Future Music Magazine – Pete Rock’s Akai MPC 2000XL
Pete Rock shows the exactly how a sample should be chopped and manipulated. Watch and learn. Big shout to Void from the Crate Kings forums.
Kanye West – ASR 10 & MPC 2000XL – The Making of Through The Wire
Here’s an interesting video of Kanye rocking both the MPC 2000 and ASR-10. Pay attention to how both pieces of equipment are used together.
MPC 60 String Chopping Video
A dope little beat making video of the classic MPC 60 with some pre-chopped strings.
Tales of Beats Gone Lost
The great thing about running a site about hip hop samples, breaks and production is amount of exposure that comes to the all of those who decide to participate. The bad thing is when so much time is spent promoting, programming and writing that so much time is lost on production, dust collects on equipment, … Read more
Kanye West Making A Beat On The MPC 2000 & ASR 10
It was a very sad weekend. After coming up with the idea to have a rare beat making video blowout, I came to realized that in order to make room on my external hardrive, I deleted virtually all of my beat production and beat making videos. Yeah, I know it’s a damn shame to even … Read more
Kev Brown Making Beats On The MPC
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 it up a notch by chopping the hell out a string set. For further Kev Brown heat such as Brownies and his Beat … Read more