Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In ...

Do you keep hearing people talk about sampling rate in music? But aren’t certain what that actually is?? Well, friend, you’ve come to the right place. On a fundamental level, sampling rate is a result ...

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 ...

Sampling isn’t just recycling old sounds—it’s a powerful form of musical storytelling that bridges generations, honors cultural legacy, and sparks innovation. Imagine sitting in your car, listening to ...

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New York City's most notable drill producers have defined themselves by the songs they sample, so much so that critics and fans alike have phrased the trend as "sample drill." Abe Beame Abe Beame ...

Sampling can take your music to new creative heights, but without proper clearance it can also lead to takedowns, lost royalties, or lawsuits. Every sample involves two copyrights — the composition ...

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.

After a decades-long battle, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the supreme German Constitutional Court) has overturned a ban on a song that used a two-second sample of a Kraftwerk recording. In 1997, ...