The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience blends classical music with hip-hop rhymes. Experience this concert and dance party this ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

Apple Music commissioned Mannie Fresh, Legatron Prime, DJ Poppa and KLC the Drum Major to make mixes ahead of Super Bowl LIX.

drum machines and samplers – who made these groundbreaking advances in music. For hip-hop, this meant manipulating breakbeats from songs like Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” and ...

Or a part of it. The song's drum break is one of the most sampled pieces of music in history, says music historian, author and deejay John Morrison, who, along with with Josh Leidy, is leading "A ...

The music genre is not just known for the hit ... By 1981, with the introduction of the drum machine, Hip-Hop fully embraced technology, expanding the reach of the DJ and putting the genre on ...

There are also a lot of music fans who argue that ... the advent in 1980 of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, which offered up many of the classic hip-hop percussion sounds that remain popular ...

“It’s fast-paced, energetic, 808 bumping — the drums are just ... a certain bounce to the music,” he said. Some of the youngest members of Connecticut’s hip-hop scene are two emerging ...