* Use Me, Abuse Me, Sample Me *

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording of a song in a different song or piece.

This phenomenon used to be most obvious in hip hop, but with hip hop becoming mainstream and crossing to other genres (together with hip hop producers) it is nowadays visible everywhere in the music world. Listen more carefully to the music around you and you will be surprised to discover that every other song samples some other, more or less known song.

From it's beginning sampling was controversial legally and musically. Legally it is becoming less controversial because of the copyright clearance that is today necessary to obtain before sampling someone's song. Musically, I believe, sampling will always be controversial and while praised by ones at the same time criticized by others.

I am following this trend for many years now, not only because of my love for hip hop music, but also because by doing the research and checking out the samples of the song I love, I discovered many other great songs, that I otherwise wouldn't have a chance to find via my usual music sources.

However, in the times when it feels that everybody seems to be using and abusing good, old music to create a hit instead of relaying on their own creativity, I am not as enthusiastic as I used to be about this trend.

Thankfully, there are still creative, talented artists out there, that are using (and abusing) samples in the right way.
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Tonight (17.03.2014) in Gimme A Beat I am going to dive deep into the world of sampled music. Tune in for my choice of songs from female artists that are either sampled or are sampling some other songs. And this time, exceptionally, I will also play songs from male artists if they fit in either group of songs.

Use Me, Abuse Me, Sample Me with a playlist

from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora

featuring artists that I will play tonight:
gimme a beat on youtube
and TED speech
We Should All Be Feminist from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Kisses,
Babymonster
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