Browsing the endless shelves of tapes, vintage vinyl, musical scores, session notes and photos archived in the basement of Teo Macero's Long Island home,...
There's this big misconception that I started out as a spoken-word artist and then decided to rap, Sage Francis says with a rueful chuckle, his mood darkening...
Without a good dose of jet lag, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn would have turned out to be quite a different album. When Bianca and Sierra...
The first thing you'll notice about the new Savath & Savalas album is the absence of Eva Puyuelo, whose aching vocals floated over the modernized Catalonian...
For MC/producer Pharoahe Monch, being kept out of the studio for nearly seven years has been nothing less than stifling. After scoring the Godzilla-sampled...
Many reggae fans can close their eyes and remember some of their favorite and freshest irie riddims of the past decade and, chances are, five-time Grammy...
You know how digging goesI could be here until, like, tomorrow, says recent Portland, Ore., export Jumbo the Garbageman. It's a warm late-winter day,...
I was producing and writing part-time when I was in the U.S. Army. I decided after four years that it was time to go for it all the way. I moved to Atlanta...
It's good to be the king especially if you're Tim Mosley. For well over a decade now, the 36-year-old producer has spun his quirkily deconstructed beats...
There was no end of good music to be had at SXSW 2007 (March 12-16) in Austin, Texas. And lovers of electro rock, IDM, techno, bastard pop and turntablism...
Few things complement Blue Six's Aquarian Angel better than low lighting, candles and afterdinner brandy. But with a stylish buffet of soulful vocals,...
An acknowledged product of his environment, Detroit's Black Milk makes no bones about carrying on the Motor City hip-hop sound. Since officially breaking...
Read the Remix article on Ultramagnetic MC’s reunion album, The Best Kept Secret. Kool Keith and Ced Gee talk about recording their first album as a group in 14 years....
Amtrak's Metroliner? Never mind that. These days, the ultimate Philly-to-New York connection is Cosmo Baker that is, when he's doing his DJ thing on the...
Wu-Tang Clan's master producer The RZA built a hip-hop empire using Kung-Fu Theater dialog and mysterious, tension-filled music to create an aura of mythical legend around his crew of MCs. So no doubt he was the perfect man to score Spike TV's hip-hop anime show Afro Samurai....
To me, pop music can be anything from Nick Drake to the Gap Band to Led Zeppelin, says a fully amped RJD2, holding forth on the range of inspiration behind...
Read the Remix story on Mark Mak and Dego of 4hero. The soul/R&B/electronic duo discuss capturing and editing the important characteristics of miked instruments and voices....
Read the Remix article on Prince’s DJ, Rashida. Rashida goes record shopping at Zia Record Exchange in Las Vegas, looking for both classics and new albums....
Since early 2005, the Chicago hip-hop community has gathered once a month in West Town to witness the Dance to the Drummer's DB beat battle a competition...
Not exactly the East Coast and not necessarily pledging allegiance to the Dirty South either, Virginia is in somewhat of a peculiar predicament. But having...
Trinidad-born Canadian k-os is as dedicated to preserving hip-hop as he is revolutionizing it. Within his genre-hopping productions, you'll often hear...
Brooklyn, fear, drug addiction, transition, hope, sex and flying. This fragmented sentence (found on an artist blog created to document the final stages...
The concept of remixing hit a mainstream high (and an underground low) back in 2002 when P. Diddy had the chutzpah to release a remix album titled, We...
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TAPES 'N' TAPES
PROPHET OF RAGE
COCOROSIE
SAVATH & SAVALAS
PHAROAHE MONCH
STEPHEN MARLEY
LIVESAVAS' JUMBO THE GARBAGEMAN
CHA-CHING!
Live Wire
MESSING WITH TEXAS
BLUE SIX
BLACK MILK
PUSH TO SHOVE
TURBULENT WATERS
COSMO BAKER
SHAOLIN FUNK
ELASTIC FANTASTIC
4HERO
DJ RASHIDA
BATTLE FOR THE BELT
Danja
K-OS
KING OF PAIN
ALL (RE)MIXED UP
