Daniel Werman
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Daniel has been an obsessive record collector and all-around music nerd since his adolescence. A former major label A&R rep, he resides in New York and works as a music consultant for various companies and DJs every now and again, if he thinks the people are worthy.

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The Best Music You've Never Heard: 30 Years Later - Matthew Larkin Cassell

Posted May 24, 2010 | 13:51:51 (EST)

2010-05-24-matthewlarkincassellcompleteworks.jpg In my senior year of college - when I was still heavy into hip hop production, a buddy of mine, B-Sides (or, more familiarly, Brendan), passed along an MP3 to me excited over the crisp drum break that occurred midway through the...

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Genre Bending: How Hip Hop Became Kind of hip Pop

Posted March 6, 2009 | 13:00:00 (EST)

Nasir Jones, aka Nas, or, to those of us unwilling to let go of the past, Nasty Nas, may have actually been right. Hip Hop, the music that most of the dot-com generation has grown up with, might very well be dying -- if it's not already dead. Why? Well...

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