Producer The Arcitype takes viewers inside of his recording studio to show how he makes a recording from scratch. Besides the live bass and keyboard work, it’s nice to see the recording and use actual authentic hand claps.
Producer Boola (Beanie Sigel, Jim Jones, Lost Boyz, CamRon, NE-YO) goes to work in his home studio to create the musical foundation for a Pusha T / Funkmaster Flex freestyle.
Disko Dave returns with another beat making video. This this time the DJ/producer chops and reworks a Lou Bond sample to create an instrumental track entitled “The Night Mission”.
Redefinition returns with more footage from Grap Luva’s visit visit Damu The Fudgemunk’s home studio. More beats played straight out of his EMU SP1200 and more stories behind their creation.
Happy Halloween! Crate Kings reader Matty Melks went to work and created Night of The Undead Funk, a Halloween inspired remix of the classic horror film Night of The Living Dead. The spooky movie remix/production video features multiple instruments, costumes, and flesh eating zombies.
Producer Hezekiah creates an instrumental a track using a sample of gospel artist Albertina Walker. In the process he utilizes NI Kontakt before layering live drums, bass, and vocal elements. Hezekiah’s latest release entitled Conscious Porn is now available from Soulspazm Records. I take the track as far as I can take it, then I … Read more
Armed with his E-mu SP1200, Grap Luva visits the studio Damu The Fudgemunk to run through a selection of beats from his collection of floppies. Along the way Grap Luva explains some of his musical influences and philosophy behind making beats. Later on Grap tells the story of creating the beat for “Half Man, Half … Read more
Producer Hypoetical takes a camera into his home studio to offer a glimpse into his process for making music. Beginning with powering on his Akai MPC2500 equipped with JJ OS2 and proceeding to sample selection, editing, EQ adjustment, and more, the producer shows off respectable home studio while laying down a quick guitar driven beat. … Read more
Ryan Leslie returns with another one of his now signature in-studio song reconstruction videos. In this installment he an Jasmine Villegas lay down the instrumental and hook for the single “Hello”.
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.