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 sounds. The best thing about them is they’re all royalty-free…
Chillhop Essentials Fall 2016 is out now and ideal for your autumnal music needs. Chillhop Records always comes with the goods and their Fall 2016 compilation is their latest release. With tracks from the likes of Mecca:83, Handbook and Bonus Points, this comp is hot cocoa for your eardrums. The styles from every track complement each other, with each artist adding their own touch of…
Released just a week ago, “Nice.” is the second album from acoustic pair Super Guitar Bros. This is unbelievably chilled. Steven Poissant and Sam Griffin are the Super Guitar Bros and met back in 2007 at a local coffee shop. They’ve played together ever since and three years on from their eponymous debut, they’re back with “Nice.” As you can tell from their name, they…
There was a present we forgot to open on Christmas Day and it came in the form of SAMPLE’s debut, The Art of Sampling. What better day to release an album called The Art of Sampling than Christmas Day. Well, that’s what we thought anyway. LA producer SAMPLE did precisely that last year with his debut LP. As he told us, most of the project’s…
Boyoom Connective’s Miles Singleton and Sleepdealer release Sessions EP. Miles Singleton and sleepdealer are a pair of producers with a love of lo-fi beats. Their collaborative effort “Sessions EP” captures the current aesthetic with bulky percussion and undulating samples. Soundboy is the stand out track. At nearly 5 minutes, it’s by far the longest and unusual for this kind of release but the added acapella…
For our birthday month, Scott Xylo has dropped an exclusive joint called Super Contra Homies. We might have been incredibly late to our own birthday party, but that hasn’t disrupted the celebrations. In fact, one of our brethren, Scott Xylo, has provided us with an incredible present in the form of Super Contra Homies. I must point out the title was made up by myself…
Lille-based producer C Y G N collaborates with RKZ on the ethereal “All Yours”. As summer winds down for another year, we enter the season of autumn (and “cuffing” for those inclined to participate). The air is colder, the nights are longer and you’ll want to stay in a lot more. You’ll be needing some music for those chilly nights and C Y G N…
Natural Material release SP-404-inspired compilation, 1000 IDEAS BEAT TAPE. Twenty lo-fi beats courtesy of online collective Natural Material. It appears every track was made using the SP-404, so expect gruff-sounding beats and obscure samples galore. Stream it below. 1000 IDEAS BEAT TAPE by NATURAL MATERIAL
Grab some of the 11,000+ royalty-free samples at Converse Rubber Tracks… for free! The discovery of this site had me metaphorically salivating. The folks at Converse Rubber Tracks, a community music studio based in New York, are offering up more than 11,000 royalty-free samples from the wide range of musicians who have played sessions there. The likes of Gary Bartz, Otis Brown III, Daru Jones…
NYC producer Blake Frederick drops the second volume from his Rhythm N’ Beats Vol. 2, inspired by 9th Wonder, J Dilla, and Jake One. As controversial as Reddit can be, some of the subforums are a treasure trove for hobbyists and enthusiasts of any discipline. While browsing the /r/makinghiphop subreddit, I stumbled upon this an album by New York producer Blake Frederick. The beatmaker is…