It’s Halloween in some parts of the world and our local all hallows eve is just around the corner (on Saturday). So in a celebration of ghosts and such, here is a goths sampled in techno and a horror theme sampled by a masked woman. Everybody should guess that Jacko’s Thriller has been sampled on [...]

On this episode of Samplebusters we meet two North-Americans, some British lads and an Italian. We start off with one of the founding fathers of hi-NRG (the old one), Bobby O, producer and solo artist. He had produced, during his still ongoing career, Pet Shop Boys, Divine and The Flirts, among others. Some say he [...]

This is a repost to the previous one. The vocal sample from Phats & Small – Turn Around is of course from Toney Lee’s feel-good classic “Reach Up” Toney Lee – Reach Up (Mediafire 320k)

I thought I’d make a guest appearance on this post series with some epic sampling madness: Man Alive by Devilfish uses the famous chord loop from Inner City’s Good Life as well as the breakbeat loop from Grooveyard’s Watch Me Now, which in turn has a funky sample from It’s Just Begun by The Jimmy [...]

In this very first episode of Samplebusters we follow a path of samples and cover versions not always straight. First we head to France, which some consider the spiritual home of modern usage of sampling in house music. And I bet there were no-one who just didn’t thought of Daft Punk. You were on the [...]