Ball Hog Beats Podcast

After a short absence due to technical difficulties and studio upgrades , Ball Hog Beats jumps online for a rare Thursday night live stream to dig samples on Splice and work on a new beat called “Playas”.

Ball Hog Beats jumps online to show how to make a beat set for live performances using the MPC.

Coming off the 100th episode live stream , Ball Hog Beats returns for the usual Sample Sunday routine , sampling “Magical Connection” from a John B. Sebastian vinyl .

After a little over a year since the first upload, the Ball Hog Beats Podcast has reached the milestone of 100 episodes. Joined by his longtime friend Me Eazzz , Ball Hog Beats cooks up 2 new beats live , while also going down memory lane of the beginning of their music journey , and new endeavors creating content.

With the day off for the holiday, Ball Hog Beats take advantage by cooking a beat with a Splice sample before the fireworks starts !

For this week’s Sample Sunday , Ball Hog Beats samples from the “Ronnie Aldrich and His Two Pianos” and Al Jarreau’s “Breaking Away” album.

 Ball Hog Beats takes a deep dive expoloring the new announcement of the Akai Pro’s new MPC KEY 61 standalone synthesizer drum machine and the MPC 2.11 Firmware Update and their features.

For this week's Sample Sunday episode , Ball Hog Beats pulls a Ranchmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor record and samples the "Third Movement" selection. Also, he talks to a friend of the show, Me Eazzz, about Drake's new album and the mixed reviews and gives personal reactions. 

For this week's Sample Sunday , Ball Hog Beats jumps on the Tracklib platform for samples. "50/50 Love" by C.L. Blast was sampled to start on a new beat.

For Sample Sunday , Ball Hog Beats takes a sample suggestion from the discord community and samples German composer , Martin Böttcher’s “Stranger’s Serenade” , then heads over to Splice to dig some samples to work on.

For Sample Sunday, Ball Hog Beats pulls almost all orchestra records in his random pull, and samples March Slav , The Philadelphia Orchestra. 

Almost at the end of a busy weak, Ball Hog Beats jumps on the live stream to dig samples on Splice and starts working on a new R&B beat called "Spend The Night".

For this week’s Sample Sunday , Ball Hog Beats cooks a beat from a sample suggestion (Barbra Mason “Yes, I’m Ready) from his discord by his dog Me Eazie. Eventually he joined by phone and shared his reaction to Kendrick’s new album and the other top tier lyricists of hip hop .

Ball Hog Beats talks about the highly anticipated Kendrick Lamar that dropped earlier in the day and works on a new beat with a R&B Trap soul vibe called “So Sexy”.

Ball Hog Beats jumps online for a night stream for Sample Sunday, sampling Sam Cooke "Thats Heaven to Me" and Finnerty Flynn and the Singing City , a recorded educational and entertaining story for children from 1969.

Ball Hog Beats digs for samples on Splice on a Friday morning, switching up the schedule a bit. But as normal, a new beat is cooked up titled "Major Opps".

Ball Hog Beats jumps on the live stream for Sample Sunday to prepare for a show he has later that night & samples some orchestra music from the Brass on Ivory vinyl .

Ball Hog Beats records a verse to feature on, Platinumstar’s "My Introduction” , which is also produced by Ball Hog Beats. A little rusty, he took his time recording takes and listening back to see what adjustments could be made. The two made connection via the HRDRV platform, where Platinumstar download the beat for the song.

After skipping last weekend , Ball Hog Beats returns for his normal Sunday vinyls ritual with the Sample Sunday live stream.

Music Producer , Educator , and Influencer ,  Malo Beats joins the Ball Hog Beats Podcast to various topics regarding the music production/ sample community.

Ball Hog Beats works on some routine music producer task including export beats and updating the beat store with new beats and proper metadata.

Ball Hog Beats receives a sample request from a friend of the show , artist Yung Sam. His was request was to sample Beyoncé’s “Baby Boy” featuring Sean Paul, for his friend and new artist actually under the name Baby Boy. Eventually Baby Boy joins the stream to vibes out while Ball Hog Beats cooks up the beat up, while meeting him for the first time virtually.

Ball Hog Beats invites his Mom over for an all gospel Sample Sunday cookup , with her picking the songs to sample. They also discussed their favorite gospel artist and their impact on the gospel genre , and the up coming Verzuz on Easter Sunday with Bebe & Cee Winans and Mary Mary. The samples used were “No Weapon” by Fred Hammond , “The Best In Me” by Marvin Sapp & “Better Days” by Le’Andria John...

Ball Hog Beats digs samples from Splice to work on a new soulful beat called “In The River” as well as sampling something from Ski Beats’ Instagram page for a another quick beat.

On this week’s Sample Sunday episode, Ball Hog Beats pulls some heavyweight records from the shelf , and ends up sampling LA Mass Choir , The Whispers , Stanley Black & The London Festival Orchestra and Chorus.