"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 ...

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 ...

Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In ...

Sampling can take your music to new creative heights, but without proper clearance it can also lead to takedowns, lost royalties, or lawsuits. Every sample involves two copyrights — the composition ...

Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...

Sampling has become hugely popular in the music industry, and its ability to inspire inventive tracks has earned it the respect of artists and critics alike. However, the outdated nature of the laws ...

Heading into its homestretch, Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, examines “a musical revolution that was not only inspired by recording but born from its history: the art ...

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 ...

When hip hop came along and started using pieces of songs as the basis for new songs, copyright holders were spooked. Musical reference and quotation are as old as music itself, but the mechanical ...

The mere mention of Madonna conjures many images and associations: feminism, reinvention, Kabbala, the cone bra, and her many memorable performances. But today we have yet another thing to associate ...

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 ...