SAMPLING TECHINQUES

Use of Sampling Techniques in Hip Hop Music



Use of Sampling Techniques in Hip Hop Music

Introduction

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program on a digital computer. Sampling is also possible with loops of magnetic tape with a reel-to-reel tape machine.

Discussion

Hip hop is the only genre that allows talking about almost anything. Musically it allows sampling and playing and creating poetry of the beat music. “It is highly controversial, but that's the way the game is (Rahn 2002 pp 97-101).” Hip-Hop writers are often accused of being to close to the music to the artists and to the scene. That's mostly because of the words which are used in hip-hop, there is a special hip-hop slang that expresses our daily life and this slang is some kind of vulgar expressing. But people like that, even it is unethical or even the religious concepts. And there no coexistence of hip hop with “high elite”, and these expressing is some kind of response to high elite. That hip-hop artist wants to say that they have their own life, and they don't care whatever society thinks about them, because it is their way of expressing art.

Often "samples" consist of one part of a song used in another, for instance the use of the drum introduction from Led Zeppelin's “When the Levee Breaks" in songs by the Beastie Boys, Mike Old-field and Erasure, and the guitar riffs from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" in Tone-Loc is an American rapper and actor. His tracks "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" were immensely successful in fact, "Wild Thing", which was co-written by Young MC, was the first top ten hit for a black rapper according to all music. Both his album's "Funky Cold Medina". "Samples" in this sense occur often in hip hop Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban, African American & Puerto Rican youth in New York and has since spread around the world. The four main elements of hip-hop are MCing, DJing, graffiti art, and break dancing. Some consider beat boxing and R&B, but are becoming more common in other music, as well.

Nowadays there is a big globalization in music industry (Towers 2003 p 52). People get into their cars and listen to music, you walk into a shopping centre and they are playing music; walk into a restaurant and they are playing music too, people listen to music in their work place as well. Runners listen to music as they exercise. Everybody listens to music! Everywhere at anytime! Try to go on line and among other links on Travel, Stock Quotes, Sports or Entertainment, you'll find a link on Music. And a good example of it is a saling industry, for example CDs placed the vinyl records, which were really popular at its ...