My First Beastie Boys Experience with Intergalactic! Vocal Analysis of rap?

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• DA

  @davidfrancis1107 · 2 years ago

  ‘Sabotage’ has to be your next Beastie Boys experience

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• RE

  @renlessard · 2 years ago

  &quot;rhymes approaching the ridiculous&quot;<br><br>Well yeah. It&apos;s the Beastie Boys

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• JA

  @jasonbrock2681 · 2 years ago

  That &quot;mmmmmm-drop!&quot; that had you laughing is actually a call back to a previous Beastie Boys song.

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• LO

  @LogicalNiko · 2 years ago (edited)

  Three Jewish kids from a jazz background trying to be a punk band in Brooklyn and then accidently stumbling on 1st gen rap of Grand Master Flash and The Sugar Hill Gang. &nbsp;They then switching their game up and becoming one of the first people to kickstart the modern rap era, and being the start of Def Jam Records. &nbsp;They are ridiculous because these circumstances were ridiculous. &nbsp;They wrapped an immense amount of talent around the fun and the party aspect of the scene, making nothing quite say party like the Beastie Boys.<br><br>And that R2D2 sound is Mario C. (Mario Caldato, the producer on this) and Ad-Rock between turn tables, synth, and sample edits.

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• BR

  @brianforgos3194 · 2 years ago

  The &quot;R2D2&quot; sound is a DJ, Mixmaster Mike, cutting and scratching a record. His turntables are connected to a Wah-wah pedal to get that distorted sound

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• SE

  @seventhson2151 · 2 years ago

  I like my sugar with coffee and cream

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• SC

  @ScottLovenberg · 2 years ago

  The rule is that the Beastie Boys took the music itself, and the craft <b>very</b> seriously, but took themselves not seriously at all. They were true craftsman and a lot of the things you hear from them and think, &quot;this sounds like xyz&quot; are things they pioneered. BB are consistently praised by top tier artists in every genre. Reportedly their album Paul&apos;s Boutique was Miles Davis&apos; favorite album up until he died.

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• SI

  @SirFrag32 · 1 year ago

  Fun fact: They didn&apos;t have permisssion to film in the subway, they just did it anyway.

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• JO

  @johndevoist8129 · 2 years ago

  This confirms that Elizabeth has grown up from an extremely sheltered childhood.

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• US

  @user-scott-pearce · 2 years ago

  When thinking of the beastie boys I can’t help but think of the cartoon Futurama set 1000 years in the future, the character Fry, who was frozen in 1999, meets their persevered talking heads in a jar and says he had all 5 of their albums, the beastie boys respond by saying “That was a 1000 years ago, now we got 7”

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• NO

  @noneprovided689 · 2 years ago

  <b>If my rap’s soup, my beats is stock.</b> &nbsp;<br><br>…the most undersold, under-appreciated line in the song.

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• MA

  @marshallindustries726 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The crazy thing is the boys have perfect pitch, while sounding like they&apos;re yelling, and rapping. Super super hard to do. &nbsp;They used a Vocoder for the Intergalactic voice. In the early 1970s, Moog developed a vocoder with Wendy Carlos for the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange. Artists such as ELO (“Mr. Blue Sky,” 1977) and Kraftwerk (“The Robots,” 1978) popularizing its sound.<br><br>There are bits of classical music flowing through this song. Rachmaninoff&apos;s &quot;Prelude C-sharp Minor,&quot; sampled from a recording by Les Baxter played on a synthesizer, is blended into the verses. The piece of classical music at the beginning of the song is &quot;Night on Bald Mountain&quot; by Modest Mussorgsky. Also sampled is &quot;Love is Blue&quot; by The Jazz Crusaders.<br><br>Mix Master Mike is the DJ (turntablist) on this track scratching your &quot;R2-D2 &quot; sounds. Mix Master Mike is often credited with inventing the Tweak Scratch. The scratch is performed by moving the record back and forth while the platter motor is stopped. The inertia of the platter causes the sounds to slow and drop in pitch in an unusual manner. He is also well known for the unusual technique of using a wah-wah pedal, an effect most commonly used by guitarists, with his turntables.<br><br><br>All of them are self taught musicians, and because of that they experimented with everything, helping to pioneer a huge amount of music in some many different genres. All just natural talent; style and having fun.

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