Sampling (music)
Created | Updated Aug 11, 2002
Sampling is the process of recording a slice of music or other sound and recycling it into another audio production.
Sampled music has become increasingly popular in the last ten years and dominates the modern club scene. Fat Boy Slim is a famous example of a sampling maestro with the majority of his beats being sliced up reicarnations of older tunes (not that you would recognise them. Moby's album play is a fine example of sampling at its very best. It is chock full of old blues vocals brought up to date with modern synths and beats.
Some people may argue that sampling is theft and music should be original.
I would argue that sampling is as creative as playing an instrument and the sampler should be veiwed as an instrument in its own right.
Sampled music has become increasingly popular in the last ten years and dominates the modern club scene. Fat Boy Slim is a famous example of a sampling maestro with the majority of his beats being sliced up reicarnations of older tunes (not that you would recognise them. Moby's album play is a fine example of sampling at its very best. It is chock full of old blues vocals brought up to date with modern synths and beats.
Some people may argue that sampling is theft and music should be original.
I would argue that sampling is as creative as playing an instrument and the sampler should be veiwed as an instrument in its own right.
