The Studio as Instrument
A Tribe Called Quest (with Ron Carter)
“Verses from the Abstract”
The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991)
is one of the first albums I ever bought. My dad [drummer Stephen McCraven] being a jazz musician, I knew about Ron Carter; the crossover on “Verses from the Abstract” of his live instrumentation—his upright bass—with sampling and production is really dope. It was modern and electronic, or acoustic, especially at a time when there wasn’t an avenue for creating out-of-the-box content.
