In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams captures the underground beat-maker scene of Queens.

then a hip-hop kit will also do the trick. 3. Here we’ve loaded a starter lo-fi kit and then swapped out the snare sound for something more suitable. You may find as you program the beat that ...

As for the music itself, well, country's sounding a lot like hip-hop too. You've got trap beats. 808 kick drums. Rap-like rhythms. Even beatboxing. So, why is Nashville borrowing so heavily from ...

The emergence of a new music genre, hip hop ... new beat. This technique effectively evolved turntablism from reworking existing tracks to composing music. With the rise of hip hop the DJ had ...