Archive for the tag 'Soul'


Brenda Russell, Sandra Feva, The McCrarys, Nigel Martinez

Get ready for some essential classics. This past year I’ve been trying to uncover the roots of all my favorite modern genres– especially focused on the realms of disco, funk, soul, and R&B. Tragically, the sort of craftsmanship that went into music in the days before the advent of the personal computer and the drum […]


Beat Evolution pt.01: Footsteps In The Dark

Here’s the first of what I hope will be a series of posts where we look at how some of the sounds we hear today make use of the sounds of old.  Influences can be heard in almost any music out there, but hip-hop has brought to light a technique for incorporating this into the […]