Sampling Archives - Sampleface

Ethical issues and dilemmas of ‘loop digging’

September 8, 2020• Sampling

What are the ethical implications of sampling? A PhD student has written a paper on it from the perspective of ‘loop digging’.

Sampling Inspiration: Radiooooo

August 25, 2020• Sampling

Discover music from around the world and back in time with Radiooooo, the shiny new tool in our sampling toolbox....

Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, pointing a gun

Sampleface Five: Blade Runner Samples

August 23, 2020• Music, Sampling

From Ryuichi Sakamoto to Tricky, here are 5 tracks that used Blade Runner samples....

Grey Tuesday, copyrights, and creative freedom

August 22, 2020• Sampling

In February 2004, an event known as Grey Tuesday took place in protest against musical censorship. This is what happened and what we can learn from it.

Dilla Data Is A Dilla Treasure Trove

August 8, 2020• Sampling

4 NYU students created a site called Dilla Data that collected information on J Dilla's samples. Check it out....

Does Music Have A Sampling Problem?

August 5, 2020• Sampling

Music may have a sampling problem but what are the solutions? Landr has a few and outlined them in their latest blog post....

How Music Sampling is Different from Stealing

July 26, 2020• Sampling

Sampling is a creative tool for music composition. But is it really theft? Dr. E. Michael Harrington clarified things in a video for Berklee Online.

Citizen DJ: the Library of Congress’s hip hop sampling tool

May 10, 2020• Sampling

The Library of Congress will launch its open-source sampling tool in the summer for users to try their hand at the artform....

People following each other off a cliff as a representation of conformity bias.

Music sampling used to study cultural conformity bias

May 9, 2020• Sampling

A psychologist at City University of New York used samples on commercial releases to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people....

DJ Dahi Talks About Sampling for NPR’s ‘The Formula’ Series

April 18, 2020• Sampling

DJ Dahi discusses his three pillars of sampling and how he flipped samples for the likes of Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar.

Sampleface Five: Thundercat Samples

April 17, 2020• Sampling

Thundercat is one of the most creative jazz musicians of the 21st century. We picked 5 samples from his discography....

Lo Dopemine’s Random Music Sample Generator

July 28, 2019• Sampling

Randomness is a brilliant catalyst for inspiration. Lo Dopemine's Random Music Sample Generator is the tool you need to spark ideas....

Oto-tetsu + sampling Japan’s rail service

May 29, 2019• Sampling

Cookin Soul samples Street Fighter II on a beat

May 23, 2019• Sampling

To celebrate 100,000 YouTube subscribers, Cookin Soul made a beat from the iconic SNES game. Spanish hip hop producer/DJ Cookin Soul has...

Moby’s Play as “audio blackface”

May 23, 2019• Sampling

A compelling article discusses the cultural appropriation of black voices in Moby's seminal album....

A Sampling Essay by Defected

May 12, 2019• Sampling

This sampling essay from Defected covers everything from the history of sampling to three European stars of the craft.

RecordRadar turns your e-digging into crate digging

May 3, 2019• Sampling

With RecordRadar, you can turn your Spotify playlists into this. The web app integrates your Spotify music and finds records near you to...

Sampleface Five: Kenny G Samples

April 7, 2019• Sampling

I don’t like Kenny G. That sounds like an odd admission when I’m about to write about the man but I have reasons. And those...

Spot-digging – E-digging on Spotify

March 16, 2019• Sampling

The word “spot-digging” has made its way onto Urban Dictionary so it must be a thing, right? We like to do research on topics...

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