In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams ...

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 ...

Trap metal grates on the ears like early black metal and distorts traditional hip-hop beats to create uncomfortable levels of over-modulation. It's as anti-social as modern hardcore and delves into ...

often built on drum machines. These styles emerged from disco and electro and eventually gave birth to styles like electronic dance music (EDM), tropical house and more. Hip-hop is a slower style ...

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