Around the year 2000, Dutch hip-hop producer Nicolay discovered that making cross-continental collaborations was as easy as exchanging music online. After...
dope music is a force like none other. Just ask 13-month-old Chloe Yoshe. Her mother is missing in action, and she can think of nothing better than to...
The fourth annual A3C Hip Hop Festival, held at Atlanta's CW Midtown Music Complex on March 20-22, saw an otherwise nondescript commercial area come to...
America's music is just dying, right? asks Portishead's Geoff Barrow on the phone from Bristol. One third of this seaside town's greatest musical export...
I started my career in entertainment as a club promoter, promoting everything from dance-music events to hip-hop events, in everything from small clubs...
Back in 1973, Kool Herc ushered in the hip-hop era when he started spinning at parties in the community room of the apartment complex where he lived at...
For better or worse, the '80s revival is still alive and kicking. From Knight Rider remakes to the electro resurgence, the influential decade isn't going...
With a throwback sound and retro style more likened to the era of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing than that of today's typical rap group, it's safe to...
Standing among the cramped aisles of Uncle Sam's Music, a Miami Beach institution, DJ Craze looks momentarily stymied by the bins of 12-inches. he says,...
The job of a superproducer is never done. The world will always need hits, insists Jean-Claude Olivier, aka Poke, one-half of Track Masters production...
It's not often that Remix gets to wear 3-D glasses in the office, but considering the VJ/DJ/scratch multimedia mash-ups Mike Relm is known for, it wasn't...
To modern society, 21-year-old Rollie Pemberton may seem a little behind the times. The Edmonton, Alberta native doesn't have a driver's license, and...
Novelty has nothing to do with it. Even if being an Asian rapper didn't make him an anomaly in an industry dominated by young African-American men, Lyrics...
Style: Hip-hop Established: Chikara Kurahashi (Chikaramanga from Giant Panda) and Taro Aikawa created Tres in March 2004 in Los Angeles. Artists: Blu,...
When London's influential XFM radio DJ John Kennedy received an innocuous-looking disc in the mail in December 2006, he liked it so much, he immediately...
Calling out a guest who has arrived at Electric Lady to hear her latest release, New Amerykah, Erykah Badu insists, No one hears my music until they talk...
In 1997, I, Greg, registered AllHipHop.com to market and promote the artists on my label. When I saw the amount of people who were downloading our music...
In this age of superstar beatmakers, where the men behind the beats receive nearly as much shine as the MCs who rap over them, it's becoming harder to...
A sense of urgency should characterize Del the Funky Homosapien's Definitive Jux debut, 11th Hour, based on what he called the record. Or maybe a sloppy,...
Three decades ago, Jamaicans would gather hundreds deep in front of giant sound systems while two MCs rocked it over the same instrumental. When it was...
For the sake of all that's right in world, Kenna Zemedkun should be huge. But as author Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his best-selling book, Blink, he's just...
Read the Remix article about the Remix Hotel Los Angeles 2007 event at the SAE Institute of Technology on Sunset Boulevard. T-Pain, 9th Wonder, DJ Rap, the World Famous Beat Junkies, Carmen Rizzo and FreQ Nasty, as well as manufacturers M-Audio, Korg, Roland, Serato, JazzMutant, Apple and more were on hand for the action. ...
From the Technology Partner exhibits to the daily Beatport Pool Parties, RHMIA reached new heights—and attendance of more than 10,000 throughout the weekend! And stars such as Richie Hawtin, A-Trak, Francois K, Mark Farina, Talib Kweli and others all stopped in to be part of the action. See it all—including show reports, photos and exclusive Guitar Center Sessions at Remix Hotel videos—at remixhotel.com!