Sampling Archives | Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

This is the most-sampled song in hip-hop and how it came to be that way

In 1985, Slick Rick and Doug. E. Fresh released a track called “La Di Da Di.” Since then, it’s become

Tracklib, a company that offers legal clearance of samples for use in songs, has released its State of Sample 2019

TrackLib is a service that allows creators of music to discover and license original recordings for use as samples in

If you’re counting the minutes until the weekend starts, burn up half an hour to watch this fantastic lecture on

Writing history takes a very long time. Sure, you could write everything down as it happens, but that’s only really

Can you guess the title and who performed the most sampled song in history? According to WhoSampled.com, 1969’s “Amen, Brother”

How much time do you spend on YouTube each month? One-man electro-pop act, James Hinton, aka the Range, spent over

Remember “Vogue,” Madonna’s hit song from 1990 that introduced the world to a hand-swirling, hip-gyrating dance craze? The courts haven’t.

June? Already? Here’s your music news. Here’s how things work in the US when it comes to the music business.

Every morning at 8:45, I do a break with Fred and Mel on the morning show on 102.1 the Edge.

Sampling–the art of surgically excising a sound and implanting in as part of creating a new piece of music–goes back

Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
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King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver
Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
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