Sonic Swagger: The Best Samples Left Naked in Hip-Hop
Sample-flipping is a music production art capable of creating mega-hits, but what happens when songs leave original samples completely bare?
Sample-flipping is a music production art capable of creating mega-hits, but what happens when songs leave original samples completely bare?
We count down and break down our ten favorite hip-hop beats of 2018 to find out what’s going on inside them and why they’re still so good.
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Alright songwriters and song-guzzlers alike, strap on your boots for a knowledge voyage with more divergent rectangles than the NYC skyline: that’s right, the top pop charters have now become 2017’s top pop graphed. The Top 40 song charters that is, but why 40? Well, besides this number’s significance in pop music as a result of […]
It’s getting a little ridiculous now. Too much great, new music is coming out every single week, and it’s tough to keep up. And since we here at Soundfly HQ can be found, most weeks, grooving out to the new, freshly composed, produced, and mixed sounds of our talented students alongside all the commercially released […]
For the past two years, I’ve celebrated my favorite holiday by photoshopping turkey legs in place of microphones. The conceit being — naturally — that singing looks like eating. But no more! Because you know what else singing looks like? Yelling. And what do we inevitably spend this holiday doing (or wishing we were doing)? Yelling […]