We run a weekly online beat challenge, and March 24th 2013 we’ll start doing live beat-making session …

After a multitude of dancehall acapellas were suggested and rejected we ended up on this lovely Bahamadia …

A very popular sample and some excellent flips. You want info on the sample, huh? Sure, tell …

It’s kinda hard not to love this sample: it got a lovely soft opening, light vocals and …

Loving this koto-driven funk number. Straight to the music, huh? And i’ll be using the standard soundcloud …

We stole from the compeitiotn that was running by 2dope boys/MHz, and boy, i’m glad we did. …

A hard(ish) psych monster aided by being split track: left & right channels, when split, give you …

So as an experiment, we tried to take a whole acapella album and remix it. People picked …

Snack One Vibes Antagonist/ Soufian KK / Ruby Soufian again Needles Arm Fall Off Boy Ian / …

I dunno why i switched title format. Did you notice? Nah. Travis / Ill Cosby Krzysztof Aro …

What i know about this would fit into a fly’s back pocket. It’s sneaky, suspenseful and has …

Lovely acapella for this week: GZA’s Fame. And WOW did it set the guys off on hyperdrive… …

I know very little about this sample other than that it must have been from a film …

The cover of this track alone is worth flipping, but this lovely track from ghana is sweet …

Finally we do an acapella for SSC… and with AZ, Raekwon and Ghostface, it was bound to …

We usually get some good samples to choose from, but this week there was gem after gem …

From the score of 1973 film Thunderfist… it sounds like a bad sample cliche, but it’s actually …

Sun Ra week was always going to be madcap, and we were always build for travelling the …

Sample blah blah blah, nice smooth jazzy feel, blah blah… listen below, lots of very nice cuts. …

I’m not certain that this is the name of the song, but it’s the cover on the …

I can’t remember the exact details, but i was nervous about this sample and as ever, i …

The chosen track for our Africa theme; this humid, drifting Ethiopian jazz is stunning and rich with …

Duck Alert – being the nugget that he is – suggested this as the sample for our …

Japanese koto funk. Yeah, we roll like that. In fairness, we have a bit of a Japanese …

Travis kindly sorted it out this week. Not that it’s an excuse for not knowing much about …

Calm, quiet, with a bunch of clean sounds and some nice breaks. Leeks like Fiddy did the …

1976 cut from her “This is Niecy’ album: this slow jam glitters like gold, with chimes and …

Orchestral stabs, easy beat, vocal layers… lots to play with. Well, that’s what I thought at first. …

What is it with Japanese samples? they just have the crunchers pull out A-game every time. This …

So some of the SSC cats took it upon themselves to do a little 24 hours microflip …

Deep, moody little action thriller with real 90s New York style breaks… it’s amazing that this hasn’t …

I really didn’t like the sound of this last Brazilian thing at first, but there were a …

The album says on the front “Elctronic musical impressions of the occult”. I mean, how creepy 70′s …

Something very familiar about this… yeah, it’s similar to several other samples. We dig a little samba, …

Something about this got the best out of people. It was a sample that didn’t make the …

An absolute fire-cracker of a sample, this bollyhood heavyweight had ‘big beat’ written all over it. Apparently …

The Chordettes had a very particular sound, which really lends itself to chops. I couldn’t resist this …

This track means a lot to me, or it did at the time. I couldn’t stop listening …

Dope water-dripping magnificence & heavy breaks on this ’70s film score style jazzy track from Belgium. Get …

A mellow 70′s Argentinian folky funk thing. Lots of interesting flex on this. Banda Kando7 / Neils …

This one was that was suggested by Soufian (aka Vibes Antagonist) a few months back, wasn’t selected …

Reading the comments on youtube it seems that Necro sampled this on “light my fire”. Then the …

Four tracks in one, all part of a performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This includes Call …

One year old and this is a beauty of a sample. Frank’s Sinatra’s “it was a very …

I try to be rigorous about this: post up some suggestions for samples, get feedback, select the …

It being a reason for a bit of a celebration – 50 weeks, no less – the …

I told people that it was gonna be BIG and I didn’t lie. Oh, and if i …

So this was the sample that got a lot more votes than the main SSC#48 joint, and …

There was controversy this week. A different sample got the most votes, but i decided that this …

SLow, light, quite a lot of repetition, but it did have some nice sounds, drifting voices and …

A sample-chopper’s delight. Isolated sounds, smooth lone instruments and chords, strings, xylophones, guitar riffs, pianos and harpschords… …

I always thing that it’s really cheesy when a producer uses certain world sounds: i imagine that …

I think that we’ve used a track by this guy before. He used to be in the …

just a quick little flip with one of whitney’s tracks as a little tribute. most of the …

No vote this week: i heard this and knew it had to be the sample. Light on …

I really have no idea what the title means or anything about this. I could find out …

Last day of January and a bunch of us were online voting for this weeks sample. The …

Really, this has to be one of the best samples I’ve had the pleasure of crunching for …

Jagged, full of suspense, pretty light on beats but full of hot sounds. The plan was to …

Probably the most universally loved sample we’ve had in a while… there was no fussing or fighting, …

Sometimes that samples that we don’t choose deserve a little love. Add to that an insatiable addiction …

I know nothing about this sample, apart form the fact that it’s tight, soulful 80s soul with …

Don’t you just love that time between christmas and new years? it’s time for little projects, soting …

Dark, sharp Christmas carol, full of rich vocal layers… the brief for this weeks sample was simple …

You don’t get many samples as simple and as clean as this.. Yasushige Utsunomiya’s Short Stories. I …

It was the sample we argued over last week and for the first time i’m bringing a …

Cold classic here, featured in the Breakdance movie (yeah, i’m that old) and everyone love it. I …

Is this the sweetest sample we’ve seen on SSC in recent months? Hip hop purists will rightly …

At first I thought this was the version of the Bach track by Walter/Wendy Carlos, but turns …

What seemed like a lovely choice from Richard P saved us from a clutch of weird-ass synths …

At first we had a different video and didn’t know who it was. Annoyingly, i found out …

I wasn’t a fan of this sample, but the beats turned out good. If you check over …

The picture is pretty much unrelated, aside from being a fox bat. but i don’t think that …

Everyone really liked this weeks sample, from Planete Sauvage. I can’t be bothered to tell you much …

Another sample gem this week. Michel Colombier‘s Thème de L’ALPAGUEUR is a typical piano & brass driven …

It was a very hot sample – Claude Perraudin’s Tremplin (1980) – that a lot of people …

SSC#23 shaped up to be a bit of a classic. Skan choose the sample, and after a …

I’ll just copy in the paragraph from Wikipedia on this track: In particular, their 1975 song “Rock …

There was literally one suggestion for this weeks sample, all agreed straight away that it was a …

Seriously heavy, utterly addictive, slightly tropical, messy, deep African groove from my fav new funk discovery. I …

By now we’ve stopped putting the samples out to vote, so whoever is online on Facebook on …

I’m not a fan of the saxophone, and the words ‘funky saxophone’ make me want to break …

Big, brassy JB’s grooves for this week. A sample you are sure that you’ve heard before, but …

a ten minute, quick-switch gallop through weeks 11-15 blazes through around 30 tracks from a stack of …

I’ve been suggesting this track for a while, partly for wind Duck up, and to push the …

We’ve gone library music crazy at SSC, and this week is a real class act from 70′s …

Classic sample territory with Mass Production’s ‘I don’t want to know’. This 10-piece funk troupe has a …

This dirty little italian eclectro library break, featuring the arp synth by Alberta Balden AKA Blue Marvin …

For the first time we decided to use a sample pack that I put together: you can …

The french have a good history in library sounds and Camille Sauvage is one of the best …

A compilation of the tracks from weeks 6-10. This time i loosened up the format a little …

More classic library sounds from the 60′s. I’d never heard of the artist, but it turns out …

Is this one of the illest samples we had had to this point? Certainly MiS’s selection of …

I don’t think that anyone even liked this weeks sample, apart from maybe Monster Matt because it’s …

With the news of Gil Scott Heron’s death being a big talking topic on DT, we knew …

Bootsy Collins giving a bass lesson made for a pretty awkward joint to snip: vocals all the …

A compilation of weeks 1-5: just 16 bars or so of each track as a reference, with …

A synch nerd testing an old moog was the main sample this week, but we fannied around …

a collection of 60′s TV themes was the video for this week, with most of us using …

Originally, the ‘winner’ from last week choose the sample for the next week. Sickle choose this beauty …

We didn’t realise at the time that this sample was a Henry Mancini track – I took …

The first sample for SSC was an inspired choice by Cheeseburglar; Malaysian singer/actress Sarena Hashim with Kenangan …

If you’re seeing this for the latest sample, it means that i’m lazy and haven’t updated the …