Sampling

As YunVeroz put it in a news post back in 2008:

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Sampling is the bastard, inbred child of music.

It is a recluse, cast away by the tight clique of so-called "legitimate" genres, forced to wallow through a dusty sea of modulated spiral grooves cut into vinyl acetate.

There, it is left to drown, subsequently buried in an underground chamber of veritable appreciation.

There are a few rules to sampling:

1. There are no rules to sampling.

2. You may sample whatever the fuck you please.

3. Refer to rules 1 and 2.

Regardless of what goody-two-shoes proclaim, sampling is an art.

It is the creative process of taking someone's artistic vision and combining it, both with others and one's own, to paint a lush landscape of sound only your ears can see.

It brings to light a plethera of records that have been set aside only to collect dust and grow old.

The sampler's duty lies in reinventing these songs, these sounds, these visions, and bringing them to the surface.

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I completely agree with what Yun has stated and couldn't have said it better myself.

Here is my attempt at re-stating the important facts.

Sampling isn't stealing.

It's taking elements from already recorded pieces of music and, by way way of new ideas, turning them inside out and making them your own.

Sample anything and everything you can get your hands on.

That's my honest opinion.

Leave yours in a comment below.

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SAMPLE: Conal (bass, strings)

SAMPLE: NPR (dialogue)