DJ BC is my favorite mashup artist right now. He deserves the nod just for Snoop’s Nu Shooz:
Filed in Autobio, Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Key Musicians, Music, Sampling
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Also tagged bangles, beatles, brian eno, danger mouse, dj bc, dj earworm, hip-hop, jay-z, linkedin, mashups, mia, nu shooz, pop, Sampling, snoop dogg, soundcloud
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Music blogs, magazines and cable channels like to run lists of the best albums of all time. Certain albums get listed again and again: Sgt Pepper, Pet Sounds, Highway 61 Revisited. If you were to compile the best albums as measured by how often they get sampled by hip-hop producers, the list would look very [...]
Filed in Music, Sampling
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Also tagged big daddy kane, blondie, de la soul, digging the crates, epmd, eric b & rakim, fu-schnickens, funk, hammond organ, ice cube, janelle monae, krs-one, mary j blige, memes, mohawks, onyx, Sampling, soul, uk
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This post isn’t about Obama. I love Obama. I’m talking about a classic breakbeat, the opening few seconds of “Impeach The President” by the Honey Drippers, and the president in question is Nixon.
Filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Music, Sampling
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Also tagged big daddy kane, biz markie, de la soul, digable planets, digging the crates, drumming, eric b & rakim, funk, hip-hop, honey drippers, mick jagger, nas, nice & smooth, notorious big, Sampling, slick rick, soul
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Turntablists use record players to play records in ways they weren’t meant to be played. By speeding up, slowing down and reversing the record under the needle, a whole universe of new sounds becomes possible. The record player as musical instrument is still in its early stages of development. DJs already invented the instrumental sound [...]
Filed in Hardware, Improvisation, Interfaces, Music, Sampling
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Also tagged a tribe called quest, afrika bambaataa, apache, dj, dj premier, funky drummer, grand mixer dst, grandmaster flash, herbie hancock, hip-hop, Improvisation, looping, mashups, music notation, peter piper, rahzel, remixes, rhythm, rockit, run-dmc, Sampling, scratch, turntablism, visualization
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