Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘samples’

The World’s Most Important 6-Sec Drum Loop

This brilliant twenty-minute video is about the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music. It became the foundation for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second sample that gave birth to several entire subcultures.

Huge List Of Music Databases

Some of my favorites:

Wikipedia Musical Genre: User built info for all genres.
Ishkur Electronic Music: Guide to electronic music & sample database.
Discogs.com: Record labels, artists and releases.
MusicBrainz.org: Music metadata tag creator.
Weirdomusic.com: Strange, wacky, odd, and just plain bizarre music.
Mutopia: Free sheet music archives.
Indie- Friendly Radio: Stations accepting indie artists.
Musipedia: Search notation & melodies.
GuitarGeek: Guitar rig database
mvdbase.com: [...]