Much More Dilla

This morning we are continuing or exploration of J Dilla samples… In the mid and later 200os, the entire rap world was buzzing about Dilla’s beat tapes.  As many producers often do, J Dilla would give out “tapes” of his beats for Emcees to preview and hopefully, buy.  In order to avoid his beats getting [...]

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 [...]

That Young MC is one bad mother… SHUT YO MOUTH!

Our theme on 7 o’clock sample this week, is TV and MOVIE Theme music! ( mixing it up on the ONEs and TWOs ) There are a lot of great TV and Movie themes that have been sampled; JAWS, Knight Rider, Fat Albert Theme, even Inspector Gadget has been run through a drum machine. This [...]

I Know You Got Samples

This week’s 7′oclock sample theme is SAMPLE WITH SOUL! And few brothers have as much soul as Mr. BOBBY BYRD… Bobby is the man who discovered James Brown.  Byrd and Brown met in a Georgia youth detention facility, where Brown was an inmate. Byrd’s local baseball team played the prison team of which Brown was a [...]

I Hear Curtis!

This week on 7 o’clock sample,we are looking at SAMPLES WITH SOUL! It’s been a while since I pulled out some old soul records, so I thought this week we would look at SAMPLES WITH SOUL. To begin, I thought I’d get a track from Hip Hop’s sample whipping boy, BIZ MARKIE. In 1991, Biz [...]

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 [...]

Don’t Sleep On: Quadron

For the last couple of years, Swedish artist have been dominating my personal playlists.  Now it looks like Sweden’s neighbor to the south, Denmark, is trying to squeeze in. The Danish duo is named Quadron, and I first heard of them through our fam over at The Couch Sessions. Quadron’s sound is what I would [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Dirty Soul Mix

My thanks to Tarik Moody for inviting me to be his guest on last week’s Rhythm Lab. I was able to dig into my dusty, deep funk 45s and put together a 1 hour Dirty Soul Mix. Check it out and I hope you enjoy!