Chops has been making moves in hip-hop for over a decade. His old group, the Mountain Brothers, was signed to Ruffhouse back in the day, though the trio...
Do you have street cred? Yes, you say? Hmmm. C'mon, we know you're lyin', fool. But you're not a lost cause yet. Get the gritty truth from those who have...
In a quiet residential neighborhood in San Leandro, Calif., in a cottage at the back of Josh Gabriel's house, which he shares with his wife and two smiley...
Style: Nostalgic-sounding hip-hop Established: In 1996 in New York City by the High & Mighty (Mr. Eon and DJ Mighty Mi) Artists: Current: The High & Mighty,...
It's about time that Tom Holkenborg gets recognition for making music on his own terms. Holkenborg is best known as the man behind the remix of Elvis'...
At the beginning of February, I got a voicemail from a reader in Atlanta, and he was mad. Maybe disappointed is the better word: Why haven't you interviewed...
For six years, my company has been dedicated to giving straight advice on the music business and how artists and writers can protect their money and their...
Hundreds of dancing, drinking and smoking Madlib fans froze their feet, bowed their heads and uttered not a sound during a rare moment of silence at the...
Loop-based performance programs garner most of the attention for using software live. But if you look under Propellerhead Reason's hood and think outside...
WEBSITE OF THE MONTH If you haven't already done so, check out the videos on www.youtube.com. Do a search for anything (DJ Premier brings up 40 videos)...
Preparing recordings for specific delivery media is nothing new; first there were radio and 78 rpm records, then came reel-to-reel, cassette, CD, DVD...
FABFILTER TWIN SYNTHESIZER PLUG-IN Two years after releasing One, a unique-sounding single-oscillator synth with original cutoff-filter design, FabFilter's...
Last month, part one of this two-part series explored amateur sound-effects design for films through obscure and bizarre effects plug-ins. An amazing...
YAMAHA MO6 MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER Bent on bringing the sounds of its flagship Motif workstation synth to more musicians, Yamaha introduced the MO6...
After close to 20 years on the market, you'd think Akai would have run out of ideas on how to retool its MPC line of pad-based sampling sequencers. Not...
The digital realm has slowly enveloped the DJ world in the past five years, and the digital DJ is here to stay. However, turntablists who rely heavily...
Breaking away from modeling classic analog synthesizers for the first time, Arturia has tackled one of the Holy Grails in the emulation world. For as...
More musicians than ever take a jack-of-all-trades approach to producing their work, writing, arranging and recording entire projects themselves. Wearing...
MIDI is dead. Long-live MIDI. For at least a decade, advancements in audio-manipulation technology such as Sony Acid, Ableton Live and Celemony Melodyne...
Ursula 1000, aka New York's Alex Gimeno, is an anomaly. This multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented producer has managed to straddle the previously...
With the help of five friends, Caroline Lufkin produced a bubbling electronic winterland, rife with swirling synths and understated beats, resting sturdily...
Whoo Kid is having a blast. The gregarious mixtape DJ and G-Unit pugilist from Queens Village, N.Y. has turned his knack for making popular, though technically...
It's hard to distinguish between Majid Hasan and Sean Foote's voices on the phone. But the nuances are there: Face speaks in a rich baritone with a slight...
Electronic music has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the music industry. Despite a wealth of artists who are doing so many great and innovative things...
Hip-hop heads often fall into one of two camps: those who dig the ubiquitous sped-up vocal samples of chipmunk soul and those who despise them. Brooklyn...
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