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Asa Ruven has
been making beats for a minute. After spending the majority
of
his young life as an obsessive hip-hop fan, he bought some cheap-ass DJ
equipment in middle school. Naturally, the next step was to
get
himself a proper set of turntables, and, later, and MPC.
After
learning the basics of his new gear, he ran into a fellow hip-hopper at
his high school who was curious about what this mystical "MPC" thing
was all about. The rest, as they say, is history.
That
curious high-schooler was Red Idea, and a production partnership was
formed. After impressing their small community, the duo
finally
found some much-needed kinship (and some hot rhymes) when Red Idea
hooked them up with Third
Touch. The Mass Production crew was formed, and
Asa had more reason than ever to keep churning out beats. He proceeded
to lace Mass Pro
with numerous beats for songs, shows, freestyles, and more, and helped
put together If A Beat
Drops In The Woods..., he and Red's first album. The album
was primarily assembled in the The
Woods,
Asa's home studio out in Warwick, MA (hence the title, for all you slow
people). Nowadays, you're likely to find Asa getting dusty at
a
record store near you, copping obsure hip-hop CDs on eBay, or trying to
convince Phreeze Phrame to record a new song.
Or just making beats. |