Sampling articles

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  Artists go after 'Harlem Shake' for unlicensed samples

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 10, 2013 09:15 pm + 52 comments

  The infectiousness of the Harlem Shake meme has turned Baauer’s pounding dance track into a Continue reading…

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  The Verge Playlist: Sampled funk and borrowed soul

  By Russell Brandom on February 22, 2013 03:20 pm + 27 comments

  The best 90s rap is like a jigsaw puzzle. Every drum break and borrowed hook leads back to another Continue reading…

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  Watch this: a history of hip-hop sampling video games

  By Andrew Webster on December 2, 2012 06:49 pm + 13 comments

  Samples for hip-hop songs can come from a wide variety of places, and as this supercut from Spin Continue reading…

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  Mogees turns a contact mic and any hard surface into a gestural audio input

  By Jeff Blagdon on January 4, 2012 10:32 am + 7 comments

  Banging on lunchroom tables, the favored pastime of teenaged noisemakers everywhere, has just been Continue reading…