As an artist and producer, LeRoyce has always chosen to put the quality of his music above anything else. After co-producing “Is /this Cigarett,” the single from Mick Jenkins’ fourth studio album ...

Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...

When it comes to electronic music, the beat is everything. It’s the style and sound of a track’s drum groove that defines what genre it fits into. A track might, for example, have all the sonic ...

Last week, we dug deep into the history of breakbeats in music production, looking at how artists and producers in the early days of hip-hop and jungle transformed sampled breaks from vinyl records ...