Legal and financial limitations have put a damper on a musical tool that once served as an important way for rappers to connect with musical and social history. Some of the consequences for rap music ...

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If you’ve ever enjoyed a top-100 record in the past 35 years or so, then you owe some thanks to a French composer who obsessively messed with rudimentary sound tech while wearing ill-fitting suits. In ...

When samplers first came to prominence in the late 1980s, a new era in music was born. The ability to digitise audio made possible the realistic simulation of acoustic and electric instruments, and ...

Here are a few new-age sampling techniques that marketers are using to push products into consumer’s shopping carts. Remember the time when a product/sachet would pop out of the morning newspaper?

Although newer artists and producers continue to breathe new life into the endless possibilities of sampling, there’s been growing criticism of contemporary popular music reaching back to sample the ...