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Ben Claassen III

How a Beat Becomes a Track

Big Music Issue 2011
  • Big Music Issue 2011 No band is an island. And the same goes for rappers, venues, beats, genres, and all the rest of it. There always remains that connection between the macro and the micro, the guy twiddling knobs in some west Baltimore art space and the left-field leans of th | 7/13/2011
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By Tom Delay, as told to Michael Byrne. Illustration by Ben Claassen III

Published: July 13, 2011

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