Hip Hop Til Infinityis celebrating 50 years of creativity and artistry at its expansive exhibit open now at 6400 Sunset Blvd. So to get you prepped for the expansive collection of artifacts, photography, and memorabilia, let’s take a look at a quick history of Hip Hop, from Jamaica to th...
A Brief History of DJs Being Kicked Off the Decks With the different pitfalls and problems that DJs face, one of the biggest problems a DJ has to face is being told to stop DJing. Over the years, we'v Image via Complex Original With the different pitfalls and problems that DJs face, o...
As we stressed in the introduction to this imperfect history, it would be impossible to truly cover every pioneer of the the pre-digital, pre-software era. Essentially, every hip-hop producer who has used a sampler, every techno artist who has gradually manipulated and automated a sound, and...
For much of the initial half of hip-hop’s first three decades,Detroitwas a missing player on the national stage. Despite being perhaps the most important city in the musical history of the 20th Century, there were remarkably few rappers that managed to break free of municipal limits until t...
The Unexpectedand Jake Steed recording freestyles for the opening titles of hisFreaks, Whoes & Flowsseries of XXX videos (latercompiled on this CD), before doing a skit on Dr. Dre’sThe Chronic 2001album, while theDeep PornCD combined hip-hop and dance producers withsome of their favourite...
A Brief History of Virtual Pop Stars It’s been a busy year for Hatsune Miku, the world’s most famous holographic pop star. She’s achieved a lot, but her success wasn’t a sudden development. Let's trace the history of Asia's virtual pop stars. By Patrick St. MichelJuly 15, 2016...
Salsa can be a blanket term to describe the dance music that comes out of Latin America and the Caribbean, but more precisely, salsa music is a Cuban-influenced genre created in New York City in the 1960s.
A Brief History of J-Pop The history of J-pop begins in the early years of the Showa era (the 1920s to 1980s) with ryūkōka, a form of popular music influenced by Western jazz and blues. Beginnings. Ryukoka was supplanted by enka, a sort of emotional balladry, and kayōkyoku, a...
This makes danceability less of an emphasis in IDM music production. What is IDM? IDM is a subgenre of electronic music. IDM combines elements of techno, electronic dance music, ambient, acid house, Chicago house, and breakbeat genres. IDM can therefore be seen as a broader umbrella term for...
Drake's Basketball Career: A Brief History College Career (Kentucky) Drake's affiliation with the University of Kentucky basketball team is undeniably weird and easily explainable -- he is attracted to winners. By finagling his way into the UK inner circle, he gets to experience the life of ...