Does anyone else find Enter The 36 Chambers unappealing?

[nieman]

A spinoff question would be does anyone think that high quality sound is detracting from current music? I mean there's a reason why tracks still sound the best on vinyl.

Now if you're old enough, after the 90 min Maxell/TDK mixtape era, with stolen tracks dubbed 8x over and a DJ's drops over every bar, you can listen to anything. Everything doesn't have to be polished. But in RZA's case, a lot of it was intentional. Look at Wu-Tang Ain't Nuthin to F Wit video, then look at Can It Be. One is grainy, and one is polished. For the songs, one sounds like it was made in a basement studio and recorded on cassette and 1 sounds like a vinyl track.

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

naw. Top 10 of 93' maybe but all time,no way

The fact that not a soul dapped this shows you're just an east coast hating fool whose thoughts never reflect the majority

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

The fact that not a soul dapped this shows you're just an east coast hating fool whose thoughts never reflect the majority

36 chambers is a classic but they're are plenty of albums better

 

[GeeEffKay]

Its extremely appealing

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

here's the page i was referring to out of the wu-manual


as you see, rza stayed with the latest equipment.. soon as a new one came out, he'd go grab it


bout midway you see where he talks about sampling rate. the newer machines had higher sampling rates, and made shyt sound more clear.. but what he would do is lower the sample rate on purpose, make it sound more gritty, and then sample for longer.. that's another way he would get the sped up samples too... sample slow, play it faster... he goes on to say that later on, people would call that "lo-fi" but he liked that sound better



i love this book for real... gave so much insight to how shyt was done and how the wu was created and planned out... this nikka rza is truly on another level

 

[Mowgli]

Just the way it sounds... I respect and admire the lyricism, but the production and quality just isn't appealing.

Maybe it was a victim of the time period, but illmatic came out a year later and it sounds so much better sonically. This isn't a thread meant to hate on 90's hip-hop, because I love 90's rap.

You're a victim of bad taste. Sonically.

I kinda get what OP is saying assuming he's not trolling. I never check for half of this album.

METHOD Man is still one of my favorite joints to this day. Bring Da Ruckus is genius, especially that beat skip at the end. Those are the kind of peculiarities that are totally missing from modern rap and keep it from being classic.

But you waited till you were an adult to get into rap.

 

[Mowgli]

I understand where you're coming from. The sound quality is bad. It almost turned me off. Imagine if you're a young kids during this time trying to get into the Wu? The sound will turn u off.

I was a kid when it came out and it was great.

But I been into hiphop since age 6

 

[SirBiatch]

But you waited till you were an adult to get into rap.

You wish

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Just the way it sounds... I respect and admire the lyricism, but the production and quality just isn't appealing.

Maybe it was a victim of the time period, but illmatic came out a year later and it sounds so much better sonically. This isn't a thread meant to hate on 90's hip-hop, because I love 90's rap.

how old are you

 

[mobbinfms]

Just the way it sounds... I respect and admire the lyricism, but the production and quality just isn't appealing.

Maybe it was a victim of the time period, but illmatic came out a year later and it sounds so much better sonically. This isn't a thread meant to hate on 90's hip-hop, because I love 90's rap.

Hope you found this neg unappealing

 

[FunkDoc1112]

The dirty sound was definitely intentional. If you ever listen to the clean version of the album or any of the singles the sound quality is crystal clear with some extra bells and whistles added to some of the beats, too.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

yeah rza said all the memebrs had different eq sittings on their mics

I remember a couple of joints on Ironman had Ghostface's voice sounding all weird and deep. I assume those were songs RZA wasn't involved in for the vocals because he said he EQ's Ghost's mic to accentuate the high pitch whined in his voice.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Not really actually that's what made me like it so much it's going for the gritty low-fi sound that matches with the kung fu samples going in and out of it.

Exactly.

Imagine 36 Chambers remade by trap producers with those fruity ass hi-hats and other bullshyt

 

[Xtz23]

Op trippin 36 chambers is one of the
best albums ever.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

You just gotta appreciate it for what it is. It sounded good then because it was fresh and new then. If an album sounds like that today...ehhhh

It also gets the legendary nod because it sounded like nothing else at the time. That shyt transcended music and sparked a phenomenon, and basically the underground scene followed...

Its as classic as it gets