Sampleface Five: Japanese music samples
Where would we be without Japanese music and its trendsetting behaviour?
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Sampleface Five: Cowboy Bebop Samples
See You Space Cowboy …
Sampleface Five: Free Music Samples
If you need free samples, look no further as the links from this list contain over a million music samples, all royalty-free.
Sampleface Five: Blade Runner Samples
From Ryuichi Sakamoto to Tricky, here are 5 tracks that used Blade Runner samples.
Sampleface Five: Thundercat Samples
Thundercat is one of the most creative jazz musicians of the 21st century. We picked 5 samples from his discography.
Sampleface Five: Kenny G Samples
I don’t like Kenny G. That sounds like an odd admission when I’m about to write about the man but I have reasons. And those reasons are because of you. Well, not necessarily *you* but readers in general. You see, as part of our content strategy, I check what you all search for to make …
Sampleface Five: 100 Years of Thelonious Monk
He was a trailblazer with his improv style, wide-ranging melodic shifts, and trademark fashions. Thelonious Monk was born on this day in 1917. We have been blessed to have had him in our presence, physically and musically. In commemoration of this, we have compiled a list of 5 samples from the great man. 1. Wu-Tang …
Sampleface Five: Marvin Gaye Samples
Blurred Lines might be the most popular and controversial Marvin Gaye sampled-track but there have been plenty more. We picked five.
Sampleface Five: Making Of Videos
We picked five “making of” videos for our latest edition of Sampleface Five. The creation of a beat or general composition can be as simple or as convoluted as you want but for those really dedicated to the craft, it requires a process. “Making of” videos give an insight into those routines and our latest …
Sampleface Five: John Coltrane Samples
It would have been John Coltrane’s 87th birthday yesterday so for that, we’re looking at five samples of the late jazz master’s work. They say the good die young and in John Coltrane’s case, that might well be accurate. The jazz saxophonist, born in North Carolina, passed away at the relatively young age of 40 …
Sampleface Five: MPC1000 Albums
We take a look at five albums made using the MPC1000. I was fortunate enough to come into a large tax rebate a couple of years back and decided it was time to progress my production into a more hardware based set up. Until that point, I was strictly a LPD8/LPK25 guy with Logic, CDs …
Sampleface Five: Music Blogs You Should Be Reading
Here is our selection of five music blogs you should be reading.
Sampleface Five: SP-303 Albums
Akai and their line of MPC’s have ruled the roost for the past couple of decades, with the SP-1200 the only real competition in that department. Now that we have the Maschine, things are a little different but back in 2001, Roland Corporation fused and improved upon the qualities of their Roland MS-1 Digital Sampler …
Sampleface Five: Harmonic Samples
I do love harmonic samples. You could catch a riff and transform it into an instrument or use it as a counter melody. The possibilities are endless. For our latest edition of Sampleface Five, we look at five quality examples of what can be done with harmonic samples by some of the best producers around. …
Sampleface Five: Hip Hop Songs About Jesus
Besides Christian hip hop, the genre is far from being the music of the church but that hasn’t stopped rappers using religious imagery in their lyrics and album art (Kanye, anyone?). Since it’s Good Friday, we’re taking a look at 5 tracks about Jesus Christ. 1. Kanye West – Jesus Walks (from The College Dropout) …
Sampleface Five: Dub Music Samples
If you were hoping for a post on dubstep, you might want to look elsewhere. This is about dub music, an offshoot of reggae music originating in the 1960s but since developing into its own identity. It first began as a general sound centred around instrumental remixes of existing reggae tracks, where they were sonically reshaped and the focus was mainly …
Sampleface Five: Classical Music Samples
We look at five great classical music samples from the likes of Slum Village, Nas and Big Pun.
