The Music is the Message: Sample-based Music Gets Political
posted on July 31, 2013 - 4:13pm
Sampling - the act of remixing and reappropriating sounds from other songs to create something new and original - has been a longstanding musical practice.
While many hip-hop artists have been sampling hooks, melodies and vocals from songs for decades, it is the more experimental electronic artists that are sampling unconventional sounds that are catching my attention.