Ongoing History Daily: Sampling vs. interpolation
Modern electronic sampling has been with us since the early 1980s. This is when you use some specialized hardware and software to surgically excise a passage from an old piece
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Ongoing History Daily: The Amen Break
You may have heard about the Amen Break, a six-second drum sample taken from a 1969 song by The Winstons that crept into hip hop, breakbeat, jungle, electronica, drums and
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The most-sampled song of all time
Sampling—the practice of surgically excising a short passage from one song and then using it to build a brand-new song—has been with us since the late 1970s. So here’s a
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Random music news for Saturday, November 25, 2023
Bill Gates has some observations about how AI is going to change the way we use computers. Let’s observe music news for November 25, 2023. More music new? Look here.
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: New Order’s gross sampler experiments
In the early 80s, music technology was exploding with new synthesizers, practical and powerful drum machines, and hardware that could sample and manipulate sounds in an infinite number of ways.
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Hear me out: Maybe AI won’t be so bad for music
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] When Barry Manilow wanted to tour in 1982, he was faced with the immense cost of taking an orchestra on the
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Over US$80 million was spent on the Batgirl movie. Now it’s being junked because it’s “irredeemable.” And you thought you were having a bad day. Let’s try some music news
Read MoreRandom music news for Saturday, December 11, 2021
I am really, really looking forward to tomorrow’s F1 race. Are you on Team Lewis or Team Max? Now let’s try some music news for December 11, 2021. For those
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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 sampled more than any other song in hip-hop. Here’s how
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Another 2019 wrap: The state of sampling in music
Tracklib, a company that offers legal clearance of samples for use in songs, has released its State of Sample 2019 report. They dug into the Billboard Top 100 to show
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What is the state of sampling in 2019? A new report explains what’s going on.
TrackLib is a service that allows creators of music to discover and license original recordings for use as samples in new compositions. They’ve just released their first-ever State of Sampling
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