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danked.com is a website run by two brothers, Rich and Ben.

Over the last decade we've been fortunate enough to have worked on many music projects with talented artists, mainly from Northern California. We specialize in inventive, cutting edge audio and strive to work with artists who share a love for great music with fulfilling lyrical content. In the past we have worked on many other styles of music over a wide range of different sounds. danked.com serve

s as both a home for musical projects that we have worked on over the years and place on the web you can go to find out what is going on with the artists we work with.

02/15/2026

I am honored to be contributing Dirt Style beats to the unreleased scratch practice album archive I’ve personally used for years.

These clips are just a behind-the-scenes peek at some of the 16-bar tools I submitted. Raw, chunky, and built strictly for scratching and juggling. Just showing some of what I’ve been cooking lately. If any of these get selected, you’ll be able to grab them over at djqbert.com along with tons of other dirt style breaks.

Do you recognize any of the opening samples? If so… where are they from?

01/30/2026

For me, it isn’t about turning music into money. It’s about turning time into meaning. As adults, most of what we learn is optimized for work, efficiency, and output. For me, music time is different. I did some research and then made these slides to explain why I keep investing time in a music hobby “just for fun.” The science backs it. The mental health benefits are real. And the process itself is the reward. If you’ve ever felt guilty for sinking hours into something that isn’t paying you… hopefully this is your permission slip. Scratching, beat making, recording, collaborating - none of it has to pay. That’s exactly why it works for me.

Practice builds the brain.
Flow quiets the noise.
Creation becomes problem-solving instead of pressure.

Keep practicing. Keep experimenting. Keep sharing. The long game and burning hours is the point. You can’t hack skill you have to earn it with practice.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year. A little something different trying to inspire a laugh.

I’ve been spending a lot of time sharpening fundamentals. Scratching drills first, but also production, listening deeper, and lots of vibe based beats. I’ve been thinking about the infinity beat making method and then rewatching Three Amigos, I felt like I had to make this little comedic musical bit for fun.

This clip is built around the impossibly long note from The Three Amigos. It uses the classic infinity producer method to stretch the note across the bars, then flips it with drums and scratch bass. There is a tiny micro-beat inside. It’s meant as a tribute to producers who taught patience, groove, and restraint, with a subtle nod to Dilla-inspired feel.

This isn’t about technical flexing. The scratching is really basic. It’s more about feel, comedy, and storytelling than skill level.

This is also my first time recording video scratches in my new setup and my first sessions fully moved over to djay Pro. I’m still learning, but super excited about the creative possibilities.

Big thanks to the new friends who’ve helped me navigate new tools and refine drills. Hoping 2026 is the year a few long-worked-on ideas finally see the light. More scratches coming. This one is just for fun.

12/17/2025

Now shipping! Thanks for your patience.

12/07/2025

Just had a full-circle moment. I’ve been hanging out at the Octagon with the crew there, and I was blessed with the chance to get one of my beats on Dirt Style Records – Unreleased Breaks No. 96.
I’ve been downloading every Dirt Style release the second they drop and practicing to them for YEARS… so having one of my beats included is wild and honestly an honor.

This video starts with some drills and ends with me freestyling and having fun.
Hope you dig it — and definitely grab the new unreleased breaks, there’s a ton of heat on there.
Still learning every day, but man… I love scratching and enjoy my practice time.

12/03/2025

The wait is over:
Daytons & Dickies Vol. 1 - Heavy 180g Vinyl orders will ship next week

Cut from newly mastered files, pressed on audiophile-weight wax, and featuring some of the dopest artists in the NorCal underground.

11/09/2025

Clip from the octagon Saturday night. I got to session with the master and met many super talented individuals with remarkable style. To say I had the time of my life doesn’t begin to describe how high I am off the hours spent with these folks. Q really gives back to the community. A humble thank you 🙏 so many teachers in the building

11/07/2025

I am super grateful for the opportunity to go session in the Octagon with and friends

10/28/2025

Studio Session - Portishead Flip + Z-Man Acapella (from stem)
I think I digest music a little differently than most people. When a song hits me, I get obsessed—I’ll play it on repeat, break it apart, trace the samples, rebuild the beat, and study every layer until I really understand what makes it tick. That’s just how I enjoy music. It’s how I learn it. It’s how I live it.
As an audio engineer and person who loves the sound of scratching, I love putting songs on the platters, cutting them up, and blending them into something new. With tools like Serato Stems and Logic Pro’s stem-splitter, I can isolate vocals, drums, and samples from my favorite records and rebuild them from the ground up.
In this reel, I flipped one of my all-time favorite tracks, Portishead’s “Machine Gun” (from Third). I split the stems in Logic, brought them back onto the decks, and paired them with Z-Man’s remix of the same song from YouTube. I downloaded it, mashed it together, and just explored new textures and rhythms.
This is me in the studio doing what I love - experimenting, learning, and pushing my sound forward.
Big respect to I’d love to take this concept further and flip a whole Portishead album together. What do you say?

10/14/2025

cooking up a mix of the movie trailer, original motion picture sound track and a Dirt Style record for a 90’s retro scratch bed. A little cameo from and in here too. A bunch of Easter eggs in the edits, including personal shirt prints from the shop.

06/27/2025

RTJ Wu Tang night with the homies

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