Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a ...

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams captures the underground beat-maker scene of Queens.

Jonathan Carollo banging out a beat on the washing machine in 2012. (KOMO News) He hit the front of the machine with his knee for a bass sound, he hit the tops and the sides.