APOLLO BROWN / HIPHOP IN DETROIT / COOL EDIT?! / WORKING WITH SKYZOO AND OTHER LEGENDS
The Chop Shop: A Music Production PodcastShow Notes
Send us a Text Message. "Everything I make, I try to make it my favorite album of all time."Simplicity is genius. Great artists can make the ostensibly impossible seem effortless. It’s in this rarefied air where you’ll find Detroit's Apollo Brown, constantly conjuring fresh innovations out of a tried-and-true formula. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has singularly re-defined and expanded the foundation of what boom bap production can sound like in the 21st Century.Just ... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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