Blogspot Explosion!
What’s up everybody? Just added 9 more blogspot sites to the Sample Matrix. These are more in the soundtrack & library record vein. More great music for you to rapidshare till the wee hours of the morn’.
What’s up everybody? Just added 9 more blogspot sites to the Sample Matrix. These are more in the soundtrack & library record vein. More great music for you to rapidshare till the wee hours of the morn’.
Some drumbreaks, like Impeach* or Amen** , have been used on hundreds of records to the point where even the casual fan can recognize the original track. Others, like Love’s Doggone, may have been used by far fewer producers – but still be every bit as sick.
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Love was an influential psych rock band active in the late 60s / early 70s. They experienced a small degree of commercial success, but inspired a number of successful bands yet to come. By the time their 1969 album Out Here was released, their line up had changed completely, and their sound had evolved to a more experimental, wide-ranging sound.
This break seems to have gone mostly unnoticed for the 80s (collectors were mostly buying funk records?) and had a couple uses in the 90s – but when Kanye West picked it up and dusted it off, people took notice again. Clocking in at 12 minutes long, Doggone features a 9 minute drum solo by George Suranovich that provides lots of sample opportunities:
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Here is is… chapter #55 of the legendary Scorpio61 Sample Mixes… Enjoy, be careful not to overdose on Hip Hop samples.
Scorpio61 is back with another great mix of music from around the world for your listening pleasure… We present to you Scorpio’s 54th mix! #55 to follow very shortly! Hip Hop Samples!
Editorial Note: Sorry for the lateness on this, I thought I had published it already (jim)-
The past year or so looks something like this…
Issac Hayes – dead at 65
Mr. Magic – dead at 53
Bernie Mac – dead at 51
Michael Jackson – dead at 50
Derek B – dead at 44
Baatin of Slum Village – dead at 35
Teddy Pendergrass – dead at 59
And – Pat Robertson’s retarded fire-and brimstone ass is alive and well at the age of 79.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Teddy Pendergrass accomplished so much as a singer and songwriter, and as a lead (and one-time drummer) for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, plus as a successful solo artist over a dozen albums deep.
I’ve been digging through my old gmails trying to figure out which questions I’ve been asked the most over the years. Questions about if, when and how to clear samples …
Have you ever wanted to know how to find people to send your music to on Twitter? Look no further. Through the power of the most powerful search engine in …
I got a good question from a reader named Anthony yesterday. He wanted to know how to write up an invoice for beat sales. For those of you that don’t …
I thought it would be a great idea to iron out a simple format, so whenever you send a track to some A&R, artist, manager, etc, you will make it …
The last few weeks I’ve come across a few discussions online about whether or not you should tag your music when shopping it. So I figured I’d throw in my …
A bunch of people have been asking me how I placed the “Bright Lights Big City” track with Jim Jones. It was pretty easy actually. I Didn’t need a grand scheme or plan (which has worked for me before). I’ll try to make this sound as interesting as possible… but its really not. This is a straight forward example of how real networking pays off.
Soulseek (A peer to peer file sharing program) may very well be the greatest thing in the world for hip hop samples. Here are some tips for power usage on Soulseek…
There are times when you are going through some old music & you get hit with a musical moment of perfection that is so great, you go back and listen to it over and over again. We will call this a REWIND moment.
