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Old School loops to build on
Breaks, funk flips and the drum sound the genre started with. Built by producers who work the way the records they love were made.
Producers working in Old School1
vorxshadeVerified producer
Hip-Hop · Boom Bap · Old School
- Loops
- 17
- Collab
- 1
- Replies
- New
What Old School loops usually bring
Old-school loops come from the way the first hip-hop records were made: breakbeats, funk and soul flips, horn stabs and the drum sound the genre started with. Loop makers who work in this style tend to play or program in the manner of those records, with the grit and swing that came from sampling them.
Tempo usually sits between 90 and 110 BPM, a little faster than boom bap, and the groove comes from the funk and soul it draws on. Old-school loops are often built around a break or a riff that repeats for a whole verse, with the drums hitting hard and the rest of the arrangement kept simple.
Collaborating on Old School loops
Much of the old-school sound was built by sampling other records, which is exactly where a loop played or produced from scratch earns its place: it brings the sound without someone else's recording underneath. The credit is the loop maker's like any other, and agreeing it early keeps the flip honest.
On ColabLoop, you ask the loop's owner to build on it, and if they accept, a private room opens with the full WAV to take into your own DAW. When the beat is released, both of you attest that the owner is on the split. ColabLoop records those attestations; registering the split with a PRO or distributor is still yours to do.