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...influential Studio One and was the first person to record Bob Marley and the Wailers; in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1950s, he operated some of the most popular "sound systems"?makeshift turntable and speaker sets that played dance records for partygoers?which helped lay the foundation for hip-hop and DJ culture...
...focusing on the struggles of a poor black family in a Chicago tenement at the dawn of the civil rights era. The revival of A Raisin in the Sun that opened last week on Broadway is groundbreaking in a way more suited to our times. It stars a hip-hop impresario with scant acting experience, making his Broadway debut: Sean (P. Diddy) Combs...
...Take Mike Skinner, the latest Voice of a Generation, British division. Known as The Streets when he's making music, Skinner, 24, is remarkably industrious. He started work on his second album as soon as he finished the first: Original Pirate Material, an effortless mix of U.K. garage, hip-hop and dance beats that burst Skinner out of his bedroom two years ago, sold more than a million copies worldwide, made the U.S. Top 30 and moved Rolling Stone to declare "British hip-hop" no longer an oxymoron. With so much anticipation for his follow up, A Grand...
Primum is made up of nine songs that reflect the varied interests of Harvard’s artists. There are two songs by hip-hop group Tha League, who recently finished a music video for the included song, “Stop Stop,” two by indie favorites The States—as winners of a national unsigned-band competition, they will soon fly to Los Angeles to record a whole CD—two by the acoustic singer/songwriter/label president Zaccagnino, one by the jazz group Modern Music Collective, one by Jamie B. Fordyce ’05?...
...used a portable Pro Tools system that brought mobile and professional recording capability. Zaccagnino enthusiastically claimed that “the CD came out exactly how we hoped it would. The feel of the CD is great. The genres range from jazz and acoustic rock to hip hop and indie rock, but the whole CD has a real coherent feel to it because the emphasis wasn’t on a genre, but on the quality of the musicianship and music.” The album was mixed and mastered by Mantis Evar, who is, as Zaccagnino puts...