Electronic Music and Sampling

[Glassman]

I listen to a wide range of music, some of which is well in the electronic 'genre'. Under this heading are many other sub-genres, such as glitch hop.

Listening to artists such as Bicep, Bonobo, Burial, Rival Consoles and Ross From Friends et al, what fascinates me is the use of samples. whosampled.com is a great site to see where they came from but the fascination lies in how did they get to that particular two-second sample!?

Burial uses a one-second sample on one of his tracks and the mind boggles how he recognised that sound from a movie and thought it would sound great in a track (which it does).

[spitfire-ian]

If you’ve got Apple TV+ there’s a good little series presented by Mark Ronson called Watch The Music. He covers sampling in one of those and I found it fascinating to watch.

[Glassman]

spitfire-ian said:

If you’ve got Apple TV+

Nope. Ditched Apple and everything associated several years ago.

[GetCarter]

Glassman said:

Nope. Ditched Apple and everything associated several years ago.

Top tip. If you're interested in anything music, the last thing you'll want to do is ditch everything Apple.

[Glassman]

dibbers006 said:

You might enjoy this Prodigy breakdown... LINK

Genius

[fat80b]

Glassman said:

Genius

There’s a few of these that are quite interesting. They make it seem easy!

Also check out Rachel K Collier who does some nice Ableton walkthroughs that go into what it takes to make some tracks..

https://youtu.be/EFPlbjVnkTU

[GnuBee]

Andrew Huang's Four Producers One Sample series is a good watch to see what skilled people can do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_8msY0R9G4 is a great example