Armand Van Helden

It's about rhythms and samples and technology, some hot-shit combination of which
whispers the bomb. Hip-hop – the virtues of its best MCs notwithstanding – has proved the
most significant means of pop-record production since the Beatles and George Martin
because of the actual music that its methods yield. And ever since DJ Kool Herc set a
needle down on the juiciest break in some old disco song, that music has been a... More >