Producers Alchemist & Evidence go head to head in a laptop original sample battle on the Fresh Rhymes and Videotape tour bus. I personally have to declare Alchemist the automatic winner after Evidence set it off with a widely known Norah Jones joint. Who would you crown king? Respect to Herfection
Apparently Jermaine Dupri’s statements about the DJ being dead touched on a nerve with a few people. DJ Greg Street comes at JD stating that the "The DJ is not dead. You gotta stop making all this wack music. You gotta stop putting your name on all these wack records." Greg Street even goes so … Read more
DJ Kon (On Track – Kon & Amir) hooks us up with footage and audio from an event featuring legendary drummer Bernard Purdie. Presented by Redbull Music Academy and recorded live at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge, MA, Perdie and Kon bless us with a drummer/DJ set over 50 minutes in length! Download the … Read more
Dork Magazine presents an interview with 88 Keys as he tells of breaking into the music business, inspiring producers, getting paid $700 for his first project, and becoming involved with the Black Star album. He also goes on to discuss his first production setup (Akai S950 w/ keyboard), discovering the Akai MPC 3000 while interning … Read more
Anyone else have a old NES (or clone) sitting in the closet? If so, ElectroKraft has created the Super Synth Sounds cartridge which turns your 8 bit NES video game console into a drum machine with some crazy synth sounds. The cartridge can be added to your production arsenal for only $49 over at the … Read more
On Friday, June 27th to Sunday, June 29th The Core DJ’s will host the Texas Urban Music Summit in Dallas, Texas with panelists including: Tony Neal (CEO Core DJ’s), Wendy Day (Rap Coalition), Play-N-Skillz (Producers), Butch Hartfield (Def Jam Executive), Clinton Sparks, and Chamillionaire. From The Website: "The Texas Urban Music Summit, (Texas U.M.S.) an … Read more
Check The Credits DVD interviews Chris Styles as he takes a few moments to discuss how he began producing, starting his company Dangerous LLC, and the responsibilities of a record producer. Styles also goes on to openly talk about rumors about past production controversies.
More controversy in Jermaine Dupri’s 4th installment of The State of The Music Business. In this segment JD asks why do people want to get into the music business and goes on to comment that the music industry is the only place where people outside of the business concern themselves with music sales stats. He … Read more
Our favorite year end wrap up provider, Skillz breaks down the making of his first release From Where???. He goes into untold stories about the specifics that went into production, samples, and J Dilla beat tapes (even confesses to passing up the beat to Pharycyde’s "Runnin"). Some of the highlights include Skillz touching upon the … Read more
A little older footage with Mark Ronson in the studio laying down strings for his album Version. It’s interesting to hear his views about about having a grand sound and coming from a background of Hip-Hop and sampling.