Sample Based songs

If your parents indulged you with children's stories as a kid, chances are you know the story and orchestral piece called "Peter and The Wolf." Rapper...

To write about anything other than my own experience feels a little strange. I am no maven on the matters of the world or the affairs of other people,...

Flamingosis is a master producer of new-school downtempo funk, and “Cosmic Feeling” makes it easy to see why. Notably his first musical release of 202...

You know the drill, short songs get short write ups. Does that mean then that medium length tracks get medium length reviews? I guess that would mean ...

"Nothing In Return" is electro-soul debut from Toronto-based Monsune. The singer/songwriter/producer has put together a groovy old school soul track w...

Today is a good day. I feel great, how about you? Just took a bike ride outside in gray, chilled weather. Detroit is almost ready for spring, and I'm ...

Ok. It's a simple crunchy, acoustic hip-hop beat. Simple, but far from trash, despite the artist's moniker. Recognize the loop? Same vocal that m o a...

I know we're not super fond of blowing up pop artists here on the Shuffle, but how in the world can we ignore such a lo-fi, funk-tastic edit of "Bitch...

Wanted to put this song on the Shuffle. While it's from 2002, it's been one of those favorites of mine that live in the background, sometimes forgotte...

Birocratic is a multi-instrumentalist beat maker based out of Brooklyn, NY. His beats are soulful, expertly crafted, and built to suit many variations...

Snoh Aalegra is a vocalist we've mentioned before, but "Sometimes" is the first time she has truly caught my ear. The original tune off her album FEE...

Jazz. We don't do that very much on The Shuffle.  It is my understanding that Oct 10th 2017 was Thelonious Munk's 100th birthday. In light of that, p...

Nothing too deep about this track. Killer vibes though. Great use of that sample. Los Angeles based Kling and Hubrex seem to be doing some cool thing...

We're almost at Friday and there is no time to be fucking around with bad vibes. The second this started playing I knew that one, I had soiled my loin...

When I stumbled on this song by Swedish producer Sune, the phrase that instantly came to mind was "fake it until you make it." For some context, I'm ...

Ryo Arimura, the Kyoto-based face behind In The Blue Shirt, does some of the most intricate micro sampling I've heard. Rivaling Pogo's work or Porter ...

"A 06 Gold And Silver" is short enough to be an outro or an interlude, but that doesn't mean it isn't worthy of a shuffle post.  Jonwayne has packed ...