In this, our terrible music industry – sponsored by capitalism and economic liberalism – we are lucky or unlucky that there are thousands of very interesting devices that can be adapted to our current situation as live instrumentalists, studio musicians or music producers.
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Do you remember Steve Vai playing his triple guitar with his experimental music? I’m sure that the first time you heard it (and especially when you saw it) you were shocked.
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As you can imagine, in urban music there have been many cases of blatant plagiarism that have ended in lawsuits: some of the most famous have been the Ai si eu ti pego by Michel Teló, or the Dominican Daddy Yankee.
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I’m sure you know the series Two and a Half Men; we’ve all seen it at some point, although probably not with the same enthusiasm: some of us have enjoyed it, taking a certain distance (it’s a slightly macho and Freudian series in which the only two possibilities for a woman are to be a nerd or a castrating viper), others have deeply detested it for being “Americanised” or superficial.
Can you imagine taking a stroll around a mansion where you could listen to the best urban music bass drums of the last decades with a high fidelity sound system and be amazed by the way they blow up? Well, you’re in luck, because that’s just what we’re going to do today, as I explain the “why” of various distortion techniques on today’s kick drums, so grab your best headphones because I’ve got some interesting stuff for you: