Kanye West: An Inspiring Look at Recontextualizing with Samples

October 19, 2011 Sampling

Love him or hate him, Kanye West does a great job of making catchy songs from classic samples. For me, being primarily a rock producer, I often neglect the inspiring sounding board that an excellent sample can be. This video demonstrates the original samples used in some of Kanye West’s hits both in their original [...]

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Sampling: Legally Ambiguous Like Whoa

February 14, 2008 Licensing, Music Business, Sampling

This post focuses on the practice of sampling and its legal ramifications. Sampling has, for years, been a routine practice in the music industry.  Sampling is taking a part of an already recorded musical composition and repurposing it in a new composition.  It used to be that people would simply sample freely, release the material, [...]

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