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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,…
What The Music Taught Me: John Klemmer – “Free Soul” and Jazz Fusion
John Klemmer’s “Free Soul” was one of the very first records I ever hunted down and bought at a record…
Gensu Dean: Production Master, Music Traveler, and Perennial Record Borrower
With two fresh new album projects on the market — a compilation called RAW and Whole Food with Denmark…
Fair Use Sampling Project: Sa’id – “Break Light Off”
Fair use, a doctrine codified in U.S. copyright law, acknowledges that there are some forms of borrowing…
John King and the Story of Chung King Studios
Pioneering Recording Studio and Its Owner Helped Give Hip Hop/Rap Music New Dimension
Chung King…
What The Music Taught Me: Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Taught Me How To Shuffle
Listening To One Of Jazz's Most Prolific Groups, I Learned How To Add Natural Shuffle To My Beats
The…
AmirSaysNothing: Blue Collar Priest, Rapper for the People
Off the heels of a solid debut EP in Medium Rare (2015), AmirSaysNothing dropped his first full-length…
True Master: One of the Sharpest Masters of the Art of Beatmaking
True Master is a sharp dude. The type that calculates three moves ahead. The type that could have…
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,…