Tag: sampling
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Bob James on those that sampled him
Ian Fondue directed me to this video with legend Bob James – creator of classic and much-sampled tracks like Nautilus, Angela, Westchester Lady, Take Me To The Mardi Gras – those RunDMC bells and many others. It’s an advert for a sample clearing service Tracklib but fascinating having him talk about these samples – and…
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RIP Vaugh Mason and Bill Withers
Two pioneers have recently died – the first many probably won’t know by name but they definitely know the sample – Vaughn Mason of Bounce, Rock. Skate, Roll fame as sampled by Daft Punk many times, The Avalanches, De La Soul, Digital Underground, Kurtis Blow and just about EVERYONE – see the Whosampled list of…
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Keep Tracking
A great video and basically this is how I produced my early music tracks 30 years ago! I had a Yamaha Portasound 160 and later 590, but my first keyboard was very similar to the one in this video without the fun synth waves. That said, later I had OctaMED and I think a version…
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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We Are Not Your Friends
Blah blah, stupid film ‘We Are Your Friends’ about DJing and EDM, blah blah has no idea about anything (‘A laptop and some talent’? Did they speak to Simon Cowell about his new project?), blah blah, someone remixed it to be more truthful. (via Ian Fondue) I mean 128bpm? WTF? Let me let you into…
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I own hip hop, and you do too
Another day, another person having a go at Iggy Azalea. I’m not opposed to that, she’s an awful pop rapper, but then again it’s that hypocrite Q-Tip trying to lecture a rather skewed picture of hip hop history, pretty sure him and Tribe were middle class kids from Queens? Anyway I’m sure those that grew…