
Music15.02.2011
Lots of Beats, but No Drum in Sight
FOR about 12 minutes at a recent installment of One Step Beyond, a monthly party at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, no one danced. Instead people were clustered around the stage, watching dumbfounded as Araabmuzik pounded out live drumbeats with his fingertips on a pair of Akai MPC 2500s.