First of all, apologies for not posting this sooner. I would like to say that I was busy. But it turns out, I’m just pretty absent minded sometimes. Shout out to @surfacescan for getting me back on track.
Anyway, this time around, I don’t have a theme exactly. This one is about time periods.
Something that I’ve thought about every now and then is how often we reach back to the 60s, 70s, and 80s to source our samples. And that’s about as true today as it was back in the 80s and 90s when most of us started getting interested in hip-hop and other sample based music. At the time, those songs would have been maybe 10 or 20 years old. But songs that are 20 years old now would have come out in 2006.
So here’s my challenge. I want everyone to make some beats based off of samples that are no more than 20 years old. To that end, if you want to enter, post up a song from no earlier than 2006. I don’t want to put any hard limits on what kinds of songs to post except to say that they should be tracks that aren’t themselves built around samples. But other than that, any genre is fine.
So here are the rules:
You must post a song to sample in the thread. That song must have been released no earlier than the year 2006.
To make your beat, you can use any song in the thread, even your own. But you must use at least one song that another person has posted.
You can also use any drums you want. Any kits you want to use are fine. Drum samples from records are exempt from the year requirement. So if you want to loop up Impeach the President, that is perfectly fine.
Any other instruments that you want to add are fine, as long as you play them. So if you want to lay down some synth chords or something, you can do that. You just can’t, for example, use a synth loop you found on splice, or something you found on a record that’s not in this thread.
You can use an acapella if you want. But your acapella also needs to be from a record released no earlier than 2006.
Your beat should be no longer than 3 minutes.
Once you’re done, you can dm it to me. Please include your name in the subject.
Deadline: August 3rd
I will start. Here’s a cool track that my youtube algorithm bestowed on me a little while back that I like a lot:
