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5 Things to Help You Make Beats Consistently and Grow Your Style and Sound
The key to making great beats is consistency. Consistency keeps you in a music-making zone and away from…
One Way to Avoid Over Producing: Minimal Programming Context
You're in the lab making a new beat, you're nodding your head, the beat is dope — almost. You just have…
Beat Breakdown: Main Source – “Looking At the Front Door”
Oliver Wang breaks down Main Source’s “Looking At the Front Door” and points out why Large Professor’s…
Check This: Carl Navy – “Can’t Hide Love” (Prod. by Laronisaloser)
Unearthing a quality sample is worth the pay off.
Flipping music from the '70s isn't an easy feat.…
Beat Breakdown: Prodigy – “Keep It Thoro” (Prod. by Alchemist)
A menacing apparatus, "Keep It Thoro" personifies how light and heavy textures co-mingle and combine,…
Check This: Najjee – “Letters of Incarceration” (Prod. by Judah Hex)
Najjee and Hex release their first album together.
Najjee, formerly of The Krookz collective, has…
Check This: King Shampz – “Murder Art” (Prod. by Azzan)
Philly brothers turn paint brushes to hammers with "Murder Art."
King Shampz and his brother Azzan, a…
The Art of Beatmaking is Bigger than Any Piece of Gear
Concepts, themes, and theories over gear, equipment, and plug-ins — It’s about the beatmaker and his…
Think Outside the Box for Custom Snare Sounds
Presets Get the Job Done, But Customized Sounds Help You Create Your Own Style and Sound
An exclusive…
Jump N Funk: DJ Rich Medina and His Celebration of Afrobeat
To speak with Rich Medina, a world renowned DJ, producer, and poet, is to receive a lesson in culture,…