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• Sample, Better, Faster, Stronger

  This week on the Seven O'Clock Sample we are celebrating the music of Daft Punk.  Their new album Random Access Memories hit stores on Tuesday and we are going back through some of their past records to find great samples.  The track "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2009, but the song was first featured on Daft Punk's 2001 album Discovery. Without a doubt this is one of the duo's biggest hits.  It was famously samlpled by Kanye back in 2007 for his track "Stronger", but the original sample source comes from Edwin Birdsong's 1979 track "Cola Bottle Baby". ​ DAFT PUNKEDWIN BIRDSONGHARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGERCOLA BOTTLE BABY

• Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Announces New Album, Shares New Song, "Better Days"

  Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros announced that they will be releasing their 3rd studio album on July 23, 2013.  According to frontman Alex Ebert, the self-titled album is the rawest, most liberated, and most rambunctious stuff they have done. Below is the tracklisting of the album, and a stream of the first track from the album called "Better Days." Tracklisting: 1. Better Days 2. Let’s Get High 3. Two 4. Please! 5. Life is Hard 6. If I Were Free 7. In The Lion 8. Country Calling 9. They Were Wrong 10. In The Summer 11. Remember To Remember 12. This Life Catch Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros perform at this year's Summerfest on June 26 along with The Violent Femmes and The Avett Brothers.  

• Introducing: Monobloco

  Moved the music noonward with some sweet sounds from one of Brazil's best bloco. What's a bloco? A street band, of course; and in particular, from Rio De Janiero. The thing that's different about Monobloco, unlike most of Rio's blocos, which tend play one type of music (typically samba), Monobloco has become extremely popular among the youth because they incorporate a lot of sounds in their sound. Monobloco is a mix of various rhythms such as coco, ciranda, marcha, xote, samba-charme, and particularly samba-rock and funk, as well as carnaval sambas.  A sound that worked so well on the street that the band began touring and have just unleashed their first international release. The album is called Arrastão da Alegria, and though I haven't given it a deep listen, there were several cuts that stood up to testing, including the catchy one I played today...

• Introducing: Monobloco

  Moved the music noonward with some sweet sounds from one of Brazil's best bloco. What's a bloco? A street band, of course; and in particular, from Rio De Janiero. The thing that's different about Monobloco, unlike most of Rio's blocos, which tend play one type of music (typically samba), Monobloco has become extremely popular among the youth because they incorporate a lot of sounds in their sound. Monobloco is a mix of various rhythms such as coco, ciranda, marcha, xote, samba-charme, and particularly samba-rock and funk, as well as carnaval sambas.  A sound that worked so well on the street that the band began touring and have just unleashed their first international release. The album is called Arrastão da Alegria, and though I haven't given it a deep listen, there were several cuts that stood up to testing, including the catchy one I played today...