These artists are making beats that are chaotic and cacophonous, as soothing as a root canal and as peaceful as an explosion. Death Grips, El-P, and Bigg Jus have all put out albums in the past few months that sound a little bit like a robot getting into a fight with a laundry machine and electric guitar. On the one hand you have producers getting noisier and noisier.
There are two divergent trends in hip-hop production these days.
