Electronic Musician

Mar 14, 2012 12:00AM

Robert Glasper Experiment

Ask any young student of jazz for his or her current influences and the answer
will be short and sweet: Robert Glasper.

Feb 22, 2012 12:00AM

Prison Break: Blockhead Takes the Shackles Off of His Super-Restricted Sampling Process

Blockhead, a.k.a. Tony Simon, is a collage artist in the truest sense of the word. With 85 percent of his sound coming from samples, his is a different kind of talent: It takes a finely tuned ear to fit together dozens of sonic puzzle pieces that weren’t originally made for one another.

Tags : Hip-Hop

Oct 19, 2009 5:00PM

A Taste of Treasure Island

The weather at Treasure Island festival last Saturday (October 17) was almost shockingly warm. Last year, the small piece of land between San Francisco and the East Bay was sunny, but the wind and cold took over by the end

Tags : Hip-Hop

Jul 20, 2009 5:00PM

Q-Tip Shares Industry Rules & Life Stories For Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books will publish Industry Rules by Q-Tip, world-renowned artist, producer, DJ, and lead MC of hip-hop’s legendary A Tribe Called Quest. It was announced by Libby McGuire, publisher of Ballantine Books. Assistant Editor Porscha Burke acquired North American rights for the group from Jay Mandel at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.

Tags : Hip-Hop

Apr 1, 2009 9:30AM

Making Beats with Tanya Morgan

Towards the end of 2008, Von Pea of Brooklyn-based hip-hop group Tanya Morgan stopped by the EQ office with his mobile studio unit — a laptop computer, a USB turntable, and a Behringer UMX49 MIDI controller keyboard — to show us how he gets down on beats using Adobe Audition and FL Studio.

Tags : Hip-Hop

Jan 15, 2008 11:15AM