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Slum Village
OffStereo builds narrated music history shows around real records. Slum Village runs through 6 of them, 1 that take them as the subject and 5 more where they surface inside someone else's story. They appear most often alongside J Dilla, A Tribe Called Quest and Common.
Shows about Slum Village
J Dilla's production DNA
J Dilla's un-quantized drums from Detroit create a breathing pocket that reshapes hip-hop, a sound Slum Village champions and A Tribe Called Quest expands.
Featuring Fall in Love · Players · Conant Gardens
Shows where Slum Village appears
Dilla's Unquantized Legacy
From sampling Kool & The Gang to his unquantized beats with Slum Village, J Dilla's radical sound on Welcome 2 Detroit shapes hip-hop's future, from Kanye West to Larry June.
1 of 8 tracks — Fall In Love
Dilla Time: Rhythm Redefined
J Dilla's "quantize off" technique on the MPC3000 gave hip-hop a humanized, "drunk" feel, a rhythmic revolution on par with Armstrong that shaped A Tribe Called Quest to Flying Lotus.
1 of 8 tracks — Players
Soul-Loop Roots: Dilla to Foreign Ex
From J Dilla's Donuts to Slum Village, Common, Little Brother, and Kanye West, a generation of hip-hop built its soulful, sample-driven sound on an off-kilter swing.
1 of 10 tracks — Fall In Love
808: The Beat That Built Worlds
Deemed 'unrealistic' in 1980, the Roland TR-808's synthetic pulse became Detroit's engine, shaping Juan Atkins' techno, Inner City's dance, and J Dilla's hip-hop.
1 of 8 tracks — Players
Dilla: The Art of Disguise
J Dilla's production genius lies in his art of disguise, meticulously transforming samples from Les McCann to Pink Floyd into new sonic narratives on 'Donuts'.
1 of 7 tracks — Fall In Love