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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Watch the Throne: The Samples
Yes, it’s finally here. ‘Watch the Throne’, the hotly anticipated new album from hip-hop heavyweights Kanye West and Jay-Z, is released today. Working with an impressive list of top producers, Kanye and Jay made sure they work on the album together in the same room as they recorded it in various locations around the world. The [...]
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 [...]
RJD2: The WhoSampled Interview
Beatdigger, producer and DJ RJ Krohn aka RJD2 needs no introduction. With 3 studio albums under his belt and a whole string of productions and remixes for artists such as Massive Attack, The Go! Team, Aesop Rock and Souls of Mischief, RJD2 is certainly a force to be reckoned with. Right at the calm before [...]
