The crew from the amazing website WhoSampled recently held the world’s first ‘Samplethon’, a hackathon style competition where twenty selected producers were given access to previously unavailable samples mined from the original material from the Boosey & Hawkes and Cavendish catalogues.

Tasked to create their own beat against the clock; armed with their own equipment and with the supervision of a crew of ‘esteemed’ mentors the winners chosen at the end of the session by a panel of judges. What a flipping  great idea! Held at the Great Escape Festival in the UK check out the footage below –