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The Secret to Timbaland’s Futuristic Sounds
His mosaic approach turned him into one of the best producers of all time.
Call it the mosaic approach: The longtime producer picks a sample; blends it with odd, custom tones he crafted himself; throws in some polyrhythm; and then spits out a futuristic production that sounds like it was beamed directly from Mars. Megan: In the early ’90s, songwriting partners Missy Elliott and Timbaland left their home state of Virginia and went to New Jersey to work with the R&B group Jodeci. That’s a really powerful statement as an artist and producer to create this signature that will be indelibly connected to your song because, simply, it doesn’t exist anywhere else.
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