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In memoriam: Gil Scott Heron
On the 15th anniversary of his passing (May 27, 2011), a young producer remembers his “strange, beautiful” relationship with the legendary soul pioneer Gil Scott Heron on an album that was never released. There’s an unlikely link between Marvin Gaye, The Trammps, Gil Scot Heron and others. The link was a former boxing impresario turned…
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Remixing: what I don’t do any more
Learn from everything – and also learn to apply your learnings when you remix! I always look forward to a remix project. There’s something liberating about taking someone else’s music and re-shaping it. Maybe it’s because we take more liberties and change more things than we would with our own creations. It can be hard…
