Rising Producer Pushes Hardware Production to its Limits and Challenges the Future of Sampling in Hip-Hop KNIGHTDALE, N.C., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sample-based producer KaiChopSki is announcing ...

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Apple has released Logic Pro X 10.5, promising that the new software is the biggest update since Pro X itself upended the music app. The new version brings with it a professional version of Live Loops ...

"Trap and drill music sampling the old school classics sucks. I have tried to listen to akina Ice Spice and some new Gen Z music with some 90s samples, but I just can't. Lots of bass and auto-tune and ...

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 ...