Without arguing about it, I will just say that isnt something that everyone tends to see the same way as you.



Sampling is not about lining up 20 tracks, cutting what you like out of each of them and replaying it and calling it something unique.



Sampling comes for a few different reasons.



I reason that we run into alot, especially in techno is vocal samples. Because of the way the music is created, and the fact that MIDI while wonderful in most respects is just useless for vocals, our choices for vocals are either speaking or singing it ourselves, or getting samples from other locations. Getting the samples works out better most of the time because you just cant duplicate some of the wacky things that get said or the way they get said.



Another part of sampling is from cross-genre. Finding certain small aspects of tracks not found in your own genre, and molding them into what fits yours, and adding things on top of it to make it sound what fits your style alot better.



Take a sculptor. Its considered a fine art, but all they are doing is taking a big hunk of rock they found somewhere else and molding it into what they see when they look at it. Sampling done right for musical bars is very similar to that.



And third, we all make music for different reasons each time. One track might be to completely express ourselves, our moods, trying to put what happens in life into a musical form. But thats not just it. Part of creating music is also for other people to appreciate it, and sometimes just to get them up and dance.



Sampling done well and properly is not an inherent infringement on other peoples creations, nor is it a fast track way to creating music you otherwise cant.



Maybe its not "pure" music, but what really is. Even the music you create on your own is almost always influenced by what you listen to. How far off is sampling from that when you break it down note by note.



Mike


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