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The Groove Criminals are a sample production team based an underground beat-bunker buried in wilds of deepest Suffolk. Led by programmer, producer and occasional deejay Hoodee, The Groove Criminals provide copyright free sample material in a huge variety of styles including regular monthly sample contributions for the cover-mounted DVDs of both Future Music and Computer Music magazines, as well as sample CDs and music software.In addition to making samples, The Groove Criminals work as freelance music tech journalists, produce and release the odd record, and can be occasionally found jostling old ladies in the charity shops of East Anglia searching for rare easy listening LPs. Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

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New blog site

Hi all Due to various reasons this year (both good and bad) we've not been able to keep our blog as up to date as much as we'd like. So we've decided on a very late new year's resolution and started ...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:14:00 PST

The Godfather of soul has left the building

We first heard James Brown in the very early 80's, hip-hop was just taking off and us little white country boys from the UK wanted to know where all these breaks were coming from. So we dug. And the d...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:52:00 PST

Pre Xmas update

Howdy.   After a pretty insane couple of months we've finally grabbed a few days downtime here at GCHQ and thought we'd take the opportunity to fill you in on what's been going on over the last f...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:26:00 PST

Teaching, drumming and circuit bending

Been a little while since our last update so we thought it was about time to let you know what's been going on down here at GCHQ   Mr Hoodee has started teaching music tech once a week at our loc...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:44:00 PST

German fans and traffic jams

Whatcha. Been a busy week (again!) at GCHQ, Mr Hoodee has just returned from a few excellent days away in Germany. Highlights included plenty of Bitbuger Pils, far too much food and the look on our st...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:32:00 PST

Dr Funkinstein, synths, ears and beers

Howdy Been synth crazy this week at GCHQ, stacking up sounds from whatever analogue/digital/software synths we can get our hands on for the next batch of FM samples. As our sample work has been  ...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:10:00 PST

Blimey another entry so quickly!

Okay, we forgot to mention that there's a video of us doing the do (fiddling with a stylophone, a Bugbrand weevil synth box and a stack of effects) on Future Musics myspace page: http://www.myspace.co...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:28:00 PST

Kicking off

Okay, we've finally got round to setting up our myspace page  hopefully we wont be so slack in keeping it updated with all that's going on here at GCHQ. We're all pretty knackered after a mad week of...
Posted by GrooveCriminals on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:35:00 PST