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I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

I started making beats in high school.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I'd hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

You can call me a beat-maker, but I'm a record producer.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats.

I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.