When he’s not manning the kit behind groups like Lettuce and Break Science, beloved drummer Adam Deitch is still very much immersed in creating music. After the success of Lettuce’s recently-released Crush, Deitch turned his attention to production, working on neck-breaking hip-hop instrumentals. The result is I Get A Rush, the newest work from Deitch on Gramatik’s Lowtemp label.

I Get A Rush is a powerful seven track release, showcasing Deitch’s innate penchant for music production. He’s produced music for hip hop greats like 50-Cent, Redman, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, MF Doom, J-Live, Jurassic 5, Breeze Evahflowin, and Immortal Technique, but we’re even more excited for Deitch to produce his own beats!

Fortunately, we’re honored to offer up a full length stream of Deitch’s new I Get A Rush, complete with a track-by-track breakdown detailing the origin of each groove. Check it out!

1) Slippin’ Into Science: Years ago I found a version of War’s “Slipping into Darkness” by an unknown funk group from the 70s (while doing my nightly YouTube binges for old rare funk and soul). It had a totally different groove than the OG version and that version became one of Lettuce’s best cover songs. Fast forward a few years, I got to sampling the Lettuce version and reshaped the groove once again to a more J Dilla inspired feel with some live drums I recorded during the Pretty Lights ACMOTS sessions. I had a vocal stem from legend, Chaka Khan, from a session she did with Soulive (thanks Kraz) that fit perfectly in a haunting soulful way, as well as a brief Redman sample that I had from BrkSci’s “Brain Reaction.” I added some analog synthetic bass and and fell in love with this recipe.

2) Obey the Crowd: OTC began with some beautifully recorded sounds by acclaimed producer Eliot Lipp who asked me to remix his song. It morphed into its own animal after I added some simple swagged out drums and a mean bass line. Rakim will always be my favorite MC, so his message to “Obey the Crowd” was meaningful to me because my life is based off of making crowds move and serving them fresh music.

3) Boom and Pound: This one is a guitar sample with a live drum break of mine and the great Chuck D of Public Enemy, as I just happened to have a
few of his a cappellas on my computer. It’s a return to the “Funkier” sound of Hip Hop.

4) Interlude: This was made probably in the early 2000s which contains a guitar sample used by so many different producers, but I feel I got a certain DJ Premier type “pocket” on it with the drums so I had to put it out there.

5) I Get a Rush: I Get a Rush is about the rush we get from good music. That’s a Method Man vocal sample. The beat was created with my homie Ryan Zoidis, sax player in Lettuce. He brought his analog effects rig into my tight little studio in Brooklyn and laced it up!

6) Represent the Gritty: This has a bit of the classical song Claire De Lune, which I sampled an eerie chord from a random dude on YouTube. The drums were live from my AD release, “Break Collection.” Brooklyn is a gritty place with gritty people, struggling to survive, and I will always cherish and represent for my 15 years spent as a Brooklyn resident.

7) Joe Mode: This track is a sample flip of “Mode for Joe” by jazz sax legend, Joe Henderson. Joe’s albums are some of the coolest records ever made. The sound feels like a sunny day that has a lot of hope involved. I wanted to basically keep as much of the form of the original song as possible to get the emotions to develop.

Adam Deitch is keeping it fresh throughout the fall, as he’s currently on tour with Lettuce. He’ll also be performing several sets at Brooklyn Comes Alive, a multi-venue music festival throughout Brooklyn on October 22nd. Deitch will be playing alongside John Medeski and Skerik for a set of DRKWAV, with members of Lettuce, Break Science, Nth Power, and more as a tribute to J Dilla, AND with Aron Magner, Marc Brownstein and Borahm Lee for the debut of the [Br]eaking [Bi]scuits collaboration. You can find all the info you need, right here.

Lettuce’s upcoming tour dates and locations can be seen below.

Sounds Like A Party Tour

9.28 – Charlotte, NC
9.29 – Birmingham, AL
9.30 – New Orleans, LA
10.1 – New Orleans, LA
10.4 – Memphis, TN
10.5 – Knoxville, TN
10.6 – Columbia, SC
10.7 – Corolla, NC
10.8 – Wilmington, NC
10.11 – Lafayette, IN
10.12 – Urbana, IL
10.13 – St. Louis, MO
10.14 – Kansas City, MO
10.15 – Denver, CO
10.26 – Baltimore, MD
10.27 – Charlottesville, VA
10.28 – Asheville, NC
10.29 – Live Oak, FL
11.2 – San Antonio, TX
11.3 – Houston, TX
11.4 – Dallas, TX
11.5 – Austin, TX
11.6 – Tulsa, OK
11.9 – Louisville, KY
11.11 – New York, NY
11.12 – New York, NY
11.26 – San Francisco, CA
12.1 – Pantanal, Dominican Republic
12.30 – Portland, ME
12.31 – Boston, MA