To whet your appetite for their upcoming album, here’s a funk/rare groove/acid jazz/house mix courtesy of DJ Spivey. We’ll let DJ Spivey describe the mix: I still remember the first time I stumbled on that first Jamiroquai CD. The year was 1993 and I walked by that Disc many times while shopping for 12 inch …
Habibi Funk 005 looks at the work of Ahmed Malek and restoration from Jakarta’s Flako. Ahmed Malek was in his 50s when he discovered synthesizers during their relative infancy in the 80s. His experimentations remained in boxes kept with his family but now they have been brought to earth with the help of Flako. The …
Yumi Rose shows gratitude to those who introduced him to future funk with his latest album, Heaven Only Knows. It’s always good to thank the people who put you on your path and that’s precisely what 18 year old Chicagoan Yumi Rose has done. Heaven Only Knows is a heady mix of future funk, house …
Obscure disco albums are pure gold dust. Kiki Gyan’s 24 Hours In A Disco 1978-1982 is just one of those gems.
You won’t find a smoother track than Evangelion this year and it comes from Scott Xylo.
If you’re on the Pokémon Go hype (hell, who isn’t?), then you might enjoy Akira The Don’s Pokémon Go “peakwave” remix.
Something a little different – German producer Bastien Grine blows off the cobwebs and re-releases his classic number, “Where R U?”
Scott Xylo turns heartbreak into dope music in the form of A Week With Out You EP. Break ups are a bitch and there are a million and one ways to handle them, some more productive others not so much. With our own Scott Xylo, he took to the medium of music to express his …
J-Louis flips Rachel Foxx’s Before You into a dancefloor jam.
Relive the origins of Detroit techno with our Saturday Matinée documentary, Detroit Techno City.
Black Milk goes in a whole new direction for his latest track, Detroit’s New Dance Show. The speed with which Black Milk has been working since his self-imposed hiatus a few years ago is pretty breathtaking and the best part is the quality hasn’t been hindered. No Poison No Paradise was a hit with fans …
It’s the 35th anniversary of the infamous Disco Demolition Night held at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. Witness the footage and the real meaning from Steve Dahl.
Brainfeeder’s Mono/Poly releases a cut off his upcoming album, Golden Skies. Flying Lotus’ champion label have been making great progress this year, from the debut album by Taylor McFerrin to tours by Lapalux, Flying Lotus himself, Thundercat and Captain Murphy. A name to add to that list of steady advancement is Mono/Poly and a couple of days ago, …
Potholes’ Javis FauX has some fun with a Super Mario sample on KAIZO, the title track from his upcoming project.
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 …
Just when you thought you were bored of Pharrell’s Happy, Kaytranada went ahead and rearranged it into a brand new jam. It’s an unwritten rule to have only one song per artist in a playlist/mixtape you make for someone else and while the playlists I make for every summer are for my ears only, I’m …
Sampleface’s The Auracle gets deep in the house rhythms for new track Brightness. There’s no mistaking electronic music’s immense influence on the mainstream over the past few decades and while EDM is every pop artist’s favourite acronym, a lot of it is pretty derivative. However, that’s not the case for The Auracle who has decided …
Funk lord DāM-FЦПK drops a 9+ minute unreleased track called Finally Done Wit’ It. Are you in need of some euphoric funk waves? Then may we present to you DāM-FЦПK and his latest unreleased joint Finally Done Wit’ It. With swathes of warm vibrating synths, the deft rumbling bassline and the odd sonic interjection, FDWI excels …
Louis Futon take us to the dancefloor with his latest remix of Logic’s Break It Down featuring Jhene Aiko. 2012 saw the reemergence of airy 80s synths in mainstream production, with the zenith arguably being Jessie Ware’s debut Devotion. But it seems amongst the Soundcloud conglomerate at least that early 90s house is the popular …
Upon Frankie Knuckles sad passing, this week’s Throwback Thursday is dedicated to the genre he fathered in documentary series Pump Up the Volume: The History of House Music.