JUL/AUG 2006
Features
DETROIT Producers
After a much-maligned couple of months, Detroit’s hip-hop scene is in desperate need of some good ol’ love. D-12’s Denaun Porter, Slum Village’s T3, and SickNotes are waving Motown’s flag non-stop. -Josephine Basch
DJ Drama & T.i.
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Hank Shocklee
GOOD VIBRATIONS
Frequencies are funny: there are frequencies that I can play to you that will make you sick, there are frequencies that I can play to you that will make you feel a level of comfort, there are frequencies that I can play to you that will make you feel a level of stress. It’s […]
DJ SCRATCH
Outtakes
Engineer Ryan West
Engineer Ryan West got called into Just Blaze’s kitchen to help refry a hard to clear sample.
ANALOG ERA
Chopping Block
Story by the underdog
The late ’70s were a progressive moment in the timeline of music technology. Exploration into the creation of easy-to-use, portable keyboard synthesizers was full tilt. Effect boxes for guitars were becoming commonplace. The development of self–contained drum machines was the logical next step coming out of the Hammond organ, band-in-a-box phenomenon. […]
Rewind
NOW Busta Rhymes
“New York Shit”2006
THEN Diamond D
“I Went For Mine”1991
link Soul Sensation Orchestra
“Faded Lady (Shine Your Light)”
LAST CALL
Karriem Riggins tells us how he finished J Dilla’s The Shining.
Rumblefish
Make music licensing as easy as Superhead.
Nicolay
The foreign exchange “raw life”
KHAO
T.I. “WHY YOU WANNA”
Sound Clash
BEAT Klub Battle at Fight Klub Studios, NYC.
The Breaks
Goldmine
Contents: Sept/Oct 2007
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Wyclef Jean: Till Death Do Us Part
When it comes to global pop, Wyclef Jean is still killin’ ’em. but with a resurrected interest in rap, can this former Fugee bring his spark back to hip-hop?
DJ Toomp: The Last Laugh
From pumping bass to laying the trap, veteran producer DJ Toomp has ushered Atlanta hip-hop through the ages. Ha-ha! You can’t tell him nothin’.
Warning: Saigon
Scratch takes you inside Saigon’s long-delayed Atlantic debut The Greatest Story Never Told
Front Lines: Phunk Dawg
Meet the producer behind Hurricane Chris’ “A Bay Bay”
In Control: Erick Sermon & Keith Murray
Come inside the EPMD producer’s studio as he makes a beat for Keith Murray from scratch.
Contents: JULY/AUGUST 2007
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DJ Khaled: Victory
He wasn’t born or raised in the county of Dade, but DJ Khaled has become the Miami movement’s loudest supporter.
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