Phashara of Beatmonstas on the MPC 5000

by admin on June 13, 2010

Check out Phashara on the MPC 5000 throwing a beat together from his uncle’s jazz cd. His uncle [click here to check it out…]

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Don’t Buy This

by admin on May 29, 2010

544489Sometimes cheap gear can work out better than you think when it comes to recording music. Other times, you can get a piece of equipment for cheap and it is cheap period. The cheap gear I’m referring to is the Art Vla Pro II. If you want a hardware compressor then avoid this gear with the quickness. Its not worth the metal its its encased in. For one, it swallows up the low and high frequencies of a signal. Every sound I run thru it sounds worst than the original. Art need their [click here to check it out…]

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DEM DARE

March 9, 2010

Over the years there have been many hip hop crews but one in particular is hard to forget. The crew was called Dem Dare. A loose network of Graf artists, djs and dancers. They had a imagery and flavor unlike any crew

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Beatmonstas “Bomb Til We Hit Em” review @Platform8470

February 22, 2010

Platform8470.com, Belgium’s number 1 website for underground hiphop, reviews Beatmonstas’ “Bomb Til We Hit Em” album. The album yielded a rating of “Mighty Phat” [...]

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Showbiz playing beats off his MPC 2500

February 22, 2010

SHOWBIZ PLAYING BEATZ! W/ DJ PREMIER from A/V PRENEURS on Vimeo.

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DJ Spinna’s Studio

December 31, 2009

Behind The Scenes / DJ Spinna’s Studio Tour from Noisemaker Media on Vimeo.

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My First Drum Machine

December 28, 2009

Aight yall. Every now and then a cat will ask me what kind of equipment do I use? Over the years, I’ve ran thru many drum machines and synths. The first drum machine I got was really not a drum machine but a phrase sampler

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Christmas (Spoiler)

December 21, 2009

Right now everybody is shelling out dough trying to get gifts for each other. I could start telling everybody to buy Beatmonstas which I will but do most of you know where Christmas comes from? Some may not know that Christmas is not about Jesus or even Santa Claus. Its a Roman [...]

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Daily Plannet

December 20, 2009

The twins from Gary Indiana have been rapping for a long time and putting it down for G.I. I met them back in the early 90s at Columbia College in downtown Chicago. We all shared the same appreciation for hip hop music and the culture in general. Back in those days we [...]

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Gab Gotcha Signs to Wu-Tang Latino

December 3, 2009

Okay.. Some of my readers are probably wondering why I’m talking about Corona Queens native Gab Gotcha. Well, back in the day my homies (Blah Zae Blah)had a record deal with Island Records in 1994. I happen to hitch a ride with them to New York to hang out with my crew. [...]

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