Snoop Dogg In The Lab Recording With Katy Perry | “California Gurls”

Mac Miller In The Studio!

DMX x MACHINE GUN KELLY IN STUDIO In Arizona Saltime Studio EPIC!!!

Timbaland The Man & Legend Busta Rhymes In The Recoding Studio

Now I am just as big of a hip hop/rap fan as anybody but crazily enough I barely listen to it (unless it is some real old school/or rare ishh).  I do this purposely to not be influenced by current artists. I normally stay out of the genre completely if possible. My main go-to’s are classic rock and r and b, also hits from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.  Since music had less 4/4 rigidness and also live instrumentation more often then current music it helps you to think outside the box.

I will say you need to listen to a little bit of hip hop to see the kind of tones, drums, and styles that are getting love these days. This is not to copy but to understand what the majority of your type of audience is listening to. In the end pull out that old soul, jazz, or rock n roll and put up the Wiz Khalifa for a minute.  At least try it for a day, week, or month I guarantee you will go at your beat making and producing differently. Remember don’t just listen for stuff to sample. Pay attention to notation, the transitions, and the many different ways to arrange a song!  Hope this helps you make some new creative fire, Peaceeeee!,

AKtion

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Futuristic’s – FUCK YOU MEAN Instrumental Download

84 BPM/Tempo

This is the High Quality .WAV 44.1 16bit Version of the beat/instrumental to the song “F*ck You Mean” of Futuristic’s “Dream Big” Album.  The download includes the tempo.

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Fuck You Mean Instrumental – 84bpm Prod By AKT Aktion by aktaktion

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Just wanted to let everyone know that AKT Aktion and Futuristic are currently in the lab working on a full album expected to drop this spring.  No word on the Title for the album but we are told it will be purely digital and be free to the public with a donation button fans can use if they would like to give money towards the cause.

AKT  Aktion Producing Futuristic’s Entire New Release Early 2012!

“We doing an album they way it use to be done, one producer , one artist a room fool of ideas and gear, with a few pieces from some other talented artists sprinkled here and there to make bangin ass classic hip hop record that mostly all hip hop listeners can dig, ya dig”  AKT Aktion

AKT Aktion :       “We have been in the lab on and off for a while but, we now have a group of tracks picked out for a crazy sounding album we are putting together.  There are sounds on here no one has ever heard in their life man.  We are pushing major hip hop boundaries on this album, but at the same time a group of the tracks on the album the are in the realm of what you are hearing today.  We want to bring a different twist on the ishh that is going on now.   We are experimenting with major synth modulation on some parts of the album and playing with tones in new ways especially for hip hop.  With Future’s (Futuristic) air tight flow,  swag, and personality shining through on all the tracks and crazy sound combos it is gonna be one to remember.  Don’t worry not all tracks will be in outer space, but we promise they will all be new additions to ya Ipod list.  Hopefully we will be ready for an February Release, but we will not rush perfection, but yes February is looking good right now.  We hope to give Phoenix and the rest of the world a new album with some fresh sounds, a few familiar sounds,  and some sounds that they didn’t know existed.

This is just going to be a quick tip for a great way to get the most out of your sound kits when making beats and producing tracks.  Most sound kits come in a format where the sounds are put in folders by song or song packs I like to call them.  Meaning they put all of the elements to one beat in a folder. You will normally find some sort of drums, strings, synth, piano, or pad etc. etc. Well that can work OK but at the same time another producer could buy that kit and produce the exact same beat, and also if you want to ad those new sounds to current beats you are working on you have to hop from folder to folder to find the right bass , or the right synth.

THE SOLUTION

Once you download the kit make folders and name them by instrument IE: Bass Folder, Drums Folder, Synth Folder etc. Then take a couple hours and place the correlating sound from each “song pack” into the sound based folders. This makes way easier to find that perfect bass loop for a track your working on, or if you need a tight drum roll you can just go to the drumroll folder and pick one of the many.  As you download and buy more sound kits if you keep doing this, before you know it you will never get stuck on a beat again. This makes it 10 times easier and quicker to find the right sound.  Next post i will go over how i use this method in Reason/Record and also how to make templates for quick and easy beat making.

Thanks for Reading,

Aktion