After a fire there, the rest was made at Solar’s Galaxy studios, where he made use of a state-of-the-art SSL console, a huge, futuristic mixing board with pre-programmable “flying faders” capable of automatically adjusting itself to your preferred settings. Dre recorded the first half of his solo debut The Chronic (which came out near the end of 1992) at his Calabasas house, in a bedroom he’d converted into a studio. In the studio, Dre was hoping to capture the magic of Parliament-Funkadelic member Bernie Worrell’s eerie, melodic keyboard sounds, and so he had engineer Colin Wolfe go out and buy a Moog.įollowing the album Dre left NWA and its label Ruthless Records, owing to a money dispute with Eazy-E, who owned the label, and NWA’s manager, Jerry Heller. Always into Something is a slow-building sonic masterpiece, kicking off with a spoken word MC Ren introduction and a quick Dre verse before unveiling the alien-sounding, high-pitched synthesizer sound, similar to the “funky worm”. Whereas their previous album Straight Outta Compton was all over the place sonically, Efil is mostly unified in its doomsday grooves. Efil4zaggin marks a great leap forward in Dr Dre’s production skills. The sound was next heard on NWA’s second full-length album, 1991’s Efil4zaggin (Niggaz 4 Life spelled backward), the first gangsta rap album to hit No1.
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