Beat Makers

Raw and unfiltered, this mix of interviews and slices-of-life charts the uphill struggles and high-flying dreams of record producers nationwide, some of them still striving in home-built studios, others already accomplished industry players. Recognition is the prize, and to achieve it, we find track masters forming a coalition they call The Battery, meant to launch a collective strike against the industry and club-scene status quo. Together, they make up a total picture of artists driven on the twin engines of talent and ambition.