Posted on 26 February 2010. Tags: akai mpc, beatmaker, beatmaking, big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, downtempo samples, equipped music, hip hop samples, making a beat, mpc 2000xl, mpc 2500, mpc 4000, mpc 5000, mpc 60, mv 8800, native instruments maschine, smokers delight, soundsandgear.com
It’s friday…time for some fish… This week I’m checking out a library Big Fish sent over entitled “Smoker’s Relight Deux” It’s a follow up to “Smoker’s Delight” a library I’ve personally been using and continue to use since it released in 2003 If you like laid back, smoked out, jazzy hip hop…then check this out [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: beat maker, beatmaking, chopping records, chopping samples, making a beat, motion samples, native instruments maschine, soul samples, soultown 2, soultown samples
Time for another sound hound, checking out some more samples from Motion Samples, one of my favorite companies. SoulTown Samples volume 2, we already checked out SoulTown Samples vol 1, and I had a few suggestions. Let’s see what’s up with this one. What is SoulTown Samples? Just in case you don’t remember, SoulTown is [...]
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Posted on 09 February 2010. Tags: beat making, beatmaking, chopping samples, download samples, hip hop samples, making a beat, motion samples, motionsamples.com, native instruments maschine, underground samples
I know it’s been a minute since we reviewed anything from Motion Samples but it’s that time again. Today I’m checking out something that is sure to spark some interest among the underground, organic, hip hop lovers. I’m talking about Hip Hop Genetics…let’s see whasup Back to the foundations with Hip Hop Genetics No matter [...]
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Posted on 21 December 2009. Tags: beat maker, beatmaking, chopping records, chopping samples, making a beat, motion samples, native instruments maschine, soul samples
This one’s been a long time coming. Motion sent over soultown samples over a month ago, I’m just now getting to it. Basically, this is for those that still love that sound of hip hop created with samples, chopped up soul and funk or whatever..they way it sounds chopped together. Motion put together a collection [...]
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Posted on 17 December 2009. Tags: beat maker, beat making video, beatmaking, electro drum samples, hip hop drum samples, making a beat, native instruments maschine, sonic specialists, sonicspecialist, soundsandgear.com, urban electro, urban fire drums
Yall know me, I love drums. I’m super critical when it comes to drum samples and I never feel like you can have enough. When it comes to commercial, radio ready, pristine sounding drums…only a couple names constantly come up. Sonic Specialists is one such name. I first heard about them a few years back, [...]
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Posted on 03 December 2009. Tags: akai mpc, beat maker, beat thang, beatmaking, chopping samples, making a beat, making beats, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500, mpc 4000, mpc 500, mv 8000, mv 8800, native instruments maschine, native instruments maschine review, native maschine, roland mv, soundsandgear
Native Instruments Maschine KILLS my MPC 4000, period. Okay, so you’ve seen me using it in a lot of my videos and such, and I’ve had it for a few months ever since NI sent it to me back in August or so to review, with the official 1.1 update out I’m finally giving you [...]
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