[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQWxrWSsI2k]

I’ve been listening to Pete Rock (born 1970) since he’s been releasing records with British label BBE, and it’s the most accessible route to date to his music. This video shows you how he makes his laid back beats. He uses this machine to “chop up” records:

“Sometimes … I’ll take something that’s a quarter of a bar, like a kick and a snare, that goes boom bap, but there’s enough air between it so that it sounds like it was just played together …”