Khrysis, a member of The Soul Council and foundational North Carolina hip-hop outfits Little Brother and the Justus League, was making beats before he even knew how to make beats – as a kid, he hooked up a dual-cassette deck and a Casio keyboard to make pause tapes from his parents’ jazz, soul and funk records. ![]() Using a sample from Oakland producer Sndtrak and a record full of dusty drum breaks, Khrysis delivers a delicious slab of classic boom-bap, adding variation and grit to the beat by way of live drops (also known as mutes) and the frequency kill switches on an old Numark M3 2-channel DJ mixer (through which he runs his turntable), then adding a bassline from MONARK.
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