Archive for the 'Beats' Category
Enter(tain) the meatmarket
I’m not a huge fan of house music, but Sampleslaya - Enter the meat market from house legend Armand Van Helden is a turntablist / producer / DJs dream. It integrates catchy and funky beats produced amongst classic hip hop samples that can be used by DJ’s / producers spinning hip hop, house or straight up funky turntablism (an album worthy of owning doubles of! Juggle it up!!). Check it out on Amazon to listen to some of the tracks.
It doesn’t seem so easy to find on vinyl but if you look hard enough you will find (I just stumbled across this in a Brooklyn record store after looking for years and almost giving up hope - actually I found it on gemm.com but it was a bit pricey. The copy I picked up was mint with a slightly damaged cover - for only US$5).
All the breaks you can poke a needle at
This site has got to be one of the most useful resources for all you crate diggers out there. The-Breaks AKA the rap sample FAQ is a leading website with a huge database of hip hop, rap, funk, soul, jazz and reggae tracks conveniently archived for easy search. Anyone visiting the site can search for their favourite artist or song and it will output all the sampled artists in that track. You can also search in reverse to see which hip hop artists sampled a certain track/artist. This is awesome if you want to find the original tracks to hip hop songs so you can put your own spin on it or rock the crowd with some funky old beats. I guess the hard part is then finding it on vinyl (unless you use Serato Scratch or Final Scratch…). Make sure you check out The-Breaks.com to be in the know!
