The beat makers…
What are the
components of a good
song? Some say a
singer’s voice. Others
prefer to qualify a
song by the lyrics.
Whilst most would
agree that it is
definitely the beat.
And Groove magazine
understands the
many fundamentals
of a great song so
with that we found
out from one of the
many talented ‘beat
makers’ in
Zimbabwe, local
music producer Evans
Dube about making
‘beats’.
Evans ‘Block 101’
Dube
Evans Dube (TG) is a music
producer of production
studio and label Block 101
which is based in Masasa
Park, Harare. His journey
as a producer began a
couple of years back when
he was in high school.
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honesty to get the girls. “Back
in the day we started off with
the basic stuff, working on
cakewalk software and
recording with budget
headphone computer
microphones. It was a friend of
mine- Matthew Grey who
introduced to all this chaos.”
Well it was good chaos in our
opinion.
“In retrospect, it’s funny how
long we’ve come and we
haven’t even started yet.”
“In retrospect, it’s funny how long we’ve
come and we haven’t even started yet. I
went to Speciss College for high school
and you can imagine we did the usual,
chase girls, party and all the other stuff
except study.”
He was being a typical young man in high
school although it seems that it was then
when his passion began. Evans says that
he started producing music or beats as it is
called, to just mess around-or in his
Evans and his friends started
producing a whole bunch of
potentials from Masasa Parkthe hood. They started working
with people like TNL, who
were a group of youngsters
from Masasa Park. TNL
consisted of three membersTinashe, Natasha and Lionel.
”That’s when we released our
first album as a group of
collaborating artists-Block 101
had not been born yet. A couple
of years later we started calling
ourselves Block 101.” The idea
behind block 101 according to
Evans was that they were a
group of producers and friends
who worked with potential
artists one on one, face to face
and interactively from the
beginning. Block 101 was all
about developing potential
talent in the hood and
developing it to become the