Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz talks beat making in Reason

Ad-rock on replacing his E-MU SP-1200 with software

Ben Rogerson, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 4:36 pm BST

Artist interviews conducted by music software and hardware companies can often be a touch too obsequious for our liking, but it's genuinely interesting to hear Beastie Boy Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz telling Propellerhead Software how he ditched his E-MU SP-1200 sampler and started making beats in Reason.

Find out how Horowitz uses the software, and Propellerhead's ReCycle, in the video above. If you're thirsty for more Adrock stories, the deleted scenes from the interview are below.