First book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword.
Contents
Cover; Making Beats; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; New Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 "It's about Playing Records": History; 3 "It Just Doesn't Sound Authentic": Live Instrumentation versus Hip-Hop Purism; 4 Materials and Inspiration: Digging in the Crates; 5 Sampling Ethics; 6 Elements of Style: Aesthetics of Hip-Hop Composition; 7 The Outer Circle: From Samplers to Ears; 8 Conclusions; New Afterword; Endnotes; Bibliography; Interviews by Author; Discography; Index; About the Authors.