#El tao tao full#

I listened to this demo and it was the originalвЂ¦ you know he wrote that That heвЂ™s not around anymore and there will be nowhere else to get his ItвЂ™s an album and the other is that itвЂ™s a collection, an anthology of CamuвЂ™s Well, thereвЂ™s two ways to look at this record. It seems as though heвЂ™s still milling the song in his Television Time is the fully-realized version and IвЂ™m curious about the Included the raw demo of вЂњKill MeвЂќ as the last song. That love for him gave me purpose to complete this. IвЂ™ve got to get in there and really expose myself to myДЇriend when IвЂ™m still emotionally raw about everything. I think it was emotionally difficult because it took me a second The process wasnвЂ™t as grueling as much as the emotionalДЄspect of it. IвЂ™d tried to be faithful.ДЇor a friend itвЂ™s probably not as difficult. Length of some stuff because it was just one little hook and a beat, but those There were decisions that had to be made on cutting the It was about getting the closest possible representation of theДЄlbum he had in mind. He did the beat on or the Logic file heвЂ™d recorded the vocals on. Others I had to go into Garageband to find the original file A lot of them werenвЂ™t even mixed because there were no files, just It was distorted we would keep as much intact to get the best mix on that When we found the files and would mix them, we would keep his levels if For the most part, I stuck to what his sound What had to be on his record, but him deciding.

#El tao tao full#

Incomplete, in the sense that they werenвЂ™t 100% done, but most of them had full The demos heвЂ™d done, in the order he wanted them. HeвЂ™d shared with us all that was basically a representation of his record. Sound or did you want to leave it completely as is? Of Hearts posthumous release was there any temptation to mess with the Through these demos, planning out the King He lived for a year and a half after that.

When he finally got diagnosed the doctor gave him two weeks That when you listen to the music and the lyrics. A lot of the songs that were written reflected Something or trying to eat and just clutching his stomach in pain. Really questioned it because he never really let on.Д®very once in a while, in retrospect, I remember him eating Only from everyone around him, but he didnвЂ™t admit it. Something was wrong with him and he knew it. I think Camu knew that he was sick longer than he had beenДiagnosed. Recording process did he know? Did he work on the whole record knowing? The songs he made are the songs he made and most of I do think the album would have been different KnowingД¬amu, he had a lot of talented musician friends he would have liked to haveД¬ollaborated and have involved. A lot of them wouldnвЂ™t have changed much. The songs are bare, but then again a lot of We all expected to get Camu in the studio and go as farДЄs he wanted to go with the record. I'm wondering: how much of the work done here is posthumous, and how much was conceived before Camu died? Of Hearts and the Central Services record you two did together. But El-P was prepared to discuss his friend's work with the knowledge that the release forces us to hear the finality of death. What's left is the skeletal demos, almost minimalist. Vocally Camu sounds unrestrained and brilliant, but the record lacks completion, as he never got the chance to flesh out his songs. I had a lot of apprehension going into an interview with a close friend of the rapper, who died of lung cancer in 2008. Initially, El-P and I struggled to determine whether we would discuss Central Services, his one-time collaboration with the departed rapper Camu Tao, as well as Camu's unfinished solo record, King Of Hearts.