The way Daft Punk flipped the sample for One More Time

Love it! One of my favorite is Chris Read - he did some extended mixes for Whosampled, mixing the subject album and its originals into one stream. Wonderful explorative experience.

https://www.mixcloud.com/whosampled/jay-z-the-samples-mixed-...

That’s my favourite production tutorial video of all times. Probably because The Prodigy has been The Beatles of my generation.

A huge percentage of hip-hop and electronic music is essentially this, sampling and remixing segments of other songs.

Old school DJs since forever have been known to keep absolutely massive libraries of records going back to the beginning of sound recording, and to actually listen to them constantly - always searching for new and interesting sounds that can be used in new music.

I always found this aspect and type of music production so interesting - at this point in human history, more sounds and music have been made than almost anyone can listen to and appreciate on their own, so in a way DJs and remix artists are like archeologists, digging through a century of recordings to uncover, polish, and present a rare gem of sound in a new setting.

While there absolutely are (great) artists in the dance music world recording their own acoustic instrumental riffs or vocals, I'd feel comfortable betting that a majority of the tracks we know and love that feature recorded parts like that are sampling someone else. Its part of the art form, and certainly anyone who has ever DJ'd is familiar with the idea of making something new and great from someone else's initial creation.

Dance music is samples all the way down - sometimes even samples of other tracks that sampled some other genre.

A classic example is an amen break loop. Probably the most sampled sound of all times.

https://youtu.be/v89CjsSOJ_c

This was my impression too. It's literally just chopping the sample, no?

yea it really is

The process itself might be simple, but they are skilled artisans of it. "Anyone can do it" ... but very few do it as well as them.

From a layman's perspective, it's impressive, but more importantly, the transformation is surprising, especially considering the specificity of the choices that apparently have to be made. Maybe he was speaking from a layman's perspective?