RAP have nothing to do with hip-hop. Or do they? In the 1990s, after a series of landmark court settlements brought an end to the genre’s sample-tastic golden era, producers began creating their own melodies. Many did so using the Korg Triton, the Japanese synthesizer released in 1999 that gave birth to Clipse’s “Grindin’,” Terror Squad’s “Lean Back,” Jay Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” among many other immortal tunes.
In the late 2000s, as Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On” (another Triton classic) faded in the rearview, British producers Guy Gormley and Thomas Bush met somewhere on Britain’s South Coast. Gormley was making sample-based music and Bush loved it. They set about making “humorous big room techno, but with folk singing”…

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