The internationally renowned musician Carl Stone has been called the king of sampling, but he's not a hip-hop artist or club DJ. Rather, Stone is an artist in the tradition of experimentalists like ...

Seun Kuti has been playing with his father Fela’s band Egypt 80 since he was 9, so when his famous dad died in 1997, he left the ensemble in capable hands. In a crowded field of Afrobeat imitators, ...

Daimatsu is an electronic music performance spun from field recordings captured in both the US and Japan. It incorporates elements such as shomyo chant recorded during the Goma Fire Ceremony at ...

Stone at the Stone definitely has a ring to it. The Tokyo-based, Morton Subotnick-educated laptop samurai digests street sounds, musical samples, and brain-twisting loop-the-loops with digital aplomb.

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