Thanks to Mike and Janie from Skopemag, for this short
introduction to ya boy NiQ and the new Single ‘Rocker’. Check it at the link
below.
—-> http://skopemag.com/2010/01/15/music-up-close-with-janie-%E2%80%93-january-2010 <—-
Rocker Album Cover
“My engineer J (VJ OZ), had came back from on tour with MSTRKRFT and was very inspired by his recent trip to L.A. as well as the tour. He wanted to make something for their scene but with a different feel so he asked me to jump over a very basic version of what’s now Rocker.
So I spit a hook I had in my head for a single I wanted to make. I had a good idea the type of beat I wanted it over and Rocker wasn’t it. But J convinced me to spit also spit a verse for it, and next time I came in the studio..about 2 days later, OZ had produced the track up and also auto tuned my hook with some other plug ins as well so it sounded different then the norm. I spit my new verse I’d brought with me and he thought it was stronger than the other verse I had spit the first night, so I listen to the beat for 30 mins and then made what’s now the 1st verse – and the rest was history.
All in all I never envisioned making a track like that and 2nd, never envisioned EVER doing auto tune or any plug ins on my voice. But as you can hear, I think it sounds pretty good.”
Download ‘Rocker’ by NiQ [Produced by VJ OZ] at http://www.shop.niqmusic.com
Look for more from NiQ and VJ OZ soon..
Rocker Album Cover
“I was currently producing another project where I only had the capacity to be an engineer and knew that I was only using a fraction of my talents by merely twisting knobs, so I wanted to compose something of my own free will.
I had mentioned to a few different rappers I was working with that I wanted to produce a song influenced by the club music I was into at the time: LMFAO, Pitbull, MSTRKRFT, Justice, and the rock and roll I have always listened to.
So me and NiQ hooked up at the Blue Moon one night and he had a hook he mentioned sometime before that needed a beat. Basically we just killed it within 90 minutes, I was trying to play electro synth on the keyboard but I couldn’t get the tone I wanted so I just stepped up to the mic and did the sound with my voice.
That turned out to be the actual sample in the final version of the song. Listening to electro sometimes seems like rock to me and very easy to translate to the guitar with sorta the same feel, so I just played what fit and stayed away from overly complicated riffs or solos to keep in the pocket.
I took a long time to mix on this, just redoing and tweaking things till them fell into place, we got it mastered in NYC at Sterling Sound by Will Quinnell a few times to get the right aggressiveness, and all the hard work had finally come together into one perfect single. ”
Download ‘Rocker’ by NiQ [Produced by VJ OZ] at http://www.shop.niqmusic.com
Look for more from NiQ and VJ OZ soon..
