Taboo Question: Music Production 101 for a noob

http://youtu.be/obw8X6hVmXc
http://youtu.be/xqjFXW9L0tU
there are another 12 or so videos.

for general studio/production:
http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

As an aside, if you are going to use the search function, it won't sort your results in order of 'relevence' but rather 'chronologically' so you'll have to sift. You may be able to change this setting but I need to attend search function 101 to find out.

Get comfortable with your drums first... with samplers everything else seems to drop into place once you've honed your beat manipulation skills.

Beatmaking on the MPC:
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MPC Tutor's books are a good resource. Choose the one that fits your MPC model.
The MPC Manual that comes with your machine

Notes, Scales, Timesignatures:
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Michael Miller - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory
Michael Miller - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition
The titles sound strange, but the books are really useful

EQ, Effects, Mixing
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Bobby Owinski - The Mixing Engineer's Handbook
The manual that comes with your effects unit, DAW software, whatever you use for
this. Read on what a knob does and then try it out on your own.

Drum programming:
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The theory of drum programming
How to make original drum tracks
Programming realistic drum parts

DJing
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Frank Broughton & Bill Brewster - How to DJ right

Free internet resources:
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SoundOnSound Technique
Tweakheadz

Knowledge on Beat diggin:
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Soulman's World of beats articles

General advice
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Try things out by youself, use your ears. If it sounds good it is good. If you
don't know how to start, try analysing and remaking beats you like. Look up the
samples they used on sites like http://www.whosampled.com/ ,
http://www.the-breaks.com/ and http://www.du-bruit.com/ and try to create the
beat on your own. You'll learn alot from this. Use Youtube beatmaking videos for
inspiration, but don't take them too serious. A lot of the stuff that goes into
beatmaking is not shown in those videos, because it's either boring to watch or
the producer doesn't want to give out that information.