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Matt Maes' tendency toward "hyper-focus" led him to a career as an artist and a cozy life as a family man.
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Sampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
Season 1 Episode 21 | Coming soon
A man in Fiji hits a PVC pipe with a flip flop, that sound meets a 17-year-old drummer in North Carolina. A beat is created. And around it all, Platinum selling producer Ski Beatz (producer for Jay Z, Camp Lo and Jay Electronica) lets us know why he even samples in the first place.