Nate Harrison’s 2004 documentary Can I Get an Amen? on the “Amen Break”, uncovers the story behind one of the seminal breaks of the electronica/jungle/drum...

Rip, Mix, and Burn? It’s not new. Contrafact is what they called sampling before there was sampling. You take the chords from a song that the whole band know...

Following up on the "digging through the crates" meme of a few days ago, here’s a really complete database of samples and their origins that I foun...

Nice recounting of the sources for many common samples, called These Are the Breaks . I have a bad habit in our office of Napstering down whatever track provi...

A semi-rhetorical question today : When is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscar people) going to have to distinguish what constitute...