Some of the most heartfelt and characterful recordings ever made are Alan Lomax’s legendary 20th century field recordings of folks and roots music from across america. For client Rene Amesz & Ferreck Dawn we recreated 2 of the prison blues songs they sampled. We faithfully use early 20th century vintage recording equipment to ensure the retro sound so critical to the samples is maintained.

Great collab between legends Coldcut and Roots Manuva with Replay Heaven team doing all the retro orchestra and celeste elements.

We did the sample replay of this classic Rodriguez anthem.

Rat Boy’s amazing debut album is built on a massive mashup of diverse samples, bringing back the memory of the golden early days of sampling like Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. Doing this legally is a massive minefield, but it’s all under control, with Replay Heaven recreating many classic sounds in the background!

We recreated this classic 80s track – I Won’t Let You Down by pHD for Armand Van Helden. By having a sample replay rather than using the original sample, Armand has access to the stems and so can use the vocal without the backing and the backing without the vocals etc at different points in the track.

We did this sample replay of Rozalla Everybody’s Free for Chase and Status:

A lovely Aretha Franklin vocal sample replay here we did for High Contrast

Marvin Gaye vocals have been very in vogue for the past few years and we have several vocalists who are great at Marvin impressions, and a collection of original 1960s valve equipment to capture the vintage sonics beautifully. Here are 2 recent Marvin Gaye sample replays we have done recently with different singers.