Sampling

In music, sampling is the act of taking one bit of a song/audio media and putting it to a different use from its first intended context.

It can go from different songs, like…

Fatboy Slim’s Praise you.

Grabbing tracks from different, already known songs.

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To Nirvana’s Smells like teen spirit.

Grabbing drum beats from disco’s Gap Band.

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To Billie Eilish’s Australian crosswalk signal in Bad Guy

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All of them are original in their very own ways

It’s more than just a copy.
Even doing a cover, it’s different (and it hits different). Like Baker Boy covering Blur’s Song 2

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Here’s the thing

Your work can also be viewed, with depth, as sampling (and creative).

You’re taking things from different roles, experiences, perspectives, and applying them into a new context, with your own twists.

Even when you use them in their own, in combination with the other things, you get to see the remix.

Now, what’s your best sampling? 🙂