SSC#55: Chevolet advert (1974) – “designings”
This one was that was suggested by Soufian (aka Vibes Antagonist) a few months back, wasn’t selected …
SSC#54: Michael Polnaref’s “Voyages”
Reading the comments on youtube it seems that Necro sampled this on “light my fire”. Then the …
SSC#53: Orchestra versions of game songs, including C.O.D & Angry Birds
Four tracks in one, all part of a performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This includes Call …
SSC#52: Frank Sinatra’s “It was a very good year”
One year old and this is a beauty of a sample. Frank’s Sinatra’s “it was a very …
SSC#51: Dalida’s “Pars”
I try to be rigorous about this: post up some suggestions for samples, get feedback, select the …
SSC#50: 10 Classic Breaks to crunch
It being a reason for a bit of a celebration – 50 weeks, no less – the …
SSC#49: You & The Explosion track from Lupin 3rd
I told people that it was gonna be BIG and I didn’t lie. Oh, and if i …
SSC#48 MICRO-FLIP: Lamont Dozier’s “Shine”
So this was the sample that got a lot more votes than the main SSC#48 joint, and …
SSC#48: Joann Garrett’s “It’s No Secret”
There was controversy this week. A different sample got the most votes, but i decided that this …
SSC#47: Tonio Rubio’s “Dead Slow”
SLow, light, quite a lot of repetition, but it did have some nice sounds, drifting voices and …
SSC#46: Thomas Crown Affair/ Chess Game
A sample-chopper’s delight. Isolated sounds, smooth lone instruments and chords, strings, xylophones, guitar riffs, pianos and harpschords… …
SSC#45: Sakura Sample, Japanese koto
I always thing that it’s really cheesy when a producer uses certain world sounds: i imagine that …
SSC#44: Brian Bennett “Image”
I think that we’ve used a track by this guy before. He used to be in the …
SSC#44 Mirco-flip: Whitney Houston “where are you”
just a quick little flip with one of whitney’s tracks as a little tribute. most of the …
SSC#43: Ananda Shakar “Night in a Forest”
No vote this week: i heard this and knew it had to be the sample. Light on …
SSC#42: Quarteto Em Cy – “Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser”
I really have no idea what the title means or anything about this. I could find out …
SSC#42 MICRO: Eternal Champion
Last day of January and a bunch of us were online voting for this weeks sample. The …
SSC#41: Darondo – “Didn’t I”
Really, this has to be one of the best samples I’ve had the pleasure of crunching for …
SSC#40 Bruno Nicolai – “Apprensioni”
Jagged, full of suspense, pretty light on beats but full of hot sounds. The plan was to …
SSC#39: Isabelle Aubret – “Casa Forte”
Probably the most universally loved sample we’ve had in a while… there was no fussing or fighting, …
SSC#38 Micro-flip: Mandingo!
Sometimes that samples that we don’t choose deserve a little love. Add to that an insatiable addiction …
SSC#38: Truth – “See You Later”
I know nothing about this sample, apart form the fact that it’s tight, soulful 80s soul with …
SSC#37: Harvey Mandel – “Cristo Redentor”
Don’t you just love that time between christmas and new years? it’s time for little projects, soting …
SSC#36: Ray Conniff – “Ring Christmas Bells”
Dark, sharp Christmas carol, full of rich vocal layers… the brief for this weeks sample was simple …
SSC#35: Yasushige Utsunomiya – “Short Stories”
You don’t get many samples as simple and as clean as this.. Yasushige Utsunomiya’s Short Stories. I …
SSC#34: Earth & Fire – “Last Seagull”
It was the sample we argued over last week and for the first time i’m bringing a …
SSC#33: Chaka Khan – “Ain’t Nobody”
Cold classic here, featured in the Breakdance movie (yeah, i’m that old) and everyone love it. I …
SSC#32: The Independents – “baby i’ve been missing you”
Is this the sweetest sample we’ve seen on SSC in recent months? Hip hop purists will rightly …
SSC#31: Switched-on Bach (Cloudhop) – Sinfonia 35
At first I thought this was the version of the Bach track by Walter/Wendy Carlos, but turns …
SSC#30: Gal Costa – “Barato Total”
What seemed like a lovely choice from Richard P saved us from a clutch of weird-ass synths …
SSC#29: Ennio Morricone – ‘Lizard in a Woman’s Skin’
At first we had a different video and didn’t know who it was. Annoyingly, i found out …
SSC#28: Breakout – “Nie znasz jeszcze życia”
I wasn’t a fan of this sample, but the beats turned out good. If you check over …
SSC#27: Roy Budd – M17 (from Foxbat)
The picture is pretty much unrelated, aside from being a fox bat. but i don’t think that …
SSC#26: Alain Goraguer – Ten Et Tiwa (from Planete Sauvage)
Everyone really liked this weeks sample, from Planete Sauvage. I can’t be bothered to tell you much …
SSC#25: Michel Colombier’s ‘Thème de L’ALPAGUEUR’
Another sample gem this week. Michel Colombier‘s Thème de L’ALPAGUEUR is a typical piano & brass driven …
SSC#24: Claude Perraudin’s Tremplin; French library funk
It was a very hot sample – Claude Perraudin’s Tremplin (1980) – that a lot of people …
SSC#23: Hwang Jin Yi ost -野花 (Ya Hwa) -ファン・ジニ
SSC#23 shaped up to be a bit of a classic. Skan choose the sample, and after a …
SSC#22: Blackbyrds – Rock Creek Park
I’ll just copy in the paragraph from Wikipedia on this track: In particular, their 1975 song “Rock …
SSC#21: Afro Cuban Band – ‘Something’s Gotta Give’
There was literally one suggestion for this weeks sample, all agreed straight away that it was a …
SSC#20: African 70s funk – a lot better than you expected
Seriously heavy, utterly addictive, slightly tropical, messy, deep African groove from my fav new funk discovery. I …
SSC#19: It’s Porn Week
By now we’ve stopped putting the samples out to vote, so whoever is online on Facebook on …
SSC#18: Saxophones are bad and belong in the 80s
I’m not a fan of the saxophone, and the words ‘funky saxophone’ make me want to break …
SSC#17: Alfred Pee Wee Ellis – ‘In The Middle’
Big, brassy JB’s grooves for this week. A sample you are sure that you’ve heard before, but …
SSC Vol3: Weeks 11-15
a ten minute, quick-switch gallop through weeks 11-15 blazes through around 30 tracks from a stack of …
SSC#16: Lionel Richie – “Hello”. Yep, that’s right. One of the best SSC’s
I’ve been suggesting this track for a while, partly for wind Duck up, and to push the …
SSC#15: Mike Vickers – “Turning Point”
We’ve gone library music crazy at SSC, and this week is a real class act from 70′s …
SSC#14: Mass Production – “I Don’t Want to Know”
Classic sample territory with Mass Production’s ‘I don’t want to know’. This 10-piece funk troupe has a …
SSC#13: El Toro on an Arp synth: Italian library sounds
This dirty little italian eclectro library break, featuring the arp synth by Alberta Balden AKA Blue Marvin …
SSC#12: Marimba Breaks & Cinema Orchestra
For the first time we decided to use a sample pack that I put together: you can …
SSC#11: Camille Sauvage – Declic
The french have a good history in library sounds and Camille Sauvage is one of the best …
SSC Vol2: Weeks 6-10
A compilation of the tracks from weeks 6-10. This time i loosened up the format a little …
SSC#10: Pierre Arvay’s “Last Night”
More classic library sounds from the 60′s. I’d never heard of the artist, but it turns out …
SSC#9: Stringtronics “Mindbender”
Is this one of the illest samples we had had to this point? Certainly MiS’s selection of …
SSC#8: Duke Ellington’s “Satin Doll”
I don’t think that anyone even liked this weeks sample, apart from maybe Monster Matt because it’s …
SSC#7: Gill Scott Heron’s “I Think I’ll Call it Morning”
With the news of Gil Scott Heron’s death being a big talking topic on DT, we knew …
SSC#6: Bootsy Collin bass lesson
Bootsy Collins giving a bass lesson made for a pretty awkward joint to snip: vocals all the …
SSC Vol1: Weeks 1-5
A compilation of weeks 1-5: just 16 bars or so of each track as a reference, with …
SSC#5: A man with a moog & Smokey Robinson’s ‘I Can’t Stand to See You Cry’
A synch nerd testing an old moog was the main sample this week, but we fannied around …
ssc#4: 60′s TV themes – lid flipped
a collection of 60′s TV themes was the video for this week, with most of us using …
SSC#3: Yvonne Fair – ‘Let Your Hair Down’
Originally, the ‘winner’ from last week choose the sample for the next week. Sickle choose this beauty …
SSC#2: Mancini’s backing to a german flick with Rachel Ward
We didn’t realise at the time that this sample was a Henry Mancini track – I took …
SSC#1: Malaysian Mash-up: Sarena Hashim
The first sample for SSC was an inspired choice by Cheeseburglar; Malaysian singer/actress Sarena Hashim with Kenangan …
