![]() ![]() His cinematic beats for ASAP Rocky, Soulja Boy and Lil B have made those artists a force to be reckoned with. ![]() The past twenty years has seen hip-hop production straying from MPCs and Chic 12 inches, and instead turning to synthesizers and electronic music.įew producers have been able to balance electronic music and hip-hop as well as New Jersey native Mike Volpe, aka Clams Casino. While there are still producers who can flip a sample and make it sound interesting and vibrant, more and more beats based on old funk breaks sound nostalgic or old-fashioned. ![]() It’s too expensive to sample even moderately well-known stuff, and most of those songs have been mined to death already. Right about the time sampling hit its creative peak with “Paul’s Boutique” and “It Takes A Nation of Millions,” a series of lawsuits served put stifling constraints on the practice of borrowing seconds of another artist’s music. As hip-hop progressed the technology around sampling breaks got more sophisticated, culminating in the complicated sound collages of the Bomb Squad and the Dust Brothers. DJ Kool Herc discovered the magic of repeating the funkiest instrumental breakdowns from popular rock, soul, and disco albums of the day, turning five seconds of The Incredible Bongo Band’s “Apache” into a irresistible sonic background that gave space for b-boys to breakdance and MCs to spit rhymes. ![]()
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