Cutting
up music and putting it together in layers to create
something bland. Best to get hold of some real musicians
and create something with feel.
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.
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 Oldfield and Erasure,
and the guitar riffs from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded"
in Tone-Loc's "Funky Cold Medina". "Samples"
in this sense occur often in hip hop and R&B, but
are becoming more common in other music, as well.
