DJ Stress of 90.7 WTCC FM interviews producer D.R. Period to discuss past and future projects with such artists as M.O.P., C & C Music Factory, Force MD’s, and Positive K along with the key people that influenced his career. DR Period also discusses the importance of versatility, motivation, work ethic, and publishing You need … Read more
Sunday October 17th Battle For World Supremacy World Team Battle Event features DJ Shiftee, a beatbox battle, and a performance by Yahrah Bravo. Monday October 18th DJ Championship World Final Event features Grand Wizzard Theordore (inventor of the scratch), DJ Shiftee, DJ Woody, and Eklips. October 18th & 19th DMC World DJ Championships KOKO London … Read more
Ski Beatz serves a a tutorial of how to make NI Maschine read MP3’s by utilizing Ableton Live 8 while showing off his customized “Artist Series” model, which features a white finish complemented with woodgrain.
The latest video finds producer/DJ/drummer Damu The Fudgemunk sitting in front of a drum set at NYC’s Funkadelic Studios and going deep into the topic of drums. While giving a taste of his self described amateurish drumming, Damu talks about his favorite live drummers, drum programmers, drum Breaks, and breaks down the signature sounds of … Read more
Distortion 2 Static interviews Black Milk as the producer/MC briefly talks about production, musical experimentation and his use of the Akai MPC with live musicians on his latest project Album of The Year.
David “Fingers” Haynes steps further away from his Alesis HR-16B and Korg Nanopad to pick up the NI Maschine and give another demonstration of his finger drumming mastery. Stay on the lookout as the drummer promises a breakdown of his sound placement in an upcoming video series. An explanation for sound placement will be in … Read more
Elevator Hip-Hop drops a compilation/all-star highlight film of the beatsmiths who performed during last producer showcase to take place at Fat Beats L.A. Among the producers to take the stage and flex their skills were Exile, Rhettmatic, House Shoes, J-Thrill, Science, Jon Wayne, Aspect 1, Pudge, Ras G, Dibiase, and Shafiq Husayn.
Mike Posner goes in-studio with producer Hi-Tek to preview an instrumental from his upcoming album while showing off something that every producer wishes he had, a stack of disks containing Hi-Teks’ drums. [via illRoots]
Seattle Red Bull Big Tune winner Rising Son and runner up Trox talk about the prior night’s event and each other sound, style, and strengths. Producer Rising Son even reveals how he rehearses his animated routine at home before events.
Producer Marcus D, KD Cutz, Trox, Dave Notti, Mell, Illoquint, Trox, Marcus D, Nphared, Blaise, Rising Son, and Brainstorm brought it at the I think the way to win over the crowd, your beats have to be busy. You can’t let the crowd get bored or you’ll lose ’em real quick.