Stevie Wonder, the legendary funk and soul musician, is 63 today.
If you’ve ever needed a rapper name, now you can get one with the Wu-Tang Clan Name Generator.
To all those celebrating Mother’s Day in the States, hope you’re having a great day. Here’s our Song For Sunday for the joyous occasion.
DJ Andy Hickford put together a two part jazz mix a few months ago. Listen to it here. It looks like an unofficial jazz day here at Sampleface, so to continue the trend, we stumbled upon this fine two part mix from Andy Hickford, a DJ from the UK. Part one comprises of “smoky club …
American jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris finds an answer to the question “are there mistakes in jazz?” How many times have you heard people lambast the current state of jazz music or say they don’t like it at all because they’ve chosen to categorise it as “smooth jazz” or “free jazz”? Highly irritating, but if they’re …
We’ve told you about Constrobuz’ beats before but we didn’t tell you about this one.
Spanish electronic producer Blackrock offers up a beautiful remix of James Blake’s Dlm. We loved James Blake’s latest album, Overgrown and being the type of musician he is, he remixes and makes music ready for equal treatment. At least, that’s what Blackrock had in mind. The electronic producer from Madrid picked out Dlm as the …
A rare video of Dilla getting ready for a soundcheck with Slum Village in LA in 2000 has been uncovered.
British producer Matthew Herbert pushes the boundaries of sampling yet again with his upcoming new jazz album. Matthew Herbert, known for his sampling of everyday objects, isn’t a household name in the genres he performs under (and there are quite a few) but he has collaborated with some big names – Bjork, Roisin Murphy of …
UK group Hawk House finally release their mixtape, A Little More Elbow Room. So far, we’ve had a few tracks, a name change and a few videos but at long last, Hawk House has dropped a full release. A Little More Elbow Room full to the brim with soulful synthy hip hop wonders and production …