As followers of hip hop, we all know what it means to listen to a tune and listen to a well-recognized sound, solely to then find yourself in an countless thriller loop of determining what the pattern is and the place it got here from. Generally you discover it, generally you don’t. That conundrum has lastly come to an finish.
In a current look, Travis Scott was seen talking about Spotify’s SongDNA characteristic, which helps you chop to the chase. The characteristic lets customers dive deeper into the tune’s origins (or DNA) to determine what different songs are associated to it.
It helps unravel questions like “The place does this pattern initially come from? At what level does the pattern begin within the tune? What different songs, writers, composers or producers are related to the tune?” The solutions are, in fact, shocking and revealing on the similar time. Whereas it’s a nice supply of pleasure for followers, for music producers it’s an particularly useful device that may assist navigate inspirations and improvements embedded inside their favorite items of music.
In fact, a rapper-producer like Travis Scott is a fan of it. “I noticed Music DNA on Spotify final night time,” Scott mentioned. “By the way in which, this sh*t is f*****g loopy,” he added as he spoke about the way it offers followers the flexibility to see who’s engaged on what and the way useful it’s for artists.
In case you’re nonetheless confused about what the characteristic does, right here’s an instance that hyperlinks Travis Scott to artists like George Clinton & even Justin Bieber! Living proof is Travis Scott’s ‘Hyaena’ tune that samples Funkadelic’s ‘Maggot Mind’ linking him to George Clinton (who was a co-writer on the tune) in addition to Travis’ contemporaries like Mike Dean and WondaGurl.
On the similar time, ‘Hyaena’ additionally hyperlinks Travis Scott to Justin Bieber as a result of Bieber’s ‘Die In Your Arms’ additionally samples Melvin Bliss’ ‘Artificial Substitution’ which was a tune that got here out in 1973. Mainly, you’ll find connections between totally different music items you by no means knew existed, and go on a sonic exploration of your personal. It’s a good way to find artists — each outdated and new, straight away, with the choice to save lots of these discoveries to your library. What a neat little trick! So, do you suppose you’re going to be utilizing it quite a bit?