Micro-Chop/Gino Sorcinelli Articles Featured on Ableton, Roland, and Reverb
Plus other exciting stories to share.
On March 8th aka International Women’s Day something very exciting happened. Roland posted about Linafornia on their official Instagram page. Better yet, they included the Micro-Chop interview I did with her over the summer of 2019 in their story.
At the risk of stating the very obvious, Roland is a legendary manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and music software. They’re responsible for the iconic and highly influential TR-808 drum machine, Juno-106 synthesizer, and SP-404 sampler to name just of few of their more notable inventions. To have them acknowledge the amazing artistry of Linafornia and my conversation with her was a very special moment.
If you haven’t already, I highly recommend that you take a moment to read our interview and learn about Linafornia’s inspiring perseverance amidst adversity and the stories behind her most excellent 2016 debut YUNG.
Sixteen days later Ableton published my new interview with STLNDRMS—the second feature that I’ve written for them in the past year. It’s currently sitting proudly at the top of their homepage. I still can’t believe that two things I’ve written have ended up on the front page of a music software company that has long been an industry standard.
I’ve interviewed STLNDRMS several times before, but I really saw this as an opportunity to write a definitive piece about him given the scope and size of Ableton’s music detail-obsessed audience. I had the chance to nerd out and get as granular as I wanted and our conversation didn’t disappoint. We talked about everything from anime soundtracks on vinyl to value of syncing older equipment with Ableton and had a blast doing it.
This was another very proud moment. It would make me so happy if you gave it a read.
In other news, Joel Handley at Reverb continues to give me a voice and a huge audience to tell Micro-Chop type stories to. Joel, if you’re reading this, thank you.
For my most recent piece, I attempted to trace the history of rap music production from live studio musicians and pause tapes in the beginning to records from the early ‘90s by Dre, DJ Quik, and Tribe that set new standards for engineering, mastering, and production.
I really enjoyed writing this and it took a lot of research and effort. I would love if you checked it out.
Finally, you maybe heard about D-Nice and his “"Homeschool” aka “Club Quarantine" IG Live party that exceeded 100,000 viewers and had people like Stevie Wonder dropping by. First and foremost, props to that man as he is absolutely killing it and I love to see him get his very well-deserved props after dedicating 34 years of his life to rap music and hip-hop culture.
I’ve been a fan of D-Nice for a minute and I feel like his music randomly comes in and out of my life. I remember finding a copy of To Tha Rescue on tape many, many years ago and loving it. It felt like one of many deserving rap albums that just kind of slipped through the cracks and disappeared after catching some initial buzz at the time of its release.
After seeing D blow up for his current string of IG parties, I wanted to write something about a different time of his career. I did some social media digging and discovered that he produced the classic socially conscious posse cut “Self Destruction” when he was only 18. Then I wrote a Micro-Chop story about it.
I had a lot of fun writing it. Hopefully you dig it too.
Whether you read all of these stories or just give them a quick skim, any and all support is greatly appreciated. I’m so humbled and grateful that my work is appearing one websites like Ableton, Roland, and Reverb. I honestly couldn’t do it without all of you showing me encouragement, love, and support.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for reading, see you on Wednesday!
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