Stones Throw CEO and beat digger extraordinaire Peanut Butter Wolf has collected the lion’s share of his early productions on a soon to be released compilation called Straight To Tape: 1990-1992.
Says the Wolf:
“Not so sure about anything with these songs except for the fact that I made them while living with my mom in the early 90’s and almost all were recorded with the rappers rapping through headphones plugged straight into the DJ mixer. My original idea with this comp was to put stuff I did throughout the 90’s in honor of the 999 shows I’m doing, but I just discovered SO MANY songs from this 3-year period that I made that the focus. I didn’t use compression on anyone’s voice nor did I know what that was back then. That’s why the vocals are all over the place. Most songs didn’t have effects on the voices either. A lot of adding loops on top of other loops live, which made it sloppy.”
Respect to PB Wolf for reminding us how they threw down in the days before every bedroom producer had a MacBook and a pirated copy of Ableton. Straight To Tape: 1990-1992 will be available at the Wolf’s upcoming 999 dates.
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