Peel back the production layers used to make hip-hop and drum & bass and you'll find a common strand of DNA: samples. When jungle emerged in early 1990s England, the music borrowed from dub and ...
One of the latest innovations in dance music is freeform—a style that gets headbangers throwing down on the dancefloor. The genre, which saw early support from Liquid Stranger's WAKAAN label, is best ...
You might not know it, but you’ve heard a TR-808. Released in 1980 by Japan’s Roland Corporation, the rudimentary drum machine supplied the bombastic beats of early hip-hop, the futuristic sounds of ...
When Dom Flemons was in the studio making his album Prospect Hill, the engineer made a casual comment that pushed the material in an unexpected direction. “Maybe you should sell some of those beats to ...
The TR-808 is the Fender Stratocaster of electronic music. The programmable drum machine was heavily used by pioneers like Afrika Bambaataa, the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and Derrick May, and its ...
You might not know it, but you've heard a TR-808. Released in 1980 by Japan's Roland Corporation, the rudimentary drum machine supplied the bombastic beats of early hip-hop, the futuristic sounds of ...