Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that ...

It didn’t take long for Clyde Stubblefield to start hating his greatest creation. The 20-second drum break, which he first played in a Cincinnati studio near the end of an exhausting 1969 tour with ...

French philosopher Jacques Derrida created a term called iterability, focused around how the idea of "quotation" is both repetition and a deletion of repetition. A quotation is an exact mimic of an ...

Dylan Wissing is a session drummer with a passion for meticulously duplicating famous rhythms. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Dylan Wissing has been making a living as a versatile session drummer since the ...

WhoSampled, based on the popular website of the same name, helps you connect the musical present to the past by displaying the songs that are used as parts of other songs. You can search for samples ...

The man known as James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” passed away over the weekend. Clyde Stubblefield, who created one of the most sampled drum breaks in music, died of kidney failure Saturday (Feb. 18), ...

James Brown released a seven-inch single called Funky Drummer in March, 1970 – a loosely arranged jam session showcasing the talent for improvisation of drummer Clyde Stubblefield, who was employed in ...

Believe it or not, there was a time when drummers weren't paid properly for their samples, in fact they weren't paid at all! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Every musical generation tends to put forth a handful of "star players" within any given genre. Whether it be Los Angeles' Wrecking Crew or Motown's Funk Brothers, certain cliques of industry ...

Clyde Stubblefield, whose 20-second drum break to open James Brown's 1970 single "Funky Drummer" became one of hip-hop's most popular samples, died Saturday, Rolling Stone reported. He was 73. His ...

MADISON, Wis. — Clyde Stubblefield, whose 20-second drum break to open James Brown's 1970 single "Funky Drummer" became one of hip-hop's most popular samples, died Saturday, Rolling Stone reported. He ...