Jazz historian Ted Gioia posts a list of his 100 best albums of the year. Here is his list for 2016 (so far). I always make a pledge to listen to at least 100 albums a year but I didn’t make the cut in 2015. I’m far behind this year too so it’s remarkable to …
Jaylib went HAM in their respective ways on Da Rawkus, an unreleased track from 2002.
And now for something unexpected – Michael Jackson vocals on a metal track. This is Acle Kahney’s “Trippin Clip”. We rarely cover rock or its various offshoots but we’re making an exception for this brilliant mashup. Acle Kahney is an audio engineer and musician and “Trippin Clip” is the result of some experimentation and a …
We’ve taken a look at Tha Alkaholiks’ “All Night” sampling Stevie Wonder’s “Too High”. Stevie features prominently in every producer’s music collection. That invariably leads to sampling once in a while – or a lot. “Too High”, from his 1976 classic Innervisions, has been sampled on at least 8 tracks WhoSampled can account for. The …
Need help organising your digital music collection? Then this 3-part mini-guide might be useful. The death of the iPod classic was a watershed moment in music technology. It effectively marked the end of pocket-sized digital music collections. Sure, you can play millions of tracks on streaming services like Spotify and Google Play but unless you …
Tanya Morgan return with Abandoned Theme Park, a hip hop salad bowl of poignant lyricism and unconventional beats. Hip hop is often misinterpreted as a genre of excess and criminality. The finer points of humanity rarely receive the exposure they deserve and that’s a damn shame. Tanya Morgan are a duo free of these harmful …
Namebe Soul returns with the stripped down I Dunno .i. Growth and change are inevitable parts of life and music (not the industry) welcomes these transitions without judgement. Namebe Soul has been on our radar for some time and we’re really happy to see that positive growth culminate in “I Dunno .i”. The lyrics are fresh and …
Enjoy this re-released remix of 4hero’s Play With The Changes, courtesy of UK producer st/rr. Remixing the work of your idols is a daunting task but st/rr had certainly created a jam here. st/rr decided to flip the last few minutes of the original, added his own percussion and created a mysterious ambience in the …
Ashton James Brown takes a look at “SumoTreats”, the latest and greatest from London-based jazzy-hop supremos, SumoChief. The DNA of hip hop has been imbricated with jazz since its birth in the 70s. From the raw drum beats and relentless energy to the intrepid spirit of improvisation, hip hop has both tacitly and overtly sampled from its forbear …
Need that final touch for your track? These sites may hold the key with thousands of sound effects. Sound effects add extra spice to compositions but recording your own can be time-consuming. Fortunately, Hongkiat have compiled a list of over 70 sites where you can download free SFX samples, home to tens of thousands of different …
Get into this short-but-sweet DOOM Instrumentals mix.
Samples.fr reminded us of a Leonard Cohen sample used by the Wu-Tang Clan back in 1998. Our good sample buddies in France picked a fine Leonard Cohen flip to commemorate his passing a few days ago. The sample in question comes from Cohen’s 1974 track, “Who by Fire”, used on Wu-Tang’s “Execute Them”. There’s nothing …
What is jazz to you? Here’s what it is to us. Jazz is a mood Jazz is a groove Jazz is Black American Music Jazz is not what you think Jazz is a trip Jazz is all sound Jazz is all encompassing Jazz is without rules Jazz is not for fools Jazz is spiritual Jazz …
You’ll want to get your mind round this LP from Scruffnuk Dust.
Take a walk on the outside with Otis Mensah and his introspective EP, Computers Outside. The evaluation of technology and its role in our lives is constantly scrutinised. Shows like “Black Mirror” have garnered wide praise for their dark analysis and now its permeating the hip hop world. “Computers Outside” is the latest EP from …
Single #4 from The Strangest Freaks comes in the form of worldly “Jaffa”. We featured The Strangest Freaks a while back when they dropped Check Out The Sound with Dudley Perkins. Their eclectic sounds continue with “Jaffa”, the fourth single from their debut album “Thrills Galore”. The best way for me to describe it is …
More Arabic funk from Jakarta Records.
While we try to make sense of US presidential election results, Fredara Mareva Hadley has compiled a playlist for us all.
Bob Fadoul – dubbed “Morocco’s James Brown Meets King Tubby” – threw some Arabic funk onto a reggae ridden and call it Fi Jamaïque. We can’t believe it either. This is arguably the most peculiar track we’ve featured on Sampleface but entertaining nonetheless. Not much is known about Bob Fadoul besides the Little Richard aesthetic …
Tokyo’s beat maestro Bugseed shows us his Street Mentality.