Dilla Data Is A Dilla Treasure Trove
4 NYU students created a site called Dilla Data that collected information on J Dilla’s samples. Check it out.
Category: Sampling
Does Music Have A Sampling Problem?
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
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
The Library of Congress will launch its open-source sampling tool in the summer for users to try their hand at the artform.
Music sampling used to study cultural conformity bias
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
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
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
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
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 …
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.
Moby's Play as "audio blackface"
A compelling article discusses the cultural appropriation of black voices in Moby’s seminal album.
A Sampling Essay by Defected
This sampling essay from Defected covers everything from the history of sampling to three European stars of the craft.
J Dilla Talks About His Sampling Inspirations in Rare Interview From 2003
The hip hop icon talks about his family in Detroit and how he only discovered Fela Kuti while working on Like Water For Chocolate.
RecordRadar turns your e-digging into crate digging
The web app integrates your Spotify music and finds records near you to buy from Discogs.
Sampleface Five: Kenny G Samples
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 reasons are because of you. Well, not necessarily *you* but readers in general. You see, as part of our content strategy, I check what you all search for to make …
Obscure Artists Made For Hip Hop Samples
Here’s a selection of obscure artists ripe for sampling. It appears some people weren’t very happy with our guest post on Classic Artists Made For Hip-Hop Samples. That’s fair enough. It goes without saying everyone’s entitled to their opinion, including the person who wrote the article. But then we thought… how about obscure artists? The …
Spot-digging: e-digging on Spotify
The word “spot-digging” has made its way onto Urban Dictionary so it must be a thing, right?
Classic Artists Made For Hip-Hop Samples
Here are a selection of classic artists ripe for sampling.
Samples from Jaylib's Champion Sound Played by VinRican
Power 106 Los Angeles got DJ VinRican to mix tracks from Champion Sound with the samples they used. It’s officially dope. Say what you want about WhoSampled but I’m sure many of us have searched through and marvelled at the samples used in our favourite tracks. I’ve done it with Jaylib before but there’s always …
Sample Breakdown: Madvillainy
For anyone who needed a sample breakdown of Madvillainy, one of the greatest hip hop albums of our generation, here you go.
