The Sample Story behind DJ Shadow’s ‘Rocket Fuel’
Occasionally, family and friends will refer me to vinyl collections because they know it’s my thing. Usually, it’s just run-of-the-mill stuff that I’m happy to take off of people’s hands;…
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Free Download: Cut Chemist – Impeach The Precedent (Mix)
The Impeach The President break from 1973 is timeless, and the title is as relevant as ever. DJ/producer Cut Chemist just released a 50-minute mix consisting of 45 hip-hop tracks sampling…
An Animated Look at Digable Planets’ “Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)”
Why did all Digable Planets members have insect-inspired nicknames? What’s the trumpet sample in “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”? How does Argentinian essayist Jorge Luis Borges come into play? This…
Grooves & Samples #42: Bernie Worrell – All the Woo in the World (1978)
Grooves & Samples offers a dive into old crates of jazz, funk & soul, to find more music through hip hop. Few keyboardists have been as influential and central to the…
Pooky – Flippin’ The Disco / Tux Redux (People Under The Stairs Remixes for Waxnerds)
All the way back in 2009 1980, Thes One & Double K appeared on the Chikara Kurahashi Hit Station, a fictitious variety show in Tokyo. Their contemporary version of Disco…
Grooves & Samples #41: Brenda Russell – If Only For One Night (1979)
Grooves & Samples offers a dive into old crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond, in order to find more music through hip hop. Brenda Russell was born in Brooklyn,…
Sampling 101 by GUTS: ATCQ’s Find A Way vs. Technova
The latest edition of what we’ve been missing: Find A Way Vs. Technova by Parisian DJ/producer/legend-in-the-making GUTS. On the track he provides the listener with some sample schooling by combining “Find A Way” of…