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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

We're getting to the bottom of sampling and clearances. To help us, we've enlisted two of the biz's best - Bluejuice muso Jake Stone who is also from the music advocacy body Music NSW and Julia Kosky ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is one of the most successful (and richest) men in the music business. He has many to thank for this success. When he launched Bad Boy Records, the Notorious B.I.G. was one of the ...

Nashville producer Luke Laird hopes to inspire new songwriters with the samples in his Splice pack. Sam Hunt’s “Hard to Forget,” the fourth single from his sophomore studio album Southside, opens with ...