Chuck Strangers

For his 13th birthday in 2005, Chuck Strangers was gifted Akai's MPC2000, a bulky workstation immortalized by the likes of J Dilla, Kanye West, and DJ Shadow. Audio interfaces didn't cost $100 the way they do now, and so, like any other adolescent (1) obsessed with music and (2) lacking the riches of favorite musicians, he programmed countless beats onto the machine in his free time, with zero idea how to actually get them out. It would be four years until a friend of his finally introduced him to FL Studio, but those four years - of creation, and a lot of it, purely for creation's sake -...