Once upon a time a guy with mixed brazilian and Southern U.S. roots that brought to my ears a great pair of works that we can call “conceptual collaboration” or mash-ups, if you prefer. That guy’s name is Amerigo Gazaway, beatmaker, producer and musician from Nashville, TN. Today we finally reached him and we had a very interesting chat …
Happy to sit down with Bedroom Beethovens podcast for a chat about producer related-stuff. Listen to the full interview below and subscribe on iTunes. “Forging an evolution of the “mashup” album format, producer Amerigo Gazaway’s “conceptual collaboration” projects imagine studio sessions between like artists of different genres and eras. It would be boring if we …
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Big salute to Okayplayer for including my Nina Simone x Lauryn Hill project “The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon“ as one of their Best Mashups of 2018. Here’s what they had to say about it: “For Amerigo Gazaway, the art of the mash-up is more than just pitch and pace adjustments. The sample-splicing specialist has helmed some …
Blackout Hip-Hop.com: Amerigo Gazaway is an artist every true Hip Hop fan has come across in the past few years. His mash-up mixtapes like Fela Soul (Fela Kuti & De La Soul), A Bizarre Tribe (The Pharcyde & A Tribe Called Quest), Yasiin Gaye (Marvin Gaye & Yasiin Bay a.k.a. Mos Def) and A Common Wonder …
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Amerigo Gazaway spoke to The Real Hip-Hop about how he got into creating mashups, what goes into his creative process, and his new album, A Common Wonder. TRHH: Common and Stevie Wonder are my two favorite artists. There are similarities in their soulfulness, did that make it a no-brainer for you to combine their music for …
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Thanks to The Nashville Scene for choosing “A Common Wonder” as Best Mashup Album for this year’s “Best of Nashville” list. Read more below and check out the full article here. It’s worth pointing out that Amerigo Gazaway is one of the world’s best at using the connections between two artists’ bodies of work to make new …
This week, we sit down with Bay Area DJ / Producer Amerigo Gazaway to talk about discovering hip hop through his brother’s box of cassettes, his latest mashup featuring Common and Stevie Wonder, and his favorite album covers of all time.
What inspired you to create mash-ups? Do you have a favorite one? AG: I started making remixes because I wanted to hear what it would sound like to have artists actually rapping on my productions. That’s also the reason I started writing lyrics. When producing, sometimes having an acapella in the mix also helps me …
Over 30-something years as a part of music, digital sampling has become more restricted by the industry even as technology to manipulate and recombine samples has introduced infinite creative possibilities. Gazaway’s experiences have led him to become an advocate for copyright law reform and for technologies that ease the process of clearing samples. “There’s gonna …
This week on The Library, Tim Einenkel’s interview with the producer of The Trill is Gone, Yasiin Gaye, Fela Soul, & Bizarre Tribe; Amerigo Gazaway. Amerigo joins Tim to discuss what he calls “conceptual collaborations”. Gazaway talks about what inspires him to do mash ups, how he comes up with ideas and what happens when …
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