Win one of five copies of Shawn Lee’s Incredible Tabla Band’s new album, ‘Tabla Rock’, with just a tweet! ‘Bongo Rock’ by Michael Viner‘s Incredible Bongo Band is a truly seminal album in sampling culture. It started life as studio project initiated by Viner, then MGM’s head of music, to record a soundtrack for an [...]
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Interview with DJ Ready Red of the Geto Boys
Collins Leysath, aka DJ Ready Red, was the producer of legendary rap group the Geto Boys. Red has produced the majority of tracks on the group’s iconic and controversial second and third albums, Grip It! On That Other Level and The Geto Boys. His productions had a raw, hard-hitting, sample-heavy sound that was forward-thinking at the time and [...]
The 10 Most Sampled Breakbeats of All Time
You can’t mention sample-based music and not talk about drum breaks. In the early 1970′s, years before producers had begun chopping up old records on samplers, Jamaican-born and Bronx-based DJ Kool Herc introduced a new approach to mixing records, paving the way for the development of Hip-Hop beatmaking. At the time, when playing extended disco [...]
