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    The Studio as Instrument

    Oct 04, 2020 2 minutes
    MAKAYA McCRAVEN

    A Tribe Called Quest (with Ron Carter)

    “Verses from the Abstract”

    The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991)

    is one of the first albums I ever bought. My dad [drummer Stephen McCraven] being a jazz musician, I knew about Ron Carter; the crossover on “Verses from the Abstract” of his live instrumentation—his upright bass—with sampling and production is really dope. It was modern and electronic, or acoustic, especially at a time when there wasn’t an avenue for creating out-of-the-box content.

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