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He provides beats for the likes of Vic Mensa, but also DJs to huge crowds in clubs all over the world. Here's 10 essential tracks to listen to. Kaytranada, real name Louis Kevin Celestin, was born in 1992 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After relocating to Montreal, Quebec as a toddler, Kaytranada began DJing at age 14. His brother introduced him to producing software at the age of 15, putting him on a slow-burning path to success. The young producer/DJ actually began under the name Kaytradamus in 2010, releasing a total of 8 projects under that moniker. Since then, he's changed his name, released a few more projects, and most recently, become a massive name and trend-setter due to his remixes of artists like TLC, Disclosure, Janet Jackson and many more. His style comes from a love of R&B and an infatuation with J Dilla's production techniques. A quick listen to this man's incredible remixes will reveal J Dilla's paw prints all over them, and the delayed, boom-bap approach has really found a niche in popular culture as he continues to play festivals and sold-out shows all over the world. The following is a list of essential Kaytranada joints. You'll find an effortless blend of R&B, soul, hip-hop, and electronica in each track, so sit back, close your eyes, and enjoy. A breakdown of how Kaytranada crafts his beats. Is there any sound quite as distinctive as a Kaytranada track? Whether it’s his solo work or one of his many collaborations, most listeners of electronic music could pick a Kaytranada tune within moments of hearing it. In a glorious genre mish-mash of R’n’B, house, hip-hop, soul, and much more, this Canadian producer makes beats that have made the world want to move endlessly. So what’s the musical thinking and production techniques and choices that make up his iconic sound? We dove into a production analysis of the phenomenal opening track of Kaytranada’s album “99.9%” with Liveschool trainer Thomas McAlister – the aptly named, “Track Uno”. Thomas makes music through his duo, Alba , as well as more heavy hitting club music through his solo project, Cop Envy . He’s also worked as a long time touring engineer for Canyons (Modular Records). While you’re reading, have a listen back to the iconic Kaytranada track in question, to get a sense for what we’re actually on about. The Use of Samples and Structure. With some vinyl fuzz, the sparking of a lighter, and some self-recorded thumps driving across your left and right speakers, a synth spins through space before the primary sample of the track opens up the album, 99.9%. And when it comes to chopping up a sample, Kaytranada definitely has it down pat. “The main motif/hook of the track is based largely around a pretty complex chop of a sample from the intro of Delegation’s ‘I Figure I’m Out of Your Life’,” says Thomas. Like a lot of sample-based tracks, the OG is old school (1982), relatively unknown – leaving you thinking, “How did they even find this?”, and in true Kaytranada style, it’s brimming with funk. You can check out the original for a slightly disorientating listen to where Kaytranada took his inspiration for Track Uno. And it’s not majorly distorted to where it’s unrecognisable. Apart from the slight increase in tempo, Kaytranada pretty much uses the sample note for note. It’s only when we get to the first breakdown, that things start getting a bit whack. “The chopped sample loop remains largely the same from when it is first introduced, to right before the first breakdown, where more articulation is added by pitch shifting the sample every fourth repetition of the looped phrase. The sample has also had sidechain compression applied to it (triggered by the kick drum) practically throughout the track, which gives it extra bounce and helps the added kick drum and sharp claps cut through,” Thomas says. “Towards the end of the track, the sample takes a background role, fading to silence and leaving only the Kaytra-added parts, which are no longer following the samples lead as closely. Then one minute later, we have a complete switch up, with a new bassline, new drum track, and a new feel entirely – this could almost be a completely different track.” Sound Selection and Design. On top of this funky sample, Kaytranada has added tonnes of his own flavourful additions, to bring the sample out of the 80’s and into the present. Kaytranadas’ percussion additions are probably one of the most distinctive things about his music – they’re sharp, energy filled, and have a tonne of swing. The percussion additions include a kick, hi-hats, clap and snare, and a shaker. “The kick drum sound is a classic of sample-based hip-hop; in that it’s short, punchy and muted. It’s hard without being in your face. The claps are super crisp and set really wide, which sets them far outside of the space that the sample sits in,” says Thomas. Next up – there are tonnes of added synths in this track. “The synth additions include a string-type synth, a bandpassed pad synth, and a mid- range arpeggiated synth,” says Thomas. But they’re not all stacked on top of each other. They each hold their own purpose – whether that’s the string synth fluttering over the looping sample line to create difference, or the pads bringing in some dreamy chords to transition into what feels like a whole new track. There’s also that groovy synth bass, which moves underneath the rest with a mind of its own. “The bass sound is a very classic analog synthesis, most likely a square wave with a low pass filter, with its cutoff being moved either by hand or with some kind of modulation, which gives a bit of extra movement and life. I reckon the bass is played by hand, as its pretty free and heavily swung.” Rhythm. Recall that iconic Kaytranada sound we’ve been rambling on about? Thomas thinks it primarily comes from the way he mixes certain sound selections with a unique blend of rhythms. “I think this combination of a very golden era hip-hop sound palette but set at a faster-paced, almost house tempo/rhythmic structure is something that he uses often – it gives it an almost crossover appeal, and stops it from being lumped in as pure “beat music” or classic instrumental hip-hop,” he says. But the complex sounding rhythm in this track, isn’t actually that complex at all. “ The rhythm of the drum track follows a very straightforward backbeat. Kick on every beat, claps on the 2nd and 4th beats and hi-hats/shakers carrying the 16ths and looking after syncopation. The four-to- floor pattern of the kick drum is key in the rhythm of this track, and the track overall, as it gives it a forward momentum, and separates it from more classic broken kick pattern found in a lot of hip-hop.” The complexity you hear in the tracks’ rhythm comes from something else. “It’s the way the sample has been chopped. It provides the tracks’ syncopation and groove, sitting nicely between the plodding backbeat. A lot of the chops in the sample happen on the off beats, either on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th sixteenth of the beat. There’s definitely some swing going on in the sample chops too, giving it even more of a syncopated groove,” says Thomas. Kaytranada also likes to play with your expectations of rhythm in subtle ways. “When he goes from a section without drums to a section with drums, he often doesn’t bring the drums back in on the 1. For example, when the drums first drop after the intro, they drop on the 3, which is a nice pickup, feeling direct and unpredictable.” So there’s just a small run down behind some of the thinking and musical choices that go into a tune by Kaytranada. If you want to get hands on and have a go yourself – try our free Ableton Liveschool course with Flume now! Inside The Almost Perfect World Of Kaytranada. As a high school dropout, Louis “Kaytranada” Celestin is likely fairing better than his former classmates. After his remix of Janet Jackson's "If" went viral via Soundcloud in 2012, Kaytranada embarked on touring schedule so onerous it has still prevented him from moving out of the Montreal home where his career was birthed. In 2016, the DJ/producer/artist brought in $1.5 million in touring revenue and snatched up $215,000 in royalties, according to his retinue. His debut album 99.9% was released under XL Recordings after a two-year delay, and he unveiled the truth about his sexual orientation to The Fader earlier this year. Free from inhibitions, the 24-year-old candidly opens up about his debut, business dealings and journey to completion. Payne: Your debut, 99.9%, was supposed to come out around the time you signed with XL Recordings in 2014, but didn’t come out until two years later. What was the hold up? Kaytranada: The reason it took so long is because of touring. It was supposed to be an EP at first, and I took my time to work on it whenever I had the time off to do it. [XL] was like it’s so good, it’d be cool if you dropped an album. But the tour kind of stopped me from creating. I was forcing myself to create music on tour while I was away, but I don’t know if the inspiration was ever really there. I [told myself] to make a beat a day, but that didn’t work it. It was making sad at one point, and it felt like it was never going to drop. But I stopped touring for six months and I finalized the album. Watch on FORBES: Ogden Payne: Do you think the delay helped the album? Kaytranada: I’m happy that people love the album. I wish I did more with it. I’m still not 100% satisfied with how it came out and how the release was. It looked like an independent release, like it wasn’t really mainstream, and I wanted my album to be on that level. Everything around the release happened so fast and so quickly that it didn’t happen how I wanted it to. But the people seem to like it. Payne: To me, the title 99.9% symbolizes your journey to reaching completion, but you aren’t quite there yet. What do you think is the .1% that’s missing? Kaytranada: [Laughs] I’m not even sure, man. I came up with the title because I’m a very indecisive person and while I was finalizing the album I had three different [versions]. I still wasn’t sure if it was really done and the 99.9% meaning was like it’s almost done, but not quite, I guess. It’s also a life thing, like all the personal stuff that’s happened. It’s what I felt around the time I was finalizing the album, there was so much stuff going on that I was feeling like I was only 99.9% myself, and that .1% is somewhere. It was really just a title that sounded cool, especially for an album and it was like why not [call it] that? Payne: You’re a DJ, producer and an artist. You gained notoriety as a DJ first, but you’ve made it very clear that you want to produce for other artists. Do you think that getting your foot in the door as a DJ hindered you from branching out as a producer? Kaytranada: The DJ thing is just a way for me to perform my songs in public. It put me on the map, and a lot of people discovered me because of my DJing and later found out that I made beats. A lot of fans discovered me from one of the three different ways, and it all comes together because they find out about the other two things I can do. Whether it’s from my beats or my remixes or me as the artist, it all comes back to me. Payne: How did the publishing deal with Rick Rubin come about? Kaytranada: I met Rick a few times and he’s a cool guy. He’s an inspiration to a lot of people’s career. When I met him at his studio in Malibu it was kind of like ‘oh s***, this is Rick Rubin. This is the guy I’ve seen in documentaries.’ He loved the album. I thought signing with him would help me get a lot more production placements, but it didn’t really happen. But it’s all love to Rick and he understands everything I’m doing. Shout outs to him. Payne: I recently talked to PartyNextDoor about the publishing company he’s forming. Would you ever consider that avenue? Kaytranada: Maybe. I’ve always wanted to push someone who’s not really known but has mad talent. I don’t know if I’m going to do a publishing company or a record label, but I’m interested in pushing artists in any sense. Payne: Your career took off while you were fairly young. How did the instant notoriety affect your life? Kaytranada: For the past few years, it was just like me trying to figure out what to do with life. Before all of this happened to me, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do besides music. When I first started touring, I was going to [high] school trying to get a diploma but I was over it. I couldn’t really concentrate on school because all these tour dates were coming. It really put me into a mind state of f*** it, just go ahead and do what you’ve wanted to do. My first tour was in Europe, and I guess it made me into a better person. It made me realize what an adult is in real life. Payne: What does it mean to be ‘an adult in real life’? Kaytranada: I don’t know, man. It’s funny, I think it’s just having so many responsibilities and decisions to make. [This industry] pushes you to [put forth] so much effort with your body. You to be out there, and have to talk all the time and think ‘what should I do next’. I guess all the big thoughts in your head make you an adult. I’m still clueless as to what an adult really is. Maybe it’s somebody with a lot more responsibility. Payne: What advice would you give your 18-year-old self? Kaytranada: I’d probably say don’t jump into a label deal just yet. Make sure that whoever is trying to give you the deal knows who you are as an artist. Just wait and make people want you more. I know a lot of people who jumped into a record label right away, dropped an album and then nothing happened for them. Build your fan base first, and follow your gut. Payne: What’s next for you? Kaytranada: I’m trying to work with artists and get as many producer placements as I can. I’ve always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist. Other than that, I have the second album I’m working on. Maybe it’ll be done in 2017, maybe not, we’ll see how it goes.