Nonetheless, Fat Jon is a longtime MASCHINE user – MASCHINE appears in some form on his 2012 outerspace trip Rapture Kontrolle, the Tephlon Funk series and his 2020 full-length God’s Fifth Wish, as well as upcoming and unreleased projects. His philosophy is to keep doing things differently and finding new colors for his palette as his approach to making music evolves, so does his sound. While many true-school hip-hop producers remain steadfast in their strict worship of classic tools like the MPC or the SP-1200, Jon likes to stay up-to-date on beat machines and synthesizers, swapping them in and out of his production set-up. Many will know the Ample Soul Physician via his beats ‘n’ rhymes for Cincinnati rap clique Five Deez or the lush sci-fi soul grooves of Samurai Champloo, the anime series he scored alongside cult Japanese producer Nujabes perhaps you’ve checked out his beat tapes for the NYC-based Tephlon Funk manga series or one of his eight solo albums, which run the gamut between celestial moods, warm and cinematic boom-bap and blunted downtempo. Since the mid-’90s, Fat Jon has been plying the beatmosphere with all manner of melodic, multi-layered and funky hip-hop instrumentals, long before Dilla and Madlib were household names.
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