Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century patti smith an alchemist capable of transfiguring

an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form

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Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century patti smith an alchemist capable of transfiguringAuthor: Laurent Fintoni The first decades of the 21st century saw dramatic changes in the music industry as technology transformed creation, communication, and consumption. Amid this turmoil one change occurred relatively quietly, almost naturally: so called bedroom producers, music makers raised on hip hop and electronic music, went from anonymous, often unseen creators to artists in their own right. In Bedroom Beats and B sides, journalist Laurent