Comments on: The History of Sampling

The History of Sampling

srboisvert — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:19:13 -0800

The History of Sampling

By: Silky Slim

Silky Slim — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:21:04 -0800

BIG ASS JAVA APPLET!

By: Silky Slim

Silky Slim — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:23:46 -0800

uhh... sorry.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:50:54 -0800

BIG ASS JAVA APPLET! ahhh... that's why I'm seeing an empty page. Currently too groggy to figure this out on my own. Thanks.

By: ibmcginty

ibmcginty — Tue, 10 May 2005 05:39:55 -0800

am steering clear of Java-based stuff today...

By: AlexReynolds

AlexReynolds — Tue, 10 May 2005 06:10:26 -0800

Java != JavaScript

By: googly

googly — Tue, 10 May 2005 06:31:58 -0800

Well I thought its was a nice little interface. 'Cept for that bug right around the Audio Two link.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 10 May 2005 06:38:23 -0800

That's neat. (You have to click on it after you get the bigass empty page). It's not really a history, but it is a pretty cool timeline...

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 10 May 2005 06:51:26 -0800

Call me back when this is available in Flash.

By: beelzbubba

beelzbubba — Tue, 10 May 2005 06:55:21 -0800

thanks, klang. I couldn't load the java on this l'il iBook--took forever; i was suspicious that it was not an authentic history. maybe i'll try again later. Did it start with Tristan Tzara? or much later with the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (KLF)?

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Tue, 10 May 2005 07:00:38 -0800

This is pretty sweet. What I don't understand is how one song can sample another song that was released after the sampling song came out. Example: the far right sampled song on the bottom looks like it came out 1997, while the sampling song looks like it came out in 1994.

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Tue, 10 May 2005 07:05:21 -0800

Did it start with Tristan Tzara? or much later with the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (KLF)? Or perhaps the Mellotron flamenco loop at the beginning of Bungalow Bill on the Beatles' White Album? Or musique concrète in general? (Special mentions for My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Holger Czukay's album Movies)

By: TheNakedPixel

TheNakedPixel — Tue, 10 May 2005 07:56:12 -0800

How can this timeline not incorporate audio of the samples?! Or perhaps I misssed it...?

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Tue, 10 May 2005 07:56:25 -0800

I can't seem to find the Winstons' "Amen Brother" on here, I figured it had to be the Most Sampled Thing Ever. I've used it myself (replayed by another drummer though).

By: CrunchyGods

CrunchyGods — Tue, 10 May 2005 08:40:31 -0800

Dang, I was hoping to find out if Steve Reich was really the first sampler or not. Not that kind of history, I guess.

By: beelzbubba

beelzbubba — Tue, 10 May 2005 10:47:10 -0800

Not a history at all, now that I get it to load on my pc (never did load on my iBook), but rather a map of who's zoomin' who, if you will. Interesting, but I fear hopelessly incomplete.

By: beelzbubba

beelzbubba — Tue, 10 May 2005 10:47:59 -0800

nice though. don't get me wrong--i ain't ag'in it.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:19:28 -0800

Steve Reich isn't the first sampler. A lot of musique concrete from the 40s and 50s used tape loops as starting material. And if you consider lifting parts of written scores into other written scores as sampling, it goes back hundreds of years.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Tue, 10 May 2005 12:39:06 -0800

This is mostly concerned with hip-hop sampling, as they got their info from the-breaks.com. That site has a lot more than the applet, so if you're looking for real info, that's the place to go.