Read the Remix cover story on Busta Rhymes. Busta Rhymes and producers Cool & Dre talk about the trials, tribulations and ’80s inspiration that brought about Rhymes’ latest album, Blessed....
It's probably fair to say that Jack Splash's musical vision is unstuck in time. He views the music he and his band Plantlife make as communications with...
What would make more sense than pairing up a horny Tone-Loc with a hornier Peaches to remix the classic Wild Thing? Or how about Tone with superperv Spank...
Some 25 years after he first made hip-hop history, Steve Stein, aka Steinski, still sounds like a kid in a candy store. It was fun, man, he says, looking...
It's forgivable that many people expect Montreal's electronic music festival, Mutek, to be cerebral-centric. But this year's ninth installment of the...
Sauntering confidently into a crowded Joe Allen restaurant on 46th Street in midtown Manhattan, The Roots' brain trust Ahmir Thompson, Tariq Black Thought...
Read the Remix Respect article on Kurtis Mantronik, aka Kurtis el Khaleel, founder and leader behind influential hip-hop/electro-funk band Mantronix. Many of Mantronix’s hits have been sampled by a number of current artists, including Beastie Boys, Beck, Chemical Brothers, Future Sound of London and Prodigy. Mantronik discusses his style and gear used to produce Mantronix’s hits. ...
Read the Remix cover story on N.E.R.D. N.E.R.D’s Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay, along with engineer Andrew Coleman, discuss the recording process for the band’s album, Seeing Sounds. ...
Read the Remix profile on Minneapolis hip-hop duo, Atmosphere. Producer Ant and MC Slug talk about working with session musicians for their album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold...
Read the Remix “Shop.Talk.” article on Ananda Project’s Chris Brann. Brann shops for jazz-fusion records and other oldies at Wax ’N Facts in Atlanta and discusses how some of the jazz classics are informing electro music today. ...
Read the Remix profile on Zion-I producer and co-founder, Amplive. The producer discusses his Radiohead remix album, Rainydayz Remixes, his electronic project, Electrowonderland and the upcoming Zion-I album, The Takeover. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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