616 - Taste the Pain with special guest Michael Beinhorn - a look into the production of some absolutely massive albums
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. We have a great guest today, and Richard actually did quite a bit of work with him recently. |
| 0:13.0 | Rich, tell us about Michael here. |
| 0:15.0 | So, full disclosure, I wasn't aware of Michael before I wrote this, well, I, I, I edited a book that |
| 0:24.0 | makes it sound like I did all the work. I did nothing. I put it in an indesign. Michael was there. |
| 0:28.6 | You just, you just wrote it. So, I read the book as I was editing. I thought, this guy is, |
| 0:35.2 | is telling a great story. And oh, by the way, he happens to be |
| 0:38.9 | the producer of some of my favorite albums. So we have Michael Beinhorn, who has produced |
| 0:46.6 | super unknown. Everything that you love, basically. I've just got to get it out there as well. |
| 0:54.5 | This guy produced or worked on Rocket by Herbie Hancock. |
| 0:59.2 | I co-produced it. |
| 1:00.9 | Oh, dude. |
| 1:01.8 | And I co-wrote it. |
| 1:04.2 | Guys, this is the soundtrack of young Richard's youth. |
| 1:08.5 | When I went into my electro phase, Rocket is it. That is the... |
| 1:13.6 | Dude, who doesn't in their younger days, right? And I... |
| 1:19.6 | Fair enough. |
| 1:22.6 | I mean, Brian's still experiencing his. So, yeah. I'm still working on mine. I'm still working on mine. I cannot speak highly enough of the body of work you've done. So welcome, Michael. Thank you, sir. It's a real pleasure to have you here. So let's start at the beginning, seem sensible. Herbie Hancock, Rocket was one of your early, like, big breakthroughs, I guess. |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah, yeah, that's right. |
| 1:48.1 | So, honestly, I think that's probably one of the most sampled bit of scratch record ever, like, in hip-hop. |
| 1:56.9 | The scratch from that song has been used in nearly every important hip-hop song to date, I think. |
| 2:03.9 | Well, yeah, and one of the very happy coincidences about that is that I also created that sound. |
| 2:14.5 | Oh, wow. |
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