Crate Digging

103 posts
  1. CK·0072J Dilla Interview: Beats, MC'ing, & Style01.17.2007 · I was just bumping around and wasting a little time when I ran across this interview where J Dilla discusses the use of beats and ID tags. Of course there are
  2. CK·0071Kanye West Making A Beat On The MPC 2000 & ASR 1001.17.2007 · Kanye West making a beat on the Akai MPC 2000 and Ensoniq ASR-10, talking through his production philosophy and technique.
  3. CK·0068More Gems and Treats For The Kiddies...01.06.2007 · After much thought, I've decided to take a bit of a break from giving my isolated commentary about what music should sound like in an ideal world and figured
  4. CK·0066Happy New Year Sample Drop!01.01.2007 · Happy New Year Everyone!  2006 has definitely been an interesting and exciting year all around, especially musically.  We saw the return of Jay Z,
  5. CK·0065Smack DVD Beat Making Videos - D.R. Period, Arsonist of Heatmakerz, Just Blaze,12.31.2006 · I went ahead and gathered every Smack DVD beat making video that I could find. It just so happens that I hold a lot of respect for D.R. Period and it's pretty
  6. CK·0064Crate Digging and Sampling Ethics... Who Heard of Such A Thing???12.29.2006 · They let me out of my gig a little early today so I took the opportunity to do a little crate digging on my way home from work. It's tough when you walk into
  7. CK·0063Kev Brown Making Beats On The MPC12.23.2006 · I really like this video of Kev Brown making a beat on his trusty MPC 2000XL. This is a great video because he goes farther than just looping a beat and takes
  8. CK·0062Who Stole My MPC Sucka???... How's That???12.23.2006 · Life is good… life is grand… My apologies for the lack of updates lately, but I’ve been doing my best to climb the corporate ladder and
  9. CK·0061Unique Places to Dig For Records12.12.2006 · I’m constantly racking my brain through my head in an attempt to more fresh and creative ways to find records and today on the rush hour drive home I
  10. CK·0059Mobb Deep - The Infamous Samples & Breaks Case Study11.26.2006 · A case study of the samples and breaks behind Mobb Deep's The Infamous (1995): the records Havoc flipped and how the album's dark sound was built.