Breaking Down Kanye West's 'WAVES' with Hudson Mohawke | ADAM Audio

ADAM Audio sat down with legendary producer/DJ, Hudson Mohawke to break down the song "Waves" off of Kanye West's Life of Pablo record in his beautiful LA studio, outfitted with the ADAM Audio S3H midfield studio monitors. Simplicity is key & less is more according to Hudson and this beat is a perfect example of that mantra. Hudson Mohawke has produced beats for Pusha T, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Drake and so many more. We hope you find this beat breakdown interesting. Have questions for us at ADAM Audio? Leave them in the comments below!

Breaking Down Kanye West's "Waves" with Hudson Mohawke | ADAM Audio

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Cbat guy co produced blood on the leaves and waves, impressive to say the least

[rcea]

NAH I REMEMBER HEARING THE TITLE THEME FOR WATCH DOGS 2 AND THINKING IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE WAVES, OFC BOTH OF THEM WERE MADE BY HUDSON THAT'S SICK

[oliveoil]

Cbat blows everything out of the water

[holidaycomplex]

waves was my shit in 2016! tlop was what made me want to be a producer in the first place

[bluuzu]

I listened to waves recently and I thought « this sounds like a song from watch dogs 2 », and now I just realized that hudson produced both waves and watch dogs 2 soundtrack

[stigmabeats]

Damn this the same guy who made the Reddit sex song 😮

[TxEvader]

Just realized, since kanye changed the kicks and removed the snares from waves, he took the drums from this and turned it into the watch dogs theme, even using the same VST to chop up the same chorus sample.

[Dragoneer]

I love the fact that he uses FL Studio as his main DAW and Gross Beat. That’s what I use, so it feels more inspiring to me. Gross Beat is one of my favorite effects because it can automate the whole sampling process and you can create time shift and noise gate patterns really easily with it

[poindextertunes]

I remember listening to HudMo back in the day and then when Ye signed him I thought “yeah that makes perfect sense” and the music they put out is imo the gold standard of where a song should be sonically

[OSNINETYFIVE]

this video shows how underrated hudson is man. the experimentation he's done for his own material and the influence kanye knew he had just shows mans deserves his flowers

[migatronn]

Outstanding use of the synth in this song. Puts me on another planet.

[ADAMAudioBerlin]

Simplicity is key and this beat is a perfect example of that mantra. We hope you enjoy this video and to all our U.S. viewers, have a healthy and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday 👊

[katlego]

Hudson Mohawke made Butter in FL, that is all you need to know about the man, absolute LEGEND!

[alicemiriah]

I thought Kanye was the one who removed the pure moods sample. Now that I know it was this guy who did it, idc that it was removed anymore 😂 Now I’m going to do a deep dive on this guy. What a genius

[cclark]

Every time Cudi's voice comes on I start floating bro

[ifirekirby]

I feel like this video can be an inspiration to a lot of artists out there, you don't have to have the most skill technicality-wise, you just have to know what's catchy and have a good ear for that. It can create legendary songs like this one.

[thomasneuenschwander]

One of my favorite beats of all time. Thank you for creating this video.

[Altairassassin]

the song lives off the contrast between Chris Brown and Cudi imo

[GrandpaCaleb]

You could hear the similar pattern he ended up using for the watch dogs 2 theme in the making

[jwizdum]

Sick as hell to hear that other sample that they took out, that shit sounded crazy