Timothy Z Mosely who is better known in the music world as Timbaland is a famous American producer, singer and a rapper. He ventured in the music industry in the 90s' and worked as a protege of Devante from Jodeci. His production style is marked by an individualistic uniqueness, unorthodox music arrangements and his instrumentation has a sense of space and rhythm. Timbaland is such a producer who has spread his musical influence on every genre of music and made a successful career as a pop music producer mainly. Timbaland is also a very good performer and has solo and duets to his credit. He also gave vocals to many of the songs sung by him as well as other contemporary singers.

Timbaland worked in collaboration with many of the famous singers and producers like Magoo, Petey Pablo, Beck, Jay-z etc. During the period around 2001, Timbaland produced three tracks for Tweet's debut collection, Southern Hummingbird and produced tracks for singers like Lil Kim and Southern rapper, Pastor Troy. In collaboration with producer Scott Storch, he worked on the production of a number of tracks by the former NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake. This smash album was entitled, "Justified". Another of the massive hits of the album includes "Cry Me a River". This song, however, helped Timberlake to establish himself as a mature singer and helped him to wipe out his teeny bopper image. Timbaland's talents to do rap and his appearance in the music video of "Cry Me A River" made him hugely famous. However, after the release of this album, Timbaland broke up with Scott over some financial problems. In the year, Timbaland produced album "Future, sex, love, sounds" was nominated got the Grammy awards in the "album of the year" category.

Will.i.am has worked with artists like Justin Timberlake, Fergie, Snoop Dogg, and Nas. This earned him a Grammy nomination for producer of the year. Now will.i.am is teaming up with Michael Jackson to work on his comeback album, which is tentatively rumored to release after the new year.

Check out this exclusive video with will.i.am and Michael Jackson in the studio collaborating.

Michael Jackson and super producer will.i.am have been doing, "a lot of talking on the phone, a lot of brainstorming." Their conversations have involved how Michael Jackson can use new technology, like social networking sites, to help promote the album in hopes to boost sales.

What did Michael Jackson have to say about will.i.am's musical style? "I think he's doing wonderful, innovative, positive, great music," says Michael Jackson.

Also rumored to collaborate on the album is, of course, Akon and even Chris Brown. The release of Michael Jackson's album would be the first since "Invincible" in 2001.

Any novice producer would be able to list off the major brands for professional producing hardware. Korg, Roland, Yamaha, and Akai are usually the most common. Open Labs and Timbaland may have another entry to add to this list. And if you are skeptical, don't take our word for it. Look at the record sales for Justin Timberlake's album “Future, Sex, Love, Sounds.” Or you could even look at the record sales for Timbaland's latest album “Shock Value.”

So what exactly does Open Labs make? They make two super-instruments designed for producers. One is called the MiKo (me-koh) and the other is called the NeKo (nee-koh). Take a look at Timbaland talking about his experience with Open Labs products.

So what is so innovative about these two cutting-edge tools? Imagine combining portability, compatibility, and a power-house of a computer to mix, master, and record with. Now take all of that and dump a mammoth arsenal of sound libraries to boot. To be specific, how does 25,027 presets with over 24GB of sounds work for you? Accessing some of the most well known sound sample libraries no longer takes additional downloads or upgrades. Right out of the box, you can have E-MU's Ensoniq Mo'Phatt and Urban Legends sounds at your disposal. And this is just two of the many classic sound banks you can work with.

Among some of the most amazing features, each model has the ability to systematically sample your existing keyboards note by note. You can then make program patches on the fly and save/recall them for use in later productions.

Timbaland and Open Labs have seized a lucrative opportunity and have released the Timabaland Special Edition Miko. “I've made the new Timbaland Special Edition MiKo with Tim's Touch,” said Timbaland, “It's got everything I need in a single box and when I use it, we make masterpieces.”

The special edition MiKo started shipping on August 15, 2007 and has an estimated street price of $3,899.