From janitor to jerseys – how one Detroit entrepreneur sold off his entire sneaker collection to start Perennial Merchants, an online fashion shop. Having lived in Atlanta, Charles Roberts returned to his hometown of Detroit with a dream. Problem was the capital wasn’t there and working as a janitor on $8 an hour wasn’t going …
Norwegian duo Fredfades & Ivan Ave dropped their EP, entitled Breathe, in February and we’re only just getting round to hearing it. Better late than never… Oslo, home to over 600,000 people, Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream and a pair of the dopest hip hop artists you’ll find this side of the North Sea. …
LD Henriquez speaks candidly about the state of modern day hip hop and gives her views on what should be done to retain its artistic integrity. Conversations regarding ‘music’, particularly hip hop, are an ever present temperamental weather forecast. It can go either way dependent on who the conversation consists of, geographical influences included. Whether …
Witness a triad of throwbacks with the infamous DMX x Rick Astley – Where The Hood At mashup (aka Spilled Milk Remix).
New York emcee Jondis shares some “Deleted Scenes” with Keor Meteor on their latest album. France’s Keor Meteor is something of a collab magnet, having already joined forces with Cor Stidak and Jack Wilson and now the producer has combined with a brand new artist. The emcee in question is New York’s Jondis, a beatmaker in his …
Potholes’ Javis FauX has some fun with a Super Mario sample on KAIZO, the title track from his upcoming project.
A rework of Adele has tiromancy “knee deep” in his latest free track. Rumour has it… There’s nothing quite like a good frickin’ remix especially when the original tune is already brilliant. Case in point: Adele’s Rumour Has It. That’s where Cincinnati’s Geoff Adams (AKA tiromancy) comes in to drop some serious house grooves and …
LA native Jeff Jericho drops a smooth cut – Drives Me Crazy – from his latest project, The Jericho Experience. Summer is a matter of weeks away and if you’re wondering where the time has gone, so are we. But we’re replacing our curiosity about the speed of travelling time with questions of what to …
Chi Town’s Hooligan drops the fourth instalment of his For Medicinal Purposes beat series.
Charting the development of electronic music up until the 70s, BBC documentary The New Sound Of Music is our Saturday Matinée feature. It’s strange to think that synthesizers, some of them now the size of your hand, were monstrous machines that you needed a house to fit them in and the price of a mortgage to …
As it’s Sun Ra’s 100th birthday today, our Throwback Thursday is dedicated to the man from Saturn. Here, he speaks about his music and plays a few compositions including “Face The Music”. Many artists have helped mould the Sampleface aesthetic. Our logo is an obvious homage to DOOM and our strapline – “Face The Music” …
Taken from his upcoming posthumous album is “The Doe”, also featured on the “Give Em What They Want” EP.
Louisville’s Pyxis gives a Jay Dee beat the soul house treatment in “Dilla”. Like it or not, house remixes are in abundance and while the Eurocentric form of the genre has certainly bastardised a lot of music over the past few years, the roots are fighting back. Pyxis from Louisville, Kentucky has delved into the …
We have an exclusive here at Sampleface in the form of Scott Xylo’s Neo-Gotham. I’ve always been a big fan of Batman since a child so upon hearing Scott Xylo had a track inspired by the dystopian version of Bruce Wayne’s home town from Batman Beyond, my attention was well and truly grabbed. But that’s …
Detroit’s SoundBoyMusic channels the spirit of Dilla with his latest project, DeetroitSoundS. Good luck if you’re a producer coming out of Detroit wanting to keep you name away from Dilla’s. Even Black Milk, as diverse as his sound has become over the years, gets the comparison wherever he goes. But some harness the vibe he …
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock has been collaborating with Flying Lotus, as he discussed with Time Out Dubai. You’ll hopefully remember when we showed you footage of Herbie Hancock in the studio with Flying Lotus and Thundercat. Even earlier, there were rumours of a collaboration between the jazz icon and Los Angeles’ electronic maestro but it …
WhoSampled and The Great Escape Festival in Brighton put on the world’s first “Samplethon” in conjunction with Boosey & Hawkes and SoundCloud. People from all over the world applied to participate in the Samplethon and only 20 participants where chosen. I feel blessed to say that I was one of them and what a day …
Oran “Juice” Jones’ classic hit The Rain is our Throwback Thursday. All thanks for this throwback goes to Laurence Holmes of Chicago’s 670 The Score. Produced by Russell Simmons and Vincent Bell and reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B Chart for two weeks and #4 in the UK Charts, Oran “Juice” Jones’ The Rain was …
Record the sounds around you and turn them into beats with Incident’s new app, Sequence.
Our latest edition of Leftover Links features interviews from the likes of Black Milk, Malcolm Cecil and Thelonious Martin.