Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records [Paperback]

0. Sample-based Hip Hop as metamodern phonographic practice (An autoethnography of oscillating betweenand beyondanalogue nostalgia and digital futurism)  Part 1: (Inter-stylistic) Composition, and Tools  1. Sonic necessity, mother of compositional invention (Making Blues for sample-based Hip Hop)  2. Boom-bap aesthetics and the machine  Part 2: (Reverse) Engineering  3. Sonic pasts in Hip Hops future  Part 3: (The magic of sample-based) Production  4. Phonographic ghosts and meta-illusions in contemporary beat-making  Part 4: Mixing (records within records)  5. Manufacturing phonographic otherness for sample-based Hip Hop  Part 5: (Exponential) Re/Mastering  6. Past masters, present beats

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond.

This book needed to be written. Were lucky the job was done by such a creative soul, expert engineer, and insightful scholar. The gift were left with is a penetrating exposition of the poetic fabric of contemporary music recording practice and culture.

Albin Zak, Professor of Music Emeritus, University at Albany

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop is a tour de force and the best example I have seen of theory and practice coming together in hip-hop studies to date. Not only does this book provide a useful template for praclcÎ