Samplesound Blog

Music Trends 2025: Emerging Styles and Genres of This Year

Best Techno Sample Packs for Professional Music Production

As a music producer, coming up with your own sounds from scratch can be a real headache, especially in a genre like techno where there is hardly any room for even the slightest of errors. We here at Samplesound have come up with a list of top 6 Techno sample packs to help you through your selection crisis.

5 of the Best Tech House Sample Packs in 2020

2020 may have been a year of confinement in our homes, but that doesn’t mean the party stopped! Let’s end this year with a bang by producing some of the finest music from the best 5 tech house samples of 2020!

How To Make Afro House Music

In order to understand how to make Afro House music, we first need to come to grips with exactly what it is. So, what is Afro House music? Well, simply put, Afro House music is a subgenre of house music.It contains a wide range of variations from tribal house, deep house, and the beautiful sounds of soulful music.

Great Tape Emulations from Retro to Sci-Fi

For all of the convenience and flexibility of digital recording, there remains a solid contingent of die-hard fans of tape. Few of them will claim to enjoy the aspects of tape recording that make it an inherently slower process, but the sonic qualities that tape imparts are enough to justify endless rewinds

Common Mix Issues that are Actually Musical Issues

Digital music production offers a vast array of tools to tweak sounds in ways that were once imaginable. Better still, the internet is a treasure trove of resources for those who are searching for better ways to use those tools to make stronger mixes and tighter tracks.

Artist Interview: Funk cartel

Could you tell us about your background?Hi Samplesound, we were born in London raised in Kent, our family has always had close ties to dance music and in particular all things House. Our Uncles threw acid house raves in London back in the 80s and ran a record label, being surrounded by the music growing up it was only natural for us...

Focus on Deep Tech Series

Deep Tech Series is an inspirational collection of minimal/deep tech loops and samples, packed full of swinging drum workouts, dubby chords, sophisticated synths, deep-basses, organic and processed percussive loops, dreamy pads and more.

Datacode is out now on Samplesound!

Datacode was founded in 2006 by producer Joe Romano aka Dataworx, who is based in Canada and has been producing Techno, Progressive & Tech House for nearly two decades. His most successful projects include Dataworx..