What is the state of sampling in 2019? A new report explains what’s going on.
February 12th, 2019 | by Alan Cross
TrackLib is a service that allows creators of music to discover and license original recordings for use as samples in
Browsing the "Sampling" Tag
Good Friday timesuck: A lecture on the history of sampling
March 16th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
If you’re counting the minutes until the weekend starts, burn up half an hour to watch this fantastic lecture on
The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 810: The 90s, Part 1: The Foundational Changes That Made Everything Possible
February 2nd, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Writing history takes a very long time. Sure, you could write everything down as it happens, but that’s only really
The Most Sampled Song in the World. You’ve Definitely Heard it Before
September 27th, 2016 | by Nerhys
Can you guess the title and who performed the most sampled song in history? According to WhoSampled.com, 1969’s “Amen, Brother”
The Range Samples Amateur Musicians on YouTube and Makes Some Awesome Music
August 5th, 2016 | by Nerhys
How much time do you spend on YouTube each month? One-man electro-pop act, James Hinton, aka the Range, spent over
Madonna Just Won a 26-Year-Old Copyright Case
June 4th, 2016 | by Amber Healy
Remember “Vogue,” Madonna’s hit song from 1990 that introduced the world to a hand-swirling, hip-gyrating dance craze? The courts haven’t.
Random Music News for Wednesday, June 1, 2016
June 1st, 2016 | by Alan Cross
June? Already? Here’s your music news. Here’s how things work in the US when it comes to the music business.
What Is the Most-Sampled Song of All Time?
November 11th, 2015 | by Alan Cross
Every morning at 8:45, I do a break with Fred and Mel on the morning show on 102.1 the Edge.
How Sampling Changed Music Forever
November 2nd, 2015 | by Alan Cross
Sampling–the art of surgically excising a sound and implanting in as part of creating a new piece of music–goes back
Random Music News for Wednesday, September 2, 2015
September 2nd, 2015 | by Alan Cross
In London for a few days to visit the Vintage.tv people. They’re coming to Canada, you know. In other music
The Godfather of Sampling Would Have Turned 105 This Week
August 15th, 2015 | by Alan Cross
If you use samples in your music (or if you’re just a fan of music that uses samples), you may
Moby Sued for Sampling Something 22 Years Ago
March 26th, 2014 | by Alan Cross
Front and centre in Moby’s “Thousand”–his 1993 single named after its insane BPM peaks–is a woman singing “Oh yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh!” That
And the Most-Sampled Song of All Time Is…
February 26th, 2014 | by Alan Cross
…NOT James Brown’s “Funky Drummer.” And no, it’s not the “Amen Break” from The Winstons’ “Amen, Brother.” Yeah, I’m surprised,
The Legal Quagmire Surrounding Sampling
February 25th, 2014 | by Alan Cross
When people first started excising bits of other compositions in the creation of brand new songs, it was a wild
Forget Crate Digging. Producers Are Now Hunting Through YouTube for Breaks and Beats.
February 24th, 2014 | by Alan Cross
For decades, hip hop and dance producers trolled through dusty bins of vinyl, looking for breaks and beats to inspire
Which Artists Have Been Sampled the Most?
February 10th, 2014 | by Alan Cross
If you’re interested in the area of sampling, there’s no better source of data than WhoSampled, a repository of who
A Brief History of Sampling
January 29th, 2014 | by Alan Cross
And when I say “brief,” I mean it. Open Culture found this video that explains everything in three minutes and
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