Synthetic Substitution; A Pretty Break

This week we are paying our respects to the late great Melvin Bliss, and his classic track SYNTHETIC SUBSTITUTION… This track has been sampled for decades, by some of the best of the best in Hip Hop.  Check out Tuesday’s post for a more comprehensive list.  I’d be foolish to not give credit for the [...]

Superman Break

This week on the 7 o’clock sample, we have been exploring movie and TV theme music… There is a laundry list of TV themes that have been sampled by Rap and Electronic acts.  Some of my favorites include the Knight Rider Theme, Inspector Gadget, Theme From BattleStar Galatica, and even the Fat Albert Theme.  But [...]

Oh Amerie!

This week’s Seven O Clock Sample continues or exploration of the Meters… ( great pic huh?) This particular sample was a surprise to me.  I remember when this track came out, I had NO idea the funky drum break was a Meters sample… That’s a hot track!  It was produced by Rich Harrison, and Rich [...]

Clap Yo’ Hands

This week on the Seven O Clock sample, we are exploring the music of THE METERS! There are VERY few gentlemen in this world as funky as Art, George, Joe, and Leo.  These four men are responsible for an entire sub-genre of American R&B music.  Their catalog spans 4 decades of Funky music.  They’ve played [...]

A Crusade for Beats.

Today’s Seven O Clock sample is going to go in sample the Hall Of Fame.  It’s a great original and a great rework. This week we are exploring the sounds of the Chemical Brothers… Tom and Ed are not afraid to grab a funky loop to sample, and in today’s example, they rework the sample [...]

Chemical Funk

This week on the Seven O’Clock Sample, we are exploring the music of the CHEMICAL BROTHERS! Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons began creating music together in the early 1990s.  As DJs, they were drawn to the multilayered sample styles of American Hip Hop and when they found themselves running out of tracks to spin, they began [...]

Don’t Sleep On | The Soulphonics and Ruby Velle

You know what happens when you stay up all night looking for new music?  You discover something really special, and that special is Atlanta’s Soulphonics and Ruby Velle. While I was writing the previous post on The Constellations, I saw this intriguing name of The Soulphonics and Ruby Velle on the list of people The [...]

Jurassic and Ike

It’s been over a week since I last posted a 7 o Clock sample blog. With the fund drive last week, I wanted to go over some of the best sample examples we’ve seen over the past season, so I opted not to re-post those. But it’s a new week, and time for some new [...]

Amen Brother… The world’s most important drum break!

Who would have ever thought the B side of a funk 45 would go on to become such an important part of Hip Hop and electronic music. The WINSTONS released a grammy award winning single in 1969 entitled “Color Him Father”. The song was one of the top 100 R&B cuts in the that year, [...]

88Nine Introduces The Saturday Session

Saturday nights at 10 on 88Nine RadioMilwaukee, it’s the Saturday Session – the soundtrack to your Saturday night. Every week, a brand new mix from one of Milwaukee’s hottest DJs. This week, we’re broadcasting live from The Mad Planet in River West for The Get Down.  Andy Noble, Brent Goodsell and Nesh spin vintage funk, [...]