Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...

Some sampled loops are instantly recognisable, but there are very few that have shaped entire genres: the 'Amen Break' is most certainly one. The Winstons were a funk/soul band from Washington DC who ...

When designing your own drum kits for electronic music, it doesn’t get any more ‘from-scratch’ than building them on one-shots you’ve recorded yourself using found sounds - kitchen utensils, urban ...