Mike D’s New Solo Album Contains Music Made With 1980s Beastie Boys Sampler
Rolling Stone | 14.07.2026 22:19
If you listen closely to Mike D‘s upcoming solo album, Thank You, you might hear familiar sounds. When composing music, the rapper’s sons, Skyler and Davis Diamond, who comprise part of the band Mike D 5D, used an E-mu SP-1200 sampler, whose vintage is from sometime in the Eighties, on loan from Mike D’s Beastie Boys bandmate, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz. The instrument came with floppy disks preloaded with Beastie beats.
