The Are is a Houston-area producer (somewhere an English professor’s head just exploded) who has been making beats since the early ’90s. According to his , dude has worked with hip-hop luminaries like Zion I, Phife Dawg, Lone Catalysts, Masta Ace, and Lords of the Underground. He was also a member of K-Otix, an excellent, underrated group from Texas best remembered for
Below are two The Are albums for your downloading and listening pleasure. The first, called Dem Damb Jacksons, constists entirely of Jackson 5-sampled beats. The second, and more interesting of the two, is called Manipulated Marauders. On it, The Are re-works the samples A Tribe Called Quest used for Midnight Marauders, thus forging beats that seem to dwell perpetually in limbo – their familiar melodies chopped into new, unique creations. Apparently, he decided to take on the project after a : “I was in NY and heard a Tribe joint from the Midnight Marauders album. I thought to myself it would be dope to take all the original Midnight Marauder samples and re-work them to make new joints.”
The Are – (?, 2007?)
The Are – (?, 2007?)
