Music News Pro Audio Blipblox Raises Over $266K on Kickstarter to Launch myTRACKS by Happy Blipblox myTRACKS, hit its fundraising goal in a mere 15 minutes and went on to raise over $266k USD in a month-long crowdfunding campaign Developing and mass-producing a unique electronic…
Clocked News In upcoming game ‘Season’, you’re field recording the apocalypse by M. Scott Armed with a microphone and a bicycle, set out on a melancholic journey to capture the world’s last moments of peace in upcoming game Season. The third-person, minimalist styled game…
Clocked Interviews How Mashd N Kutcher built a track entirely from video game samples by Tom Cameron Mashd N Kutcher have teamed up with Turtle Beach to smoosh together a collection of gaming sounds, from the click of a mechanical keyboard to the firing of a gun…
Features Pro Audio The masterful musical thievery of Daft Punk by Happy Daft Punk were masters of sampling and Discovery was their masterpiece. But did they cross that line between thievery and adaption for art’s sake? Did they go too far? by…
Clocked Lists 20 famous songs and the iconic video games they sampled by Tom Cameron Since they first hit the world, video games have served as inspiration for countless musicians. These 20 tracks paid homage to the art form by sampling in-game music or SFX….
Features Pro Audio Examining the role of orchestral sample libraries in modern production by Josh Davies Orchestral sample libraries are becoming more and more an essential part of modern music production. Take a look behind the scenes at how they work. Have you ever wondered where…
News Library of Congress creates royalty-free sampling tool for hip-hop artists by James Peppercorn In an unprecedented move, the Library of Congress have opened up their vaults of audio collections for producers. The recordings cover a wide array of material with some of the…
Music Gil Scott-Heron comes full circle with Makaya McCraven’s ‘We’re New Again’ by Claudia Schmidt Gil Scott-Heron released I’m New Here in 2010. It may seem strange for an artist considered so influential – he’s often thought to be the first MC – to release…
News Billie Eilish sampled a Sydney pedestrian crossing in ‘bad guy’ by Claudia Schmidt Everything is coming up Billie Eilish at the moment. The American singer recently cleaned up at the Grammy Awards – taking home a whopping six awards, including that of Best…
Interviews Captain Earwax chats his new album, ancient folk music, and production processes by Sarah Gillard Captain Earwax is the musical moniker of Australian multidisciplinary artist Daniel O’Toole. His latest album Volcano Toast is a stunning masterwork of dense, intricate, and texturally gorgeous instrumental beats, combined with the…
Features Pro Audio The Fairlight CMI: an orchestra in a box that rewrote electronic music by Max Mahood In the late 1970s, right here in Sydney, there was an auditory revolution that was being developed by two men, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, that would eventually help to…
News Watch WhoSampled.com’s Chris Read give a 30-minute lecture on the history of sampling by Happy As part of an ongoing event at Point Blank Music School in London, Chris Read has given a 30-minute workshop detailing the history of sampling. Read is a DJ, producer,…
Music Milo – A Toothpaste Suburb by Shayen de Silva A few months ago I wrote piece on an emerging rapper from Chicago known in the hip-hop community as Milo, and at the time I lamented that I didn’t get to write about…
