I've been fighting back and forth in my head on the opinion and moral and what's the limit of sampling and I want to hear what other people think? There are certain genre's that have become known for just doing brobdingnagian amounts of sampling, specifically, Electro-Swing, Rap Instrumentals, and Future Funk are what come to mind to me. And I do enjoy electro-swing, and I'll enjoy a rap song despite the instrumental clearly taking it's entire sound from another song, like Logic's "The Spotlight", because at that point it's not about the instrumental, it's about the lyrical content, but I still think the producer is just being lazy. Most of producers who create Electro-Swing tend to just add an electro beat to an old swing song and cut it up very minimally. I've organized my personal opinion on what I think about this for myself.

• If you(myself) to sample a song, either make it a minimal use of sampling, or change what you take to such a creative spin that it becomes your own.
• Don't get lazy, just cutting up someone else's song a little and adding drums to it just seems kind of cheating.
• Still add your own creative content to the song, not just have it center someone else's sample, make creative decisions and add your own musical content that you create.
• Realize that not all songs in a genre are uncreative because of there common stereotype for sampling, there can be artists that do it in a creative manner without straight up stealing someone else's sound and do it right, but doesn't mean everyone is exempt.

Well as my country's law doesn't know term "fair use"

Definitely good reason to keep away. lol

Rap is whole different story as there's whole mixtape culture

Indeed, one of the reasons I have trouble hating on Rappers for it, it's kind of the roots of it, and it doesn't become the sample.

Young Sinatra mixtape ... daammn good

Daaaammnn Right!

I like when artist somehow connects with the sampled content and continues that idea with his own instruments

Adding creativity does always seem a good reason to use a sample, and trying to expand on it sounds good, but I feel like there's a point the artist should just call it a remix. like if you've heard it, there is points like in the genre future funk where the artists just lazily overlay old japanese funk songs with a 4onthefloor beat, and leave it at that, maybe a low bass melody to add frequency, but they'll just leave it as a repeating stolen idea, no expansion, and claim them as original music. :/ It really disappoints me as an artist.

Who cares? Everything's a remix anyways. The idea of "original" creative content is a misnomer. What you make as a musician is directly influenced by what you heard as a music consumer, and you will make things that sound similar to things you like even without realizing it.

As long as you're not purposefully plagiarizing someone else's work as if it's all your own content, and you're not breaking the law and getting caught, whatever sounds come into your ears and out of your brain is your music. Someone can turn a 2 second loop from an old Super Nintendo game and make some crazy things with it.

^always remember this^


It's about taste and experience.

There's only so much shit you can stuff inside a bag before the bag explodes.

People with out bounds when it comes to technology should be utilized in research and development more so than using the tool.

Unless you use the tool precisely below the maximum it can handle, then that's an art form in and of itself

Machine, I would say that image applies fairly well to the topic if people decided not to apply reason behind their actions. :/ I never liked that analogy because it's going on the presumption that people can't put a line down where they realize that's the limit, though it does make a good point all the same, you can only get so "original".

The search for deeper meaning ends when you have found your ultimate answer. His was goat farming.

That aside, you can be as original as you want. especially now a days.

You can't let the use of music theory hinder your thinking when it comes to understanding literally hundreds of years of research and development and application of said topic.

I feel that, with so much music now. Introspection and understanding the self is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more important than just playing some friggin chords or making siqqqqqq wuuuuubbs brooooooooooooo.

You can literally learn to do that in under 3 months.

I feel that, with all this plur and hippie bullshit, you have to be one with yourself and actually master yourself if you want to be productive in a creative market.

all the business and shit can be dealt with the right type of trusting person, but as a creator you really have to master yourself to a point where you are ok and can learn from messing up.