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 ...

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 ...

Though sometimes derided and often controversial, sampling has become a bedrock of modern popular music. It had its birth in hip-hop in the ’70s, when producers took drum breaks from soul, funk and ...

*Smokey Robinson shared his views on music sampling in a new interview with the R&B Money podcast, revealing that he embraces it and welcomes artists using his work. The music icon expressed his ...

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.