About Micro-Chop

Dissecting beatmaking, DJing, music production, rapping, and sampling.

About Gino Sorcinelli and Micro-Chop

Welcome to Micro-Chop by me, Gino Sorcinelli. During my time as a freelance journalist I’ve written engaging, narrative non-fiction articles for Ableton, HipHopDX, Okayplayer, Passion of the Weiss, Red Bull Music Academy, Reverb, UndergroundHipHop.com, and Still Crew.

My Micro-Chop article on the making of Madvillainy was selected for inclusion in the book Best Damn Hip Hop Writing: 2018.

Micro-Chop started as a Medium publication in 2016 and has earned an extremely passionate, dedicated following in the years since. Now I’m looking to further expand my audience.

The Micro-Chop newsletter dissects beatmaking, DJing, music production, rapping, and sampling. Each article I write to my subscribers aims to explore the intersection of the personal experience and process behind a wide variety of songs and albums. Many Micro-Chop stories have a strong focus on instrumental hip-hop and rap music, but I also write about several other genres.

What people are saying about Gino and Micro-Chop

Mr. Green @greenhiphop

.@micro_chop makes me a better producer and a better human haha

SwimDadBrad @ohbliv

Salute to that man @ginosorcinelli doing the good work for hip hop

Kil @Kil889

I gotta say my guy @ginosorcinelli is EASILY one of the dopest #hiphop journalist this culture has EVER seen! There's absolutely no way you can't read one of his pieces and say you didn't learn anything! Dude is helping preserve our culture! medium.com/micro-chop/pau… #SALUTE

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