"I would hope they’d be inspired to spend more time with the things they truly loved."
I would hope they empathized with artists more, see them as real people who give us extraordinary gifts," he adds. I would hope they come to respect hip-hop as an art form. "I would hope people leave Dissect with a greater appreciation of art. And despite the show's analytical, NPR-style tone, Chuchna's love and appreciation for the music he's dissecting shines through each episode. More than I ever expected to be honest."Īfter finishing with his full-time job each day, he works on the podcast in his garage after his wife and daughter have gone to bed. "The textures, the harmonies, the way instruments interact with one another-he’s manipulating these things on a micro-level with a lot of thought and consideration. "The way a masterful painter like Monet would study light and color is the same way Kanye studies and manipulates sound," he continues.
#KANYE WEST DARK FANTASY CHORD PROGRESSION SERIES#
Taking advantage of a background in classical music composition and an incredible eye for detail, Chuchna sets the stage for each album he dissects by running through its cultural significance and context before analyzing every last lyric, chord progression, and sample.Īfter kicking off the series with a close look at Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly in season one, Chuchna has turned his focus to Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy for the follow-up. A one-man operation, Chuchna spends over 20 hours putting together each episode and hundreds of hours over the course of a season. When new albums come out, it's easy to get caught up in a rush to tweet hot takes and dub the music trash or classic before moving on to the next thing.Ĭole Chuchna is doing exactly the opposite of this with his Dissect series-a serialized podcast that dedicates each season to diving deep and breaking down every detail of a single album, one song at a time. In 2017, we consume music at an insane pace.