David Soldier’s American Most Unwanted Song is a horribly good piece of work that brings together everything that Americans hate musically, and combines them into one long song, frequently to hysterical effect.
By using market research with hundreds of people, Soldier determined that:
The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud [...]

 

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A new study finds that references to illegal drug use in rap music jumped sixfold in the two decades since 1979, the year Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” introduced rap to a mainstream audience
“This trajectory in rap music raises a number of red flags,” said Herd, University of California’s Denise Herd. “Rap music is especially [...]

NAMM demo vet James Bernard was showing off the latest Cortex dj gear when a man came up and started freestyling the Cortex rap.
If you can identify the rapper - let me know in the comments!

Grandmaster Flash shares his take on the state of DJ science at the Native Instruments booth at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show.
Flash was fighting some flaky gear that NI hadn’t troubleshooted very well, but it was still great to see him in action.

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We had a chance to see Grandmaster Flash do his thing at the Winter NAMM Show. He was demonstrating his science at the Native Instruments booth. We’ll have some video of his performance after it’s [...]

Remix Toolkit has released West Coast Vol.1, a collection of radio-ready drum samples designed for remixers, DJs, and producers, covering the sound of today’s Hip Hop & RnB.
Released in 16 bit/44.1 stereo wav format, the West Coast V.1 Drum Sample Library is compatible with all major software and hardware samplers including Kontakt, Halion, EXS24, [...]

Chris has been working on his animatronic programming and guess what - the Chuck-E-Cheese robots now do gangsta rap.
Check out their cover of Ms. New Booty:

Here’s a little background on what goes into these stupidtacular animatronic shows:

March 10: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re highlighting great music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Slave is a great track from modern soul artist Nadir’s Distorted Soul 2.0 cd. If you’re not familiar with Nadir, think Lenny Kravitz with better lyrics.
“You were mother-something ruthless baby,
A jack-the-ripper in high-healed shoes
You [...]

 

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