Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dani walks Nilay through two episodes of Future of Music season 2 — one about how music sampling has changed the ...

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.

Frank Dukes has been “having a moment” for the past five years, and it’s showing no signs of stopping. He’s still your favourite artist’s favourite producer. Dukes, whose real name is Adam Feeney, is ...

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 ...

Saweetie released her new single “Tap In,” which samples rapper Too Short’s 2007 hit “Blow The Whistle.” Prior to “Tap In,” Saweetie rose to popularity with other hit singles that were also sampled ...

"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 ...

*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 ...

Music-creation software company Output just launched an AI tool that generates free sample packs based on text prompts. These packs are royalty-free and include 30 samples that can be used in the ...