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.
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As genre defining classics go it’s hard to look past Marvin Gaye’s Ain’t no Mountain High Enough as a candidate for an exemplary Motown soul song.
I love the blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and during 2016 they posted a series of short articles titled Dancing music in the C20, expertly detailing the lineage of dance music during the 20th Century through some of the more and less obvious music genres.
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.
As a music technology teacher it’s often useful to go through a track in its entirety as a case study. Normally using your own music makes the most sense as you have access to all the stems and have prior knowledge of the sound design, chord progression choices, where samples are taken from etc.