Unit 5: The History of Sampling in Music


What is sampling?

Sampling is taking a recording and using it in a new track. this could range from a melody, vocal line, or drum beat. The sampled material is often altered such as being looped, sped up, slowed down or modified with effects.

Can we identify when artists started using sampling as a technique?

The use of of sampling in music can be traced back to the 1940s to 1950s. in the 1950s and 1960s, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in France were pioneers of Musique Concrete, which involved using tape recorders to manipulate recorders and create compositions. The Beetles also experimented with tape loops, this was more about using prerecorded sounds as textures and effects rather than direct sampling of artists' songs.

Two important early devices and their basic features

Vintage Rewind: Fairlight CMI

Fairlight CMI

Basic Features: Digital Samples, Polyphonic playback, Sound editing, Sampling resolutionAkai Professional MPC Key 37 | GAK

Akai MPC

Basic Features: 16 Pads, simplicity and workflow, sampling and sequencing, sampling capabilities, and a built in sequencer.

Two example of tracks that have obvious use of sampling

"The Prisoner" is a track by Iron Maiden off of the Album "the number of the beast"
at the beginning of the track there is an audio clip from the 4th episode of the 1967 hit show "The Prisoner".

"War Pigs" is a song from the 1970s album "Paranoid" made by legendary heavy metal band "Black Sabbath" in the song we hear sirens going off, which is something that is obviously sampled. where did they sample it from? i have no clue, could be anywhere.

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