I would like to do something with the rapper Navy Blue a lot. I would want to tweak the vocals a lot, like affecting or dropping out the vocals a bunch. I would love to! I feel like the results would be pretty weird. Have you ever thought about making a hip-hop record and collaborating with a lyricist? So He directly inspired me to get the SP-303, and that was what I made music off of for the next five years. If he made that whole album just on that, I wanted to see what I could do with it. The SP-303, which I bought, I got because the producer Madlib said he made all of the album The Unseen by Quasimoto on it. There’s a really clear-cut line in that way. I dig it.Ī lot of the early hip-hop they were using James Brown samples. So these days, we talk about beats, and MCing is all about rhythm and rhyming.
It’s part of this trajectory of popular music that started with James Brown, where pop music became less about melody and more about rhythm. I’ve always noticed a hip-hop element to the sample-based songwriting of your career. Even the Dust Brothers, I loved how they sampled stuff. Madlib, I was a really big fan of J Dilla too. But on Person Pitch, which came out in 2007, mostly hip-hop stuff.
Minimalism is one of them - we both like simple things and classic chord progressions.Īs two musicians with a shared love of samples, what bands and influences did you want to mine on this project? But there are important similarities that help us work easily together. We have wildly different perspectives on how songs work or how arrangements and productions work. How do you see the similarities and differences in your musical styles? On this one, I wanted to make it equal in terms of our input. The first thing we did was my album Tomboy, which he mixed. So it seemed inevitable we would start making music together. He and I had grown closer over time, both professionally and personally. How did your prior relationship impact the collaborative process? By the end of the day, I would have a blueprint of a song.Īfter I did four or five songs, I thought it would be cool if he sang lead on a few tracks. Whichever one sparked an idea, I would start working on it. He sent me 30 or 40 of these things, and I would just run through them. Pete had an idea for a while about using these sample loops from intros from songs to build songs out of. It was the first lockdown wave in Portugal, and I found that working on music was the only way I could get my mind off the chaos and spiraling outside. I can’t say that we set out for any big plan. What did you hope to accomplish on Reset together? I know you and Peter Kember have been music pals since the Myspace days. Lennox gave background on his easy, collaborative relationship with Kember, whether he will ever make a hip-hop album, and the surrealism of having a production credit on Beyoncé ’s " Lemonade. chatted with Lennox while he enjoyed an off day in Portland on tour. The blending of moods mirrors the anxiety and hopefulness we all had while locked in our homes during the global outbreak of Covid-19. From their new homes in Portugal, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom produced an album of investigative, self-aware lyrics with buoyant, danceable beats. Lyrically, the two musicians used the pandemic to stay busy and build upon their shared musical interests. " The sleepy romanticism of these oldies created perfect fodder for the duo to sample for their own musical dreamscapes.
The Troggs' " Give It to Me " features prominently on "Go On," while Randy & the Rainbows' " Denise " is the bedrock of "Edge of the Edge," and " Three Steps to Heaven " by Eddie Cochran is the basis of " Gettin’ to the Point. On Reset, Lennox and Kember sample '60s and '70s pop songs, and doo-wop harmonies, to amplify lyrics about love, longing, and loneliness. Peter Kember), a founding member of pioneering shoegaze band Spacemen 3 who shares Lennox's love of looping and samples. 12, Panda Bear released a new album in collaboration with longtime colleague Sonic Boom (a.k.a. Their albums, notably 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, inspired the sound of indie rock for the next decade.Īnimal Collective's Noah Lennox, also known as Panda Bear, has sustained a successful solo career pushing the AC's sampling, loops, and vocal harmonies into new places. At the forefront of this artistic reformation was Animal Collective, a four-piece band whose jarring, melancholic sound collages were drenched in reverb.Īnimal Collective took cues from psychedelia, freak folk, Beat poetry, and performance art, creating a new sound that embraced lo-fi production and sampling while resisting genre categorization. American art hit a reset in the mid-2000s, as musicians began to reinstitute experimentation and DIY ethos back into music.
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