Rap Legend Jesse Dangerously started making beats at the age of thirteen using a DOS program called Scream Tracker 3. In high school he graduated to Impulse Tracker 2.14, but since it became a Windows world he's been sort of a software hobo. Hip-hop was the most inspiring force in the world as far as he was concerned, and he studied rap beats and liner notes (sample credits!) obsessively ever since he got into the music. This instilled the need to dig, although in the first few years he didn't always dig deep enough (beats made from The Beatles, Green Day and compilation drums? NO.). Fundamentally, Jesse D is about taking the dopest tiny moments from his enormous and ever-expanding record collection and smash them together with one another until something slamming is created. Synthesizers and drum machines are viewed with suspicion and trepidation but definitely have their role to play. Mostly, your boy is all about pillaging wax and creating clever combinations.
After producing every track on his first three albums, Jesse D went on production hiatus in 2003 (around when Windows started making life difficult) and hasn't produced a beat on an album of his own since then. However he's continued to collect wax and mess with various programs... in the meanwhile making beats that appeared on albums by Restiform Bodies, Johnny Hardcore, Bleubird, Toolshed, Bending Mouth, Wordburglar and More or Les. A return to the producer's chair for Dangerously was inevitable. Put your ears on this magic.
