Aaron Velasquez has been workin’ on a groovy thing. The 26-year-old New Jersey-based producer, better known as Flamingosis, steadily peddles sample-based groove and hip hop-influenced tracks, and his ...

It's time to take it old school, as we get on the good foot and bring you a selection of stone cold funk samples. We've got beats, bass and guitar loops, all of which are bursting with groove. The ...

In this edition of SampleRadar, we're getting our funk on, and it's all about the keys: organs, electric pianos and synths. The collection is part loops, part chord hits. The loops are in the ...

In the second volume of this compilation of this supposedly ephemeral sound you can hear snatches of a potential sonic future emerging from the sedimented pop culture muck of the past. Save this story ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...