RIP Michael Jackson

Dang, 2 years since the King Of Pop passed, Rest In Peace Michael and thank you for the great music!

Figure I'd post a Louis Den throwback and something from our extended fam to mark the event.

First off is the audio reel from Louis Den Homework #24 which was our Michael Jackson challenge, this was one of the toughest homeworks to date as it required producers to dig through Michaels solo catlog and raid it for every single sound available to flip into a beat (thats EVERY sound...drums/basses/synths you name it).

Some ill beats got turned in but a bit of a sleepy studio session meant that there was the traditional lab video to back it up with (that we used to put out weekly back then)..

Anyway, short of a month its great to look back at a 3 year old homework!

Louis Den Homework 24 Audio


Remember, this is a retrospective look back! most if not all the producers here have improved incredibly in 3 years and some may have floated into Louis Den obscurity!!

A requirement of the homework was to break down the process; although some didn't; read below for the process of those that did (I filled in the gaps where I could), this is copied and pasted from the original blog entry on the louisden myspace.

12 ORIGINAL PLAYERS (http://myspace.com/twelveoriginalplayers) I only used "Off The Wall" and "Thriller" as I refuse to own anything with "Dirty Diana" on it! When I started, all I had was a 7" of "Rock With You" so chopped some of the drums and some vocal stabs from there, and eventually layered them into the obvious kick and snare from everyone's fav, "Billie Jean". Once I had the drums rocking, I chopped up some bass notes from "Baby Be Mine" before adding a touch of guitar from "The Girl Is Mine". There's some additional vocal flavour sliced and diced from "It's The Falling In Love". BUDGIE (http://www.myspace.com/budgiefirebeats) sample = lady in my life (thriller) bass = billie jean kick drum looped synth = billie jean kick drum looped kick = billie jean kick processed/ eqed to shit percussion = workin day and night (off the wall) snare = workin day and night or something else on off the wall random hiccups/ breaths = throughout off the wall and thriller CHEMO aka DJ BUM HANDS (lol) (http://www.myspace.com/chemoproductions) Sounds like Liberian Girl from Bad formed the main part of the beat up im guessin the drum hits must have been from Thriller or Bad as they seem to be an 808 kit. (kos) KING JAY (http://www.myspace.com/11i01011) Sounds like "I Cant Help It" formed the main part of this beat. (kos) JIMMY GREEN (http://www.myspace.com/stupidfreshmain) Drums - from Beat It Samples - from The Lady In My Life JOE DAVIS (http://www.myspace.com/emceejoed) I got the hi-hat from billie jean..layered kicks from rock with you..a snare from rock with you layered with a snare from billie jean..bass is from leave me alone..and main melodic sample is from rock with you. JON PHONICS (http://www.myspace.com/jonphonics) Sounds like "I Cant Help It" forming the main chop/loop. (kos) KOSYNE (http://www.myspace.com/kosyne) The kick drums are layered they came from "Get On The Floor" and "Billie Jean"; I stuck a low pass filter on the "Billie Jean" kick to bring it out a little and used another one normally; the hihat came from "Billie Jean" as did the snare which I also layered with a rim from "Liberian Girl". Theres a hipass filter on some pitched down vocals I took from "Lady In My Life" and I took the synth keys from the start of "Just Good Friends" and finally I made my bassline by taking a snip of the "Billie Jean" kick setting loop points (so it repeats) and adding a filter/bass boost. LIKE MIKE (http://www.myspace.com/likemke) Chopped "Human Nature". NIK (http://www.myspace.com/nikmusiq) Kickdrum 1: Billie Jean (Thriller) Kickdrum 2: P.Y.T. (Thriller) Snare: Billie Jean (Thriller) HiHat 1: Billie Jean (Thriller) HiHat 2: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Thriller) HiHat 3: Don't Stop Till You Get Enough (Off The Wall) Main Sample: Off The Wall (Off The Wall) Hits, short parts etc.: All hits and little parts and something else like thats cames from mj's "Off The Wall"! So you really got all I did with the beat...of course there is a lot of equalizing and compression work for drums, the main sample and its hits and little parts! PHOCUS (http://www.myspace.com/phocusbeats) Seemed to take a lot of bits from various tracks, I reckon I can hear the "Billy Jean" drums, elements of "Rock With You" and "Smooth Criminal" but theres much more in there! (kos). PURPOSE (http://www.myspace.com/tragicpurpose) Sounds like "Human Nature" forming the main chop (kos) RAW SOUNDZ (http://www.myspace.com/teklab07) Used the drums from "Billie Jean" and chopped up part of "Lady In My Life"

Finally, P.L.O from Associated Minds (Den heads my recognise him from Wrapped Up 2009 and Wrapped Up 2010) decided to remake "Beat It" from scratch; right down to the very intricate Eddie Van Halen guitar solo....incredible!! check it out and shouts to the AM camp!.

P.L.O of Associated Minds - Beat It Instrumental Remake