I’ve long been a visual person and have thought about doing more art for quite some time. I’ve been using a few design tools like Figma and Canva for mock-ups for work and finally decided to try my hand at some odd creations.
Below are a few of my first attempts at a concept using some of my favorite colors (green and grey). I think they came out nicely:
We were BBQ’ing with my bro-in-law a while back, and as we got started, he asked me what to search for on Pandora for good outdoor party tunes. I immediately spit out the word “funk.” The subsequent Pandora station that we got using that search team definitely queue’d up a few decent grooves, but nothing really caught my ear until this track from one of the funkiest (the?) backing bands ever:
James Brown – “Blind Man Can See It”
While the intro had a nice vamp, what really caught my ear was the groove that kicked in after a minute or two…a nice little jangly guitar riff combined with some soul-stirring keys. The sound literally brought my ears back to the early 90s to what was probably one of my 1st CDs…Das EFX’s Dead Serious. After a couple of measures, I was waiting for that unforgettable opening line to drop in….”bum skiggiddy bum skiggiddy bump!”
Check out the sample in use:
Das EFX – “They Want EFX”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalV4ThhQQM
Ha, awesome. I liggidy love the lawless early 90s of hip-hop samples.
This rocks!
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody [YouTube]
That said, I think I am still partial to classical Beeker: