mad boring to listen to.

  • @tableturns77 i bet u never listened really to dilla. he's not overrated, he just got as much fame as good he was wich is fair. damn, this guy did so dope collabs with madlib! check out jaylib! you dumb fuck are just too stupid to get into dilla beats. RIP Dilla

  • @tableturns77 fall down some stairs

  • what are all those floppys. Does he store his beats or his drums on there?

  • You got talent my nig

  • damu the fudgemunk is the last real hiphop producer, makes hiphop beats like theyr suppose to sound golden era. fuck the j dillas and 9th wonders they cant come correct like damu

  • @tableturns77 'fuck the j dillas' ARE YOU RETARDED?!

  • @tableturns77 your low as dog shit after that comment. punk. Damu can never come near Jay Dee. Back in the early 90's there were hundreds of producers like this cat. Jay Dee was lightyears ahead of this dude. Musically, nobody could touch him. you cunt.

  • ok so i'm going to get an mpc soon. 2000, or 2kxl? i really like the way damu does the track mutes by hitting the pads and i know there's a button for it on the 2kxl, but can you do it the exact same say on the 2kxl or is that only for the 2000?

  • @drumsandivory the 2000XL has the mute feature, the 2000 might, i haven't really heard if it has or hasn't

  • Damu is a beast Official...Keeping this real hip hop alive.Cant wait for the new Shit..Boom Bap dont get no iller!!!omg

  • DISKO DAVE IS ROX

  • Still rockin the floppy disk! Good for him!

  • ...serious!

  • Killin the fatback sample! Anyone else hear the intro to mr oizo flat beat in there? It's not looping but you hear it once and a while with a high hat.

  • his drums are insane!

  • Big Up Fudge

  • id kill for that copy of Rappers Best Friends.

  • THAT NIGGA GOT DISKS FOR DAYS

  • hey an where can i buy that mpc, im starting of new let me know things i need man, i really need some info, would gladly appreciate it, thanks

  • Ah sa fait tout bizarre de voir ces bonnes vieilles diskettes

  • He's Got Artists Hands,

  • the floppies, not the floppies.

  • you need a zip drive

  • yea i learned about track muting not too long ago, its good for live sets.

  • @5T63R

    Damu is using track mute.

  • i still dont understand how he uses his mpc

  • @SVLocksmith and all AKAI geeks, does anybody know this:

    it looks as if he triggers the loops with the pads. and has some special mute groups - like the strings - for easier arragement.

    Is this special to the 2000?

    

    I'm using a 2k-XL and you have to keep pressing the pad down to play looping samples.

  • @SVLocksmith Like a boss. That's how.

  • @SVLocksmith what do u mean?

  • @SuperHikerman i was referring to how he triggers the loops but i figured out that he uses track muting on the mpc

  • @SVLocksmith oh ok i thort there wasnt any other way other than track mute

  • thumb up for the illest producer!

  • you my favorite producer! Your the one that made me get an mpc.

    Check out my beat, thanks!

    DAMU!!!!

  • @SakeofART same for me :P

  • amazing beat and a wonderful smile

  • what are you doing when you're messing with the play stop and record buttons during the middle of the song?

  • Damu is ill!!! I cant wait to buy this album!

    Lovin all your vids Damu, keep it up man. Peace from Melbourne Australia. =)

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  • As much as I admire your enthusiasm I really couldn't bring myself to be messing about with a sampler that needs floppy disks. To me that it hell on earth, I really do not posess the patience required to sit there waiting for loading and editing on a small screen and then making multiple backups. I could never return to that. I'll live with 16bit any day of the week.

  • THEM DRUMS DAMN. SO DOPE.

    DRH2.COM

  • This beat is superb but I just went on iTunes to buy it and it's only 1:50 and it costs a dollar. Don't get me wrong, I love his music but atleast gimme 3-4 minutes.

  • Damu is the motherfucking man!!

  • Damn, that can't be his real name please.

  • man... after watching this there's no doubt that the mpc was the best thing Damu could ever lay his hands on! this is perfect!

  • MPC is a real instrument..And future artists will look at it as something as CLASSIC as a Hammond organ or an Electric guitar ;)

  • @Pittermilk i agree i have a lot of repect for sample based producers, and love listening to thier art, i've played keys, guitar, and bass for many years, and i still try to make sampled beats, but just don't have the patience to spend hours searchin /choppin up records when i can just play it on a keyboard, guitar in minutes, thats why i got respect for ppl who do, because the outcome can be special if you got patience.

  • IMAO this "Figment" sounds realy better than version from "How It Should Sound"

  • figment

  • wuddup Jnota?!

    thank you for bringing us damu the SAVIORMUNK

    GO GET HOW IT SHOULD SOUND LEARN ABOUT DOPE GROOVES PEOPLE!

  • Of Course Damu Can Do IT. - Y- Society.

  • Love watching this guy work... he's chilled!

  • I liked it !

  • The beat is called Figment, and it's found on How It Should Sound Vol 1 & 2... GO BUY IT!!! It's $10 for like 27 dope instrumentals...

  • The Figment :D

  • this beat is on Damu's upcoming LP "How It Should Sound"

  • @producerworld 100,000 views, better be! been dying to have a full version of this. April is too vague...whats d date!

  • YES!!!!! this is beat is so dope

  • YES!

  • is this track on any damu or y-society albums,eps or mixtapes?! can't find it, please helP :P

  • is there a long version of this track ? it´s awesome

  • ive just started digging a little while ago and im getting an MPC2000 soon

    damus an inspiration i wish i could be his apprentice or some shit cuz he uses the 2000 and he gets DOWNNNN with that thing

  • haha ive wished for the same thing...

  • thats that shit.

    damu is the man.

  • damn.

    Just got one.

    BEST THING EVAR!

    but im having zip problems so i cant upload my own drums

    D':

    damu is a BEATS

    lol ment BEAST

    hmmm BEATS BEAST lol. same letters XD

  • yal'l, traditional acoustic instrumentalists are never going to accept the mpc as a musical instrument like a guitar or something, but who cares? hip hop was founded on the deejay extending breakbeats on two turntables and cutting/inserting instrament stabs in it too,

    an mpc allows you to do what the deejays were doing but is like adding 50 more deejays in it at the same time each with more records to sample/ put in the mix.

    I'm a deejay, who produces beats with an mpc just as if deejayin

  • does anyone know how the beat is called? thanks

  • What "real" instrument allows you to use any type of sound or sample and arrange it as your creativity sees fit? The creativity and craft that Damu is displaying to mix and match samples is an art. It's a shame that such art isn't appreciated by those who think you need to play a traditional instrument to be considered not only talented, but a composer.

  • well said

  • @Lukewestnedge

    it won't take long. sooner or later it will gain the respect it deserves.

  • well coming from someone who plays a "real" instrument (guitar) and composes beats on an MPC, a sampler is an instrument. its an instrument designed to manipulate and playback found sounds. And acoustic instrument it is not but and instrument for creative artistic expression it is.. just like any other device designed to create sound. period.

  • @Lukewestnedge man who cares what people think, an mpc is like having 16 mp3 players X 4 banks all in one box.... with rubber buttons... that sounds like an instrument to me. Man you can sample your own instument playing with an mpc so... not to mention damu helped shape the biggest music industry genre to exist..

  • @Lukewestnedge agreed, any true musician should be astounded by an instrument like this. I play piano, violin, guitar and accordion and right now I can tell you that all I want is one of these.

  • @Lukewestnedge To be honest, it's even worse than that. It's possible to sample using for example just a traditional guitar. Use parts of guitar licks you like and combine them with fitting other already made guitar licks and voila, you're 'sampling' using a traditional instrument.

    Heck, it's the most popular way popular songs are being adapted to create something new, but similar as is often the case with pop music.You're obviously right in how pathetic it is but it can be done with trad.instr

  • @Lukewestnedge Agreed lol

  • @Lukewestnedge i Kno you fuks with real hiphop so just youtube this TFTS Promo Beat "ODE"

  • if your into music its not about whether you sample or not its about whether it sounds good that dream beat is working. i make beats from scratch and i sample my own stuff and other peoples stuff. if its hot its hot if its not its wack period. kanye and many others do exactly that they recreate phrases of soul records down to the finest detail and then sample it because they want the sampled sound with out the mechanical fees charged by the owner of the record.

  • lol ....take a chopped up sample and try to play it with an acoustic instrument and see how it sounds. no skill will help you achieve that sound that the sample makes same again....try to come up with the sample on the record with out the acoustic instruments or electronic instruments used in the sample wont happen. isnt it obvious that samples come from "real instruments " and that distinctive hip hop sound we all love comes from manipulating samples recorded from records or your own music

  • its all about manipulating sounds. i understand that

    however when someone creates a beat from an acoustic instrument, they arent trying to recreate an old soul record, so i dont see how that compares

  • not feelin the neck-tie. but dope beat ass beat

  • Woah shit he's fire

  • That kick punches hard. how it should be.

  • Hot Shit Bro...

  • did he ever put this beat out? on a beat tape or something?

  • yeah man he even puts some stuff out for free.

    he does it for the music.

    now thats hip hop

  • so whats the beat called?? or Track??

  • I wouldn't necessarily say that's hip hop but it is most definitely Real Music

  • Hooot...

  • This is amazing, just look how many zip drives he has!

  • that's floppy disk

  • Fire

  • boon doc aint got shit on this cat man. gota be the dopest producer on you tube.

  • leave that comment on one of boon doc's videos...his fans need to here shit like that...hes dope but this nigga is way iller

  • boonie aint the better sampler, but i dont see damu makin beats from scratch

  • how fuck you figre he ain't doin it from scratch? Cause he ain't puonding on some wackass keyboard coming up with wackass melodies? This man Damu is a real producer....records, turntable and a drum machine...

  • im not against sampling so i wont actually diss it.

    but ur not going to sit here and act like they are the same type of producer. boonie makes his beats from instruments, damu makes his from re arranged or "chopped samples". i havent seen damu play piano. he is the better sample-based producer arguably, but he doesnt compose.

    in other words get off his dick

  • lol, uhhh I just go mainly by what I hear homie and that other cat ain't fuckin with Damu...

    ain't about being on nobodies dick fag boy...one cat is nice as fuck and another is so so...

  • He doesnt compose? lol Compose means 'to create' which he does. His samples dont just automatically fit with each other, he has to chop, stretch and pitch the samples for them to work together. And for your further information, a sampler/ drum machine is actually an instrument. You need to get hold of a dictionary or something.

  • @sixthsense3

    excuse me, he doesnt compose with instruments. the sampler is a drum machine, not an instrument. he chops old records up and makes new songs from them, along with drums and baselines.

    thats not anything new

  • The mpc is an instrument of creation. If he chops one note and pitches it across the pads (which he does aswell as looping) and plays them back in his own sequence then its just as good as playing keys on a keyboard. Also, musicians which you are talking about who play "real" instruments subconsciously sample ideas from other artists. "no idea is original" you never heard that saying? So choppin records is just a physical form of borrowing an idea. Its all composition.

  • lol @ subconsciously sample

    a fantom keyboard for instance isnt a piano. it has 88 piano note samples in it so u can emulate an actual piano. taking an arethra franklin record and chopping it into 16 even chops and playing it in a different order and adding some drums is just that

    we all know what takes more skill

    however i agree the goal in music is to make new compositions. the chords i use is my beats have been use before.

  • Perfectly stated.

  • and what, plucking guitar strings to create a melody IS "something new?" whether a composer knows it or not, im sure someone at some point has played the same notes they're playing before, or used the same chord progression they are. a line from del, "music is there without you or me, we just manipulate for better or worse." so to me, sampling is no different than any other "form" of music. all artists inspire each other, they use each others ideas, painters and musicians alike...

  • no one will ever be completely, 100% original, if that's what you're going for. but i dont even think thats what being original means, to me its using whatever you have, taking your influences, and flipping it in your own unique way. what the fuck does it matter what you use to make music? people like yourself are missing the point of music entirely, and being extremely snobby by degrading other music simply because of the way it is made. music is music...

  • ...and the only thing that matters in music--THE ONLY THING--is how it sounds. fuck the rest, the bickering, the comparing, the critiquing; if it sounds good, its good music. i dont care what anyone used to make it. certain people in africa slap water to make music, are you going to criticize them for not making music on a recognized, western instrument?

  • @crayyawn

    ok to start off i didnt diss sampling.

    i stated that damu is the better sampler and that boonie was the better composer.

    so shut the fuck up with the corny ass speech

  • damu typically prefers to work with samples but he also plays bass, drums, vibes and keyboards.  some of those joints will be released throughout 2010. we'll post something soon with some snippets of upcoming stuff, including some with live instruments.

  • id like to see some of the material actually, i never doubted he COULD do it, i said i didnt SEE him doing it

  • @producerworld i play the vibes too!!! Though when I first was introduced, i had no clue of the applications!!!

  • what's with the bow tie? looks stupid. BTW I am a fan

  • wonka beats, damu is fresh don't hate

  • I don't know what's fresh in the stupid bow tie.

  • he's pullin off the willy wonka look, shit, chill on it son

  • you just gotta ignore cats like that, oak. besides the fact that he's focused on what another man wears, his beats are wack.

  • U GOT ANYMORE OF HIS STUFF???

  • lmao yup failed the gay test. if u see a room full of vinyl, an mpc and samples and shit and all u notice is his gear then ur kinda questionable lol

  • @kustomkure Damn man,that Bow tie is fly as fuck, requires a lot of style to be able to rock it like that.

  • @YesWeFresh I somehow and agree and disagree, my friend. I totally get the idea and I would let this guy wear anything he wants since he is a genius. However I personally won't ever wear something like that and I sincerely don't find the bow tie to be even close to being cool.

  • @kustomkure its called retro man

  • alchemist rapper's best friend in the back!

  • I want one of those but with USB ports or memory card readers, Damn those floppy disk

  • Try a Zip drive. Card reader is possible with soldering.

  • FUCKING DOPE!!

  • haha that crazy mofo is wearin a bow tie and bead necklace. keep doin ya thing, damu

  • WE NEED A FILE LINK FOR THIS BEAT dopegraffhead!!!

  • where can i get this beat in normal quality not from a the camera pls ????

    0.24 so huge

    AAAAAAAAAAAH !

  • huge beat

    nice omg

  • banging!!! peep that ruff draft in the background =]

  • word up.

  • Damn about 6000 floppies with beats... NICE!!!

  • with sounds...

  • Yo that beat was wild nice. Too bad it's in a store only.

  • masterpiece

  • Man so funky fresh....Any one talking shit about this video an ignorant fu#K and they should learn there Hip-Hop history or take up another life style!

  • And BTW, for dude talking about 9th being gay cause he uses FL....well, I guess I can say compare hit but dah well.. and he still uses FL and he uses the MPC2500.

  • saved beats, drums and stuff. newer mpc's use cf cards

  • samples

  • Daaaamn..ill joint

  • man this vid is flexin..respect

  • this is a classic video

  • luv

  • FAAAAAAAAtttt beat I like this,

  • fl hahah. man get serious. keep idolizing herbs and you going to stay one..

  • why yall arguing bout damu and boonie - bof them niggas dope-!!! dif styles dif equitment -both ill ...

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  • i wonder why there's always so much hate in those comments. it's just music. enjoy it or skip it, but don't say "fuck this guy, fuck that guy".

  • ps...fruity loops is fucking gay and so is 9th wonder and jay z..im talkin about some real hip hop..this is a damu vid right..hahaha yall cats all got talkin and aint got shit to say between ten of yall.

  • you don't know the half bro, the man makes the machine, machine don't make the man!

  • Um U are definitely trippin if you say 9th is gay cause then u sayin little brother is gay

    Check out my page I use fl tell me what u think

    LMAO cnt believe you said 9th aint hiphop

  • what dumb bastard said that???

  • the 1000 wasnt even invented till like 02. so i dont now how that is possible bro.primo used the s950 and the mpc 60.

  • May of been talking about the akai s1000. but who knows, some youtube guys are retards

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  • You clownin dude, Boon Doc is dope... although I Damu is obviously better with the MPC.

    9th wonder used Fruity loops, probably still does... I'm sure Primo used the 1000 back in the 90s and he made classics for Nas, Jay Z, Gangstarr etc.

    so stop hatin... it's not about the instrument, it's about how you use it

  • thats bullshit..fuck you and your outlook who are you? really? you make music? you make beats? kick rocks.

  • cause i know the realness and depth of the shit..you probably dont homie..the mpc1000 is a toy. thats why theres no thought process that goes into the 1000. the 2000 requiers a thought process. since you asked. the quality of his music to this is like 0-10. if you cant hear it, then you should go comment about some black panthers videos or something if you want to get all racial. aint no room for that kind of shit in real hip hop. you want argue about skills cool, no racial shit..that outa the ?

  • nah man your outlook is whack. the mpc is just a tool. ill skill manifests itself no matter what its happenin on. didnt dilla do donuts on shitty old computer speakers?

    Besides, a piano doesn't require more thought process than an mpc1000, but does that make ahmad jamal whack?

    One love

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  • damn why does it have to be fuck boonie

  • you gotta be fucking kidding me right? hahaha...im laughing with you bro...not at you....(i hope)

  • hahaha boonie...compared to damu...hahaha yall crazy. damu is dope.

  • they have dif approaches. why do we always have to comparte black artists in a negative light.

    but boonie does compose also, damu merely samples

  • damn and i was jsut shoppin here the other day !! wish i had known !

  • Mere mortals can only nod their heads in submission to the dopeness! Peace.