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Gone are the days when Harmony was three guys singing backup or JC Lodge, Marcia Griffiths, etc. doing background in the studio. Gone are the days when Bob Marley did backup for Dennis Brown. Harmony is now one singer singing on different tracks and worst of all they use T-Pain or some electronic compression on voice to try and round it up.
Gone are the days when you had horn section in most studios and they would play on a few bars. Gone are the days when studios have band. Many have even parked their mixing board and are using Protools or some other recording software. First horns are replaced by a few bars from Keyboard. These bars are mostly pre recorded or digital enhanced.
The fact is we hardly support instrumentals and musicians in pure form. When last we had a instrumental on any chart. The last instrumental that in reggae that rode the chart I think was “Unmetered Taxi” and “Tripelet” which came out the same time. Once there was a time when instrumental was played in hip hop, and you had instrumental like “Rock it” from Herbie Hancock. Gone are the days when dub or instrumentals were the B side of reggae tracks. The fact is nobody no longer by instrumentals and that is the death of the recording hornsmen, not With the stereotype about dancehall, look at songs like this. The clarity is there and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJi8INoyUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQN1bKnydc
I don’t like or defend murder music but when people act as if dancehall is only lowlife and no good artists.
Leroy might not be the best hornsman around but if you listen you will see a place for the horns in dancehall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKVxism06g
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']All the hater, unnu need fi encourage good music and stop been like many of our parents who rubbish everything young people do. Music has changed and the world has change but there is still some quality.
Gone are the days when you had horn section in most studios and they would play on a few bars. Gone are the days when studios have band. Many have even parked their mixing board and are using Protools or some other recording software. First horns are replaced by a few bars from Keyboard. These bars are mostly pre recorded or digital enhanced.
The fact is we hardly support instrumentals and musicians in pure form. When last we had a instrumental on any chart. The last instrumental that in reggae that rode the chart I think was “Unmetered Taxi” and “Tripelet” which came out the same time. Once there was a time when instrumental was played in hip hop, and you had instrumental like “Rock it” from Herbie Hancock. Gone are the days when dub or instrumentals were the B side of reggae tracks. The fact is nobody no longer by instrumentals and that is the death of the recording hornsmen, not With the stereotype about dancehall, look at songs like this. The clarity is there and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJi8INoyUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQN1bKnydc
I don’t like or defend murder music but when people act as if dancehall is only lowlife and no good artists.
Leroy might not be the best hornsman around but if you listen you will see a place for the horns in dancehall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKVxism06g
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']All the hater, unnu need fi encourage good music and stop been like many of our parents who rubbish everything young people do. Music has changed and the world has change but there is still some quality.
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