Independent music discovery
About SAMPLEMENT
SAMPLEMENT is an independent music-discovery project for listeners, selectors and producers who like to follow the connections behind a sound: from the record itself to the people, places, scenes and samples around it.
Follow the sound beyond the track.
A record can open a path to an unfamiliar artist, a local scene, a different decade or a sound that turns up somewhere unexpected. SAMPLEMENT brings those paths into one place, so a discovery can become the start of another.
01 / Discover
Follow a clue
Search music by genre and subgenre, year or decade, country, album or single, BPM and key. Select countries on the interactive map or draw a region, then follow the sound wherever it leads.
02 / Collect
Build a Crate
Gather tracks around a sound, place, period or idea. Every Crate is public and can be explored by other listeners from the Crates page or your profile.
03 / Listen
Get hands-on
Use Sample Chopper to play YouTube recordings, loop a passage, trigger 16 Pads and save one set of chops for a catalogue track. Tap tempo, the metronome and three separate drum loops help you experiment with a beat.
04 / Watch
Explore sampling culture
Browse community videos by category, subcategory and language. Play them on the Videos page or take a seat in Movie Room, with its own player, focus mode and full-screen option.
05 / Connect
Trace the connections
Open artist, album, label and genre pages to see how catalogue entries relate. Follow listeners, build a public profile and add a community suggestion when you know a track sampled another.
06 / Contribute
Help the catalogue grow
Suggest a track or video for the shared catalogue. SAMPLEMENT gathers details to help identify the right recording; community submissions are reviewed before they appear, and published catalogue information can be corrected as the collection grows.
Useful details, with their sources.
A catalogue built with care
When someone adds music, YouTube can suggest a title and artist, MusicBrainz can help match the recording and release, and Discogs can provide release references for comparison. A likely edition is suggested when the available evidence supports it; the person submitting the track can review or change that choice.
Sources do not always include every detail. Genre suggestions can be reviewed, subgenres are community-confirmed, and BPM or key may need to be entered manually while the GetSongBPM lookup is unavailable. Artwork is shown from its external source; contributors can choose an available cover, a YouTube thumbnail or another image URL.
SAMPLEMENT does not host catalogue recordings. Sample Chopper and the track pages play recordings through YouTube; the three fixed drum loops are hosted separately by SAMPLEMENT. A link or a chop cue does not grant permission to use a recording as a sample.
On the horizon
The Dig
The Dig is a future crate-digging experience: a more spatial, 3D way to browse the records and connections in SAMPLEMENT. For now, keep exploring through Discover, Crates and the catalogue pages.
Join the dig
Find a record. Follow the thread.
Explore the catalogue, browse community Crates, watch a video or suggest music to add.
Stay connected
Follow SAMPLEMENT
Find SAMPLEMENT on Discord, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok.