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An Introduction to Mastering Hip-Hop and Pop Music
While most artists send their tracks out to a pro for mastering, you can achieve a decent result yourself with some focused experimenting.
How to Add More Character to Your Hip-Hop Mix
Mixing is about more than just the technical ability to prepare sound for mastering, it’s an opportunity to add soul and life to your music.
Our 10 Favorite Essential Instrumental Hip-Hop Tracks
Instrumental hip-hop is now omnipresent in film, TV, and dorm room study halls. Here are 10 essential tracks that helped the genre evolve.
Go Over the Breaks and Dive Deep Into Dilla
Episode 17 of Soundfly’s podcast “Themes and Variation” is live now. Join Carter, JSWISS and Charles Burchell to discuss the great J Dilla.
Why You Should Be Using Markers in Your DAW When Producing
Want to know what separates amateur producers and working professionals? Markers. Here’s why, and how to use them in your music.
“It Was a Good Day”: Sharing Your Experience Through Lyrics
Taken from our “Themes and Variation” companion course on Soundfly, this lesson uses Ice Cube as a reference for personal lyric writing tips.
Songs That Use Found Sounds in Intriguing Ways
That’s what we’re talking about today in Episode 14 of our podcast, “Themes and Variation” with guest Sam Friedman (Past Palms).
7 Hip-Hop Producers Pushing the Genre in New Directions
Hip-hop has been pulled in so many directions over the years, here are 7 producers who we think will do the pulling for years to come.
Songs to Inspire Change (with Speech and Keenan The First)
We’re talking about inspiring change in Episode 13 of our podcast, “Themes and Variation” with guests Speech Thomas and Keenan The First.