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WhoSampled x Wax Poetics: Notorious BIG ‘Ready to Die’ 20th Anniversary Mixtape
This Saturday (13th September) marks the 20th Anniversary of the release of one of hip hop’s all time classic albums, The Notorious BIG‘s seminal Bad Boy Records debut LP ‘Ready to Die’. In...
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D’Angelo: Sample Retrospective Top 5
14 years have passed since D’Angelo dropped his sophomore masterpiece ‘Voodoo’, the critically acclaimed follow up to 1996’s ‘Brown Sugar’. With the exception of occasional features (see...
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Aphex Twin’s Unreleased Soundcloud Dump
For a man who seems to have perfected the art of teasing his fanbase, it’s somewhat incredible that it has taken this long for Richard D. James to join Soundcloud. Over the past couple of weeks, Aphex...
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Celebrate George Clinton’s Birthday with a Playlist of his Most Sampled Tracks
Today, being friend of the site George Clinton‘s 74th birthday, we’re celebrating the occasion with a pair of playlists: The first contains the Top 10 most sampled tracks from one of the most sampled...
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N.W.A ‘100 Miles & Runnin’ 25th Anniversary: Samples Playlist
Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the release of N.W.A‘s ‘100 Miles and Runnin’ EP. The 5 track EP was the group’s first release following the acrimonious split from former group member Ice Cube who...
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The Game ‘Documentary 2’ / ‘Documentary 2.5’ [Samples Playlists]
October 9th saw the release of The Game‘s long awaited ‘Documentary 2’, a sequel to 2005’s largely Dre produced ‘The Documentary‘. In a year that has seen Compton back on the map thanks to Kendrick,...
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Sample Based Music On Track For Grammy Wins
Nominations for the 58th Grammy awards have been announced and it’s looking like sample based music is set to clean up once again. Nominated in the coveted ‘Record of the Year’ category are D’Angelo’s...
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The Top 10 Most Popular Samples of 2015
2015 has been another incredible year for sample based music with the return of some legends (Dr. Dre & D’Angelo both delivered the comeback albums we thought we might never see), some eagerly...
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Top 10 Samples of 2015: Staff Picks
Following on from our recent rundown of the year’s most popular samples of 2015 (as selected by visitors to the site), we thought we should also highlight some of our personal favorite tracks and...
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In Memory of Leon Haywood: His Influence in Playlists
We were sorry to learn of the death of much sampled Leon Haywood earlier this week, aged 74. Haywood’s recording career of around 20 years spanning the 60s, 70s and 80s included stints playing with...
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