Do you keep hearing people talk about sampling rate in music? But aren’t certain what that actually is?? Well, friend, you’ve come to the right place. On a fundamental level, sampling rate is a result ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dani walks Nilay through two episodes of Future of Music season 2 — one about how music sampling has changed the ...

Sampling has become a huge part of music production. However, you must choose a sample that matches other aspects of your song. Sampling has become one of the most influential strategies in modern ...

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.

Snoop Dogg has some words for musicians and producers that are making songs that sample the hit records of yesteryear. The legendary rapper and Dr. Dre sat down with Stephen A. Smith to talk all ...

The art of taking one artist’s song and turning it into your own is a practice that has ruled the music industry for years. The process of integrating another song into your own is called sampling. As ...

A-Trak is reflecting on the evolution of the art of sampling. In a Twitter thread over the weekend, the producer/DJ/all-around industry titan—whose extensive ...

It may seem impossible to combine classical music, one of the oldest genres of music, with Korean pop (K-pop), an internationally trending genre. But it’s probable. The first song to sample classical ...

Joanna Demers, assistant professor of music history and literature, University of Southern California Is the creative appropriation of previously recorded music theft? Or is that act, better known as ...

R&B is wallowing in its past: It feels like nearly every commercially successful R&B single at the moment is built on a prominent sample or a conspicuous interpolation of an old hit. It’s not the act ...

"Trap and drill music sampling the old school classics sucks. I have tried to listen to akina Ice Spice and some new Gen Z music with some 90s samples, but I just can't. Lots of bass and auto-tune and ...