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Sampling

Sampleface Five: Cowboy Bebop Samples

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis
cowboy bebop

See You Space Cowboy …

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Free Download Sampling

Sampleface Five: Free Music Samples

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Playing midi keyboard. Sound engineer working and mixing music indoors in the studio.

If you need free samples, look no further as the links from this list contain over a million music samples, all royalty-free.

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Sampling Technology

How to make a lo-fi beat with AI

December 9, 2020January 13, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis
Someone with a MPC on their desk

Using Selector—the world’s first AI sample recommendation tool—you can create beats with ease.

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Sampling Video

9th Wonder talks about DUCKWORTH. for NPR’s ‘The Formula’

December 8, 2020January 6, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis
9th Wonder on DUCKWORTH. for The Formula

In this video, 9th Wonder spoke about DUCKWORTH. and the samples he used.

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Sampling

Mos Def – Black On Both Sides (Sample Set)

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis

VinRican played some of the classic samples from Mos Def’s Black On Both Sides. Stream it here.

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Sampling

Samples from Quasimoto’s The Unseen

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Quasimoto's The Unseen

Bask in the smokey haze of jazz and soul samples from Quasimoto’s debut classic, The Unseen.

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Sampling

Ethical issues and dilemmas of ‘loop digging’

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Someone with a MPC on their desk

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

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Sampling

Sampling Inspiration: Radiooooo

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
radiooooo

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

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Music Sampling

Sampleface Five: Blade Runner Samples

August 23, 2020January 22, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis
Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, pointing a gun

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

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Sampling

Grey Tuesday, copyrights, and creative freedom

August 22, 2020December 1, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Grey Tuesday

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.

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Sampling

Dilla Data Is A Dilla Treasure Trove

August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
J Dilla

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

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Sampling

Does Music Have A Sampling Problem?

August 5, 2020August 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Records and headphones

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

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Sampling

How Music Sampling is Different from Stealing

July 26, 2020August 15, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
You wouldn't steal a sample

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.

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Sampling

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

May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Citizen DJ: the Library of Congress's hip hop sampling tool

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

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Sampling

Music sampling used to study cultural conformity bias

May 9, 2020August 23, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
People following each other off a cliff as a representation of conformity bias.

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

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Sampling

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

April 18, 2020December 7, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
DJ Dahi for NPR

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

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Sampling

Sampleface Five: Thundercat Samples

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
thundercat

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

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Sampling

Lo Dopemine’s Random Music Sample Generator

July 28, 2019December 1, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
sampler rack

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

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Sampling

Oto-tetsu + sampling Japan’s rail service

May 29, 2019January 26, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
oto-tetsu

There’s an underground scene in Japan filled with train sounds and PA systems. Field recordings used in music is nothing new and probably the most primitive form of sound art in history. But there’s a new scene in Japan using a particular type of outdoor sounds. The oto-tetsu scene (from the Japanese words oto meaning …

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Sampling

Cookin Soul samples Street Fighter II on a beat

May 23, 2019January 13, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis
Cookin Soul samples Street Fighter II on a beat

To celebrate 100,000 YouTube subscribers, Cookin Soul made a beat from the iconic SNES game.

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