Even if you don’t recognise the name Misirlou you will know the melody. It has been covered well over a hundred times and sampled to death.
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It’s been called the most important six second drum loop, it’s virtually spawned an entire genre, it’s subject to much debate in all corners of the internet from the legal ins-and-outs to how best to chop it up.
Get Down Saturday Night was a 1983 hit for Oliver Cheatham written by himself and Kevin McCord and released on MCA Records, peaking at #38 in the UK singles chart that year.
With my drafts folder brimming with 80% finished long-reads I thought it a neat idea to get out a really quick recreation of a classic Ibiza house record.
Ridley Scott’s 1982 Cyberpunk film-noir adaptation of the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? changed science fiction forever. Similarly to how Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey had done previously, and how later The Matrix would, the genre could never be the same after Blade Runner.
Taken from their 1974 Light of Worlds album, Summer Madness is perhaps one of Kool and the Gang’s coolest tracks in a slew of well known dancefloor fillers.
The Fat of the Land was the Prodigy’s third album, and a huge commercial success. Released in 1997, I still remember buying it on cassette and taking it home to listen to for the first time (there were no leaks or previews in those days!)
Reese bass is an often-confused term that crops up in dance music production usually within the jungle and Drum’n’Bass communities, but can be found in glitch hop, bass-house, dubstep and virtually any genre that is obsessed with bass.
Aphex Twin is the moniker of Richard D. James, a Cornwall native whose output spans three decades, releasing on such labels as Apollo (R&S’s ambient sister label), his own imprint, Replhex and of course British indie Warp.
My production partner and myself have just completed our second sample pack together for Sample Magic and Splice titled French House 2. In this article I want to take a quick look in some detail at some of the production techniques that went into it.