Larry Heard truly put the “deep” into house music. Responsible for dancefloor classics such as Mr. Fingers’ seminal “Can You Feel It” and Robert Owens’ “Bring Down The Walls,” his work sits at the ...

Headquartered in the Culver City section of Los Angeles, Damon Riddick has helmed a renaissance of boogie, modern soul and electro-funk – from his storied Monday-night Funkmosphere parties to his ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto came to worldwide fame as a member of influential Japanese synth-pop outfit Yellow Magic Orchestra. Making abundant use of new synthesizers, samplers and recording technology, they ...

The first thing I chopped was a [jazz fusion group] Return To Forever jam. Was there an old Roland sampler, the MS something? Whatever. It was big, it was grey, it had a red button on it. I chopped up ...

In this lecture from the 2006 Red Bull Music Academy, former Jurassic 5 DJ Cut Chemist talks about his friendship with rapper Hymnal and their memories of the early Los Angeles rap scene. From ...

As part of the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour 2011, five hip-hop legends – each representing one of the five boroughs of New York, the birthplace of hip-hop – took the couch over five days, with ...

Musician and producer Wally Badarou may not be a household name, but his fingers have jammed the synth melodies that grace some of the most memorable and irresistible songs in modern music. From Fela ...

They don’t come much more Motor City than Black Milk. Just growing up in Detroit is a lesson in beat-making and this man took to producing like kids take to a cookie jar, forging instantly ...

Clare Fischer may not be a household name, but to the cognoscenti it rings loud and true. He began his career in LA in the late ’50s as a keyboardist, composer, bandleader and arranger and has worked ...

Brian Reitzell is a musician, composer, producer and music supervisor best known for his contributions to several films by Sofia Coppola, including The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation ...

MS-1, Electribe, Triton, Wavestation, Kaoss Pad: Korg has put an indelible stamp on the synthesizer game since 1962, when the company was founded in Tokyo by a nightclub owner and an accordion player ...

Taiwo and Kehinde Hassan, AKA Christian Rich, have created some of the most progressive rap productions of the ’10s. Moreover, the Chicago-born twins haven’t become an assembly-line for similar ...