Rueben’s achievements

Rick Rueben has got six Grammy Awards for his musical performances
from 1998 to 2007. This great musician has got the award of Record of the
Year for the Dixie Chicks and Not Ready to Make Nice. The two albums
named Taking the Long Way and Dixie Chicks are very famous and he win
a Grammy Award for these two albums in 2007.

 

He got the Producer of
the Year of 2007 award for his non classical production.
Rueben is one of the pioneers of def jam in America. Russell Simons and
Rick Rueben is the joint founder of the hip hop musical culture. The two
great musician founded def jam records and that production house was
itself a revolution in the musical era of America.

 

 

Simons and Rueben got separated in the year 1988. Simons became the
only owner of def jam production in New York. After the separation
Rueben went to California. In Los Angeles Rueben was fighting for
establishing his new production house. At last Rueben formed Def
American Records in Los Angeles, California.

 

 

In 1993 the Def American
Records became American Recordings. Johnny Cash’s music recording
was the first recording done by American Recordings. He had worked
with famous heavy rock music in California like Danzig, Wolfsbane, masters
of reality etc.
Stripped down sound is the main feature of the well known producer Rick
Rueben.

 

 

Rueben has criticized for his video albums. Many people found it very
offensive. For those criticisms Rueben had to face various questions from
various sources. But his musical life did not have any pause.

Rick Rueben

Two persons had introduced the hip-hop music culture in America. One is
Russell Simons and the other is Rick Rueben. They are the founder of def
jam, one of the most popular musical cultures of America.
Frederick Jay Rick Rueben was born in New York on 10th march, 1963. He is
a Jewish by born.

 

Presently Rick Rueben is the co-head of the famous
production house Columbia Records. Rap and heavy metal are the two
favorite genres of this musician.

 

This great musician was the co founder of
Def Jam Records with Russell Simons.
While Rick was a student of Long Beach High School he had learnt some
music lessons from Steve Freeman who was the AV Director of the school.
He then formed a punk band that was known as The Pricks.

 

It was not very
popular among the other bands of that time.
Rick Rueben starts to learn about hip-hop music when he met DJ Jazzy
Jay. In the year 1983 Rueben and Jay released their rap production “It’s
Yours”. Famous producer Arthur Baker helped them a lot to distribute their
records all over the world.

 

In the year 2007 Rueben got the Grammy Award for his best works. He has
got the award for the producer of the year. Previously he got the Grammy
Award for the best country album (for Unchained and Johnny Cash) in
1998.

 

In 2007 he got 5 Grammy awards for his works. Best Rock Album
award for Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stadium Arcadium. He has got the
producer of the year award for his non classical music productions and
got other three Grammy Awards.

Russell Simons and Phat Farm

Russell Simons is has introduced the hip-hop style in America. He is best
known for his record Def Jam. This active philanthropist runs many
charitable organizations in America.

 

The Def Jam legend was born in
Queens, New York in 1957. He has grown up in a black middle class
society. His youth starts with his first business of dealing cocaine and
marijuana. But in late 1970’s he got into the world of rap music. He then
formed his own production house called Rush Productions.

 

This production
house helped the rap artists to come to the world’s stage. Simons had
that intention to promote the rap artist in America.
Starting that business with an honest intention Simons founded a clothing
company in 1992. The company was Phat Fashion LLC. Phat Farm wass
the flagship brand of this company. In that clothing company Simons had
another thought that he wished to popularize.

 

He tried to make a
combination of two different genres, the popular dressing culture of
America and the street culture of the society. He wanted to mix both of
the tastes and form a new one. Simons gave a great attention to the
clothing company. He introduced Baby Phat after a few months.

 

 

Baby
Phat is designed by Kimora Lee, a model and Simons’s wife. But that
experiment was a big failure for Simons and his wife. In the first six years
Americans did not accept the new fashion as Simon planned. At last in
the year 2004 Simons sold the company to Kellwood Group for $140 million
as the official reports say.

Russell Simons

Russell Simons, the founder of Russell Simons Music Group was born in New
York’s Queens on 4th October, 1957. He is the pioneer of Def jam in
America.
He is the pioneer of the Def Jam records in America and he introduced
the hip-hop culture to the Americans. The agony of the middle class
blacks inspired him to sing loud to blow up the civil society because he is
from that class.

 

His music was so relevant for that time when the entire
black middle class society was waiting for a blast. It was their necessity
and Simons is that person who came first and set fire to the explosives.
Simons was married to famous model Kimora Lee in 1998 when Simon was
at the age of 41 and she was at 23.

 

But the marriage was broken in March
2006 when Simons filed a divorce case officially. In the eight long year’s
relationship, Simons and Lee have two children. Ming Lee Simons and Aoki
Lee Simons are two daughters of the famous former couple.
He is also the founder of Def Jam Recordings and Rush Community.

 

These
two entertainment business houses are very popular in America. In the
year 1992 Simons founded a clothing company. That is the very famous
fashion company, Phat Fashion LLC.

 

The flagship brand of this company is
Phat Farm.
Simons has started various charitable institutes. Rush Philanthropic Arts
Foundation is one of the charitable foundations, established by Simons.
This organization donates money for arts programs in the black public
schools.
Russell Simons

Roland drum machine called the 808

The Roland’s TR-808 Rhythm Composer is the first programmable drum machine ever
invented. The drum machine was introduced in 1980 by the Roland Corporation. The
machine was however invented to create demos for the studio musicians. However, one
of the major drawbacks of the Roland TR-808 is the poor sound quality as compared to
the older Roland Drum machines. It is incapable of producing sounds like the real drum
kit and many technicians compare the sound of the TR-808 as marching anteaters.

Nevertheless, the Tr-808 is much more affordable than the other drum machines of that
period.

One of the earliest memories of performance by using a Roland TR-808 drum machine is
a performance by Yellow Magic Orchestra in December 1980. TR-808 is an important
step ahead from the earlier used CR-78.

 

The sound of TR-808 is considered to have more punch and the sound is more powerful than

others of the same type are. The sound system of the machine also allows the user to

control the sounds in the real time.The
machine TR-808 has more memory space than the

contemporaries do of the same period and the sufficient pattern locations that were available

with the machine allowed the user to produce songs by tying them in chains and the user

could store these songs in the machine itself.

The use of this drum machine seizes to exist during the early 80’s. However, it regained its
popularity because many of the musicians use the sounds of TR-808 in drum and bass,
R&B, house, electro, hip-hop and many other forms of electronic dance music. The
sound of TR-808 is also sampled for use in modern instruments that are required variously
in the production of music.

 

 

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Akai MPC

Akai MPC is the most popular among the other type of musical tool that is used to listen
to all the genres of music. Akai MPC is the unique piece of electronic boon that has a
rhythmic feel to the sound and the parts and the machinery works together to make the
Akai MPC the best functional among the many other drum machines. The drum machine
has a vintage feel to it with classic features; but painted in a modern way to make it look
at-par with the techno world of the 21st century.

The Akai MPC is a sample, drum machine and a MIDI sequencer all packed into a single
instrument. There are also various buttons dedicated for the specific functions. The MPC
also has an informative graphic display with comparatively soft keys and an interactive
help function that makes your learning process quite easier and faster. The Akai MPC
uses a good quality sound engine that makes the sound have a good texture and the
loudness, pitch and the bass of the sound through the system is much clearer than in
other music systems of the same genre.

 

The facilities of polyphonic sounds and the option of stereo sampling are also available with the sampler.

The other facilities that makes the drum machine popular and increases your craze for buying the material are
resonant digital filter with additional envelope per voice, built-in floppy disk and SCSI
interface, the note capacity of the product is also quite high as compared to other
samples. The other features include Simulsequence for allowing two systems to play
simultaneously and flexible synchronization capabilities.

 

 

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Tim and Bob the production duo

The production duo’s real names are Tim Kelly and Bob Robinson but they are better
known in the music world as Tim& Bob. The duo is also sometimes referred as “The
Funktwons”. The American production duo’s biggest hit was “Thong song” by Sisqo. The
main characteristics of the Tim & Bob production is the Asian centered creations and
percussions are based on the drum machine.

 

The greatest achievement of the duo has been the nomination of the duo for 6 Grammy awards.

However, they won only two of them with Boyz II Men and TLC. The most popular track

Slow Down by Bobby Valentino in his debut album was also under the production

supervision of the duo. They were the Executive Producers of the concerned debut album.

The duo is a refreshing change in the mundane area of same type of music production
as they have incorporated various styles of music and have set trends with various genres
of music like R&B, pop, techno, etc. Their main production works has the names of
various reputed artists like Sisqo’s “Thong Song”, Jon B’s “They Don’t Know”, Tamia’s “So
Into You”, TLC, Monica and many more.

 

Their albums are hugely popular and the world is
looking forward to their upcoming work with Tyrese, Ginuwine, Shante Moore, Dru Hill
and many others. The duo has signed a publishing deal with DreamWorks. It is also on the
news that they have started a new record label named “Pure Entertainment” mutually
collaborating with Nate Smith. Their debut album for the new production label is Athena
Cage’s “Let Me Know”.

 

 

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Teddy Riley

Edward Theodore Riley performed on the field of music from 10 March 1924 to 14
November 1992. He was both a jazz artist and a producer. As a jazz artist, he played the
jazz trumpet and was a bandleader. He could also play flugelhorn.

 

As a jazz artist, he recorded with Rhythm and Blues bands. There are various artists and performers with
whom Teddy worked like Fats Domino, Roy Brown’s band, Champion Jack Dupri, The
William Brass Band, The Royal Brass band and The Dookie Chase Orchestra. In Wynton
Marsalis’ “The Majesty Of Blues”, he made a guest appearance in the year 1989.

Besides being a jazz artist, he was also an American R&B, musician, record producer and
a hip-hop singer cum songwriter. He was also the ringleader of “Guy” in the 80’s and
“Blackstreet” in the 90’s. However during the late 80’s and early 90’s Teddy fused the
Blackstreet and Guy and the fused version was named “New Jack Swing”.

 

New Jack Swing is the fused style of music presentation that became famous during the
late 80’s and early 90’s. It went on to mix the production techniques, rhythms and
samples of hip-hop with the contemporary urbane sounds of R&B. Before the foundation
of the New Jack Swing, the rappers were street and the contemporary artists were soft
and much more rhythmic.

 

Thus, Teddy wanted to try a new blend of the two forms of
music and that literally became popular because of its unique style and presentation
forms. New Jack Swing songs are melodious singlet or are harmonizing lyrics. They either
address romantic themes with street beats at the background.

 

 

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Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are an American production team who has been working
together since 1980’s. Jimmy Jam or James Harris was born on June 6, 1959 in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Terry Lewis was born on November 24, 1956 in Omaha,
Nebraska. They work as a production team and has achieved great success in the field
of music production.

The pair met up for the first time to form the band called “Fyle Tyme” which later got
rechristened into “The Time”. The four albums that the group produced as their first are
“The Time”, “What Time Is It?” and “Pandemonium”. The albums “The Time” and “What
Time Is It?” shaped the R&B music of the early eighties. They worked with various artists
like The SOS Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal. However, their most ravishing success
came with the duo’s work with Janet Jackson with the release of her album “Control” in
the year 1986.

 

The duo won Grammy awards for the same album. Their next album
together was “Rhythm Nation” that is considered even more successful than the previous
one.

James and Terry Lewis founded the record label Perspective Records around this time.
They worked with many great artists of the era like Jordan Knight, Michael Jackson, Boyz
ii Men, Usher, Mary and The Human League, Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige. Another of
the achievements of the duo is attending Utada Hikaru’s concert in Japan named
Bohemian Summer.

 

On December 19, 2007, the duo is declared as “The Greatest
Producers of All Time” on “The Cedric Muhammed And Black Coffee Program”. They
won the reputation beating the mammoth competitors, the likes of which are Kanye
West, Babyface, Timbaland and quite a few others.

Eminem and his contributions

The 1973 born American rapper took to rapping at a very early age and joined various
groups like the Basement Productions, The New Jacks and D12. He released a debut
album in the year 1997 through an independent label FBT named “Infinite” which was
hugely encored by the audience. His underground hits that were hugely popular include
“just Don’t Give a Fuck”. After the success of this album, Dr Dre signed Eminem to the
Aftermath. However, Eminem remained controversies’ most loved child as his songs
reflected “irresponsibility” according to the Christian moral majority who spoke against
the lyrics of his song “97 Bonnie & Claude”.

Eminem made the video “My Band” with D12 in the year 2004. The song acted as a
sarcastic answer to the portrayal of D12 as Eminem’s band that gives no importance and
value to other members of the concerned band. Mathers founded D12 in the year 2001
as a rap group with its debut album “Devil’s Night”.

 

The songs of the album like the “Purple Pills” were so controversial because of the lyrical

content that they were orderedto rewrite the song. Other hits of the album include

“Shit On You” and “Fight Music”. In the year 2004, they took out “D12 World” that featured

hits like “My Band”. In the year 2002, Eminem released three albums with 50-Cent under Aftermath and
collaborated with Dr Dre and D12. He also worked for G-funk and took out various
albums and singles that had his own signature.

 

Although Eminem under Aftermath took out various platinum and multiplatinum albums, the singer

is always known in the music circle as a straightforward artist who does not stammer to express his own beliefs.