the samps

Cole and I met ten years ago now, he was working at the Smell as a sound person at the time, and he was one of the few people that was really supportive of my music, and said if I ever wanted to work with him he would be down. I was scared to work with someone else because I had only worked alone at that point, but I trusted Cole and the first project I worked with him on was Ekstasis (2012)... Re

Cole M. G. N. and his legendary project the Samps are back (with J. Darrah + Harland Burkhart in tow) with their insane debut full-length album Breakfast, coming this November on Gloriette. Check the delirious yacht-funk jammer / lead single "Hit n Run" below...

Please welcome the great Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel (and a member of the two funkiest duos on the West Coast, with Droop-E + DāM-FunK respectively, AMTHST and Nite-Funk), who will be running things here on GvsB all day. Her beautiful and very emotional new LP Liquid Cool is out today on her own label, Gloriette, so we asked Ramona to take over the site for the occasion to share some of her f

The Samps have a new 12" (pictured) due at the end of this month from our friends at Japan's Big Love. The Bomb Squad-inspired crew flips samples like no one else, as heard on this bent, floating space-funk jam, which the group posted to their Facebook page a while back...

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30 minute collage of spaced-out retro-futuristic funk, courtesy of The Samps' Cole MGN. Get the cassette version of "Windows '69 Edition (on TV)" for free when you order the band's excellent new EP from Mexican Summer: mp3: (28 mb) ******

Our friends at Mexican Summer just sent over a list of their upcoming releases, and in addition to some pretty rad and extremely limited Record Store Day exclusives (see above) that will be available on Saturday, they've also got some great releases planned in the coming months from the Mantles, the Bitters, the Samps (Cole of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti), Ramases, Dunes, and more...