J Dilla's precisely imperfect beats changed rhythm in the digital age. Now, though he never produced a Top 10 record, his bio debuted in the top 10 of most major bestseller lists,
The late James Yancey, a.k.a. J Dilla, photographed in 2000 at the Key Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
In the introduction, Charnas makes a grand claim about the artist’s influence, writing that J Dilla “is the only producer-composer to emerge from hip-hop and, indeed, all electronic music to fundamentally change the way so-called traditional musicians play. And the core of Dilla’s contribution is a radical shift in how musicians perceive time.”What follows are seven takeaways from the book, out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In the late 1990s, the Los Angeles-based musician inventor Roger Linn teamed with Japanese electronics maker Akai to create Dilla’s weapon of choice, the MPC3000. With a crucial feature called “shift timing,” the machine was about the size of a family Bible and allowed the producer to program in human-style inconsistencies measure by measure.
The breakout single on “Like Water for Chocolate” — and the Dilla production known to the widest segment of the population — was “The Light,” a Grammy-nominated love letter from Common to his girl.Writes Charnas of Dilla’s approach on the song: “James took a piece of choppy piano from a ballad performed by the blue-eyed soul crooner Bobby Caldwell and set it underneath drums sliced out of an Ohio Players single, ‘Funky Worm.
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