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American hip-hop group from New York City who signed to Def Jam in 1985 and released Licensed to Ill — the first hip-hop album to reach #1 on the Billboard 200 — before evolving across multiple genres over three decades.
Beck Hansen is an American musician known for genre-blending across 'Mellow Gold', 'Odelay', and 'Sea Change', and for his use of the Shepard tone on 'Lonesome Tears'.
A 2002 song from Beck's 'Sea Change' album that uses a Shepard tone to create perpetual falling to accompany unresolved grief.
American rock band from Los Angeles who created Blood Sugar Sex Magik with Rick Rubin in 1991 — the album that broke them commercially and established their defining aesthetic — making them one of the most successful rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s.
A 2002 album by Beck marking a departure into a single-genre heartbreak album, notable for its use of a Shepard tone in 'Lonesome Tears'.