Do you non-hip-hop guys do this? (music discovery)

**Sigma** · 10-14-2012, 12:08 PM

When I first got into hip-hop I just took it for what it was. A lot of it was kinda primitive sounding and made with drum machines. Some early tracks had session musicians replaying sections of popular songs rather than sampling them.

But when sampling became a huge thing in hip-hop, it also had another effect on me - It made me think "I wonder what the song that this hip-hop tune is sampling sounds like?". That led me into a whole new world of funk, breaks and all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff. It made me get into artists that I would never have otherwise heard of. I bought their music. In some cases, I liked the original song more than the hip-hop track that sampled it.

For example, if I'd never heard this: -

Or this: -

I'd probably never have heard this, which is the original source of the sample: -

I know a lot of EDM isn't so sample-heavy, but some of it is. Groups like The Prodigy and Daft Punk use a lot of samples, for example. So have any guys that aren't into hip-hop experienced a similar thing to me when it comes to discovering a whole new world of music?

**ezelkow1** · 10-14-2012, 12:55 PM

Not so much with the most recent EDM, but back in the bigbeat/disco/french days most definitely since their entire tracks were just various cut up samples. It was always fun either tracking them down, or when you would randomly hear a sample that sounded familiar in the full song and then spend a whole afternoon going through tracks to find the one it was used in. I also loved that fatboy released a whole cd of just the original tracks for some of his more famous tracks, just seemed to show his appreciation for where his stuff came from. They seemed to have lost that recently, just look at all of tracks all using the same damn etta james sample, and not very creatively at that

**DJ Matt** · 10-14-2012, 01:04 PM

the Salsa music genre is very common for contemporary artists to do covers of older classics from the 70s or before that, and many times it has lead me to discover more about some of the artists from those days. the sound qulity is better nowdays obviously, but often times the original is way better in terms of the quality of the musicians.

so, yep, similar situation.

**Dandruff** · 10-14-2012, 01:06 PM

For sure man, I love it! I always look for which originals produced the samples

**Era 7** · 10-14-2012, 01:36 PM

yup. even though with electronic music i often wind up with samples from TV. still pretty cool.

**Nick Bike** · 10-14-2012, 04:29 PM

the old stuff is why i go to record stores. that's where all the good shit is.

**Smallz** · 10-14-2012, 05:38 PM

Any music that credits its samples i look it up and listen. it's amazing to hear artists interpretation and innovation on some of these sound bytes, even if they only take a couple seconds of it.

This gives me huge respect for someone like DJ Shadow. So many samples combined into single tracks it blows my mind.

**djknowledge** · 10-14-2012, 10:12 PM

ive built a sample and record collection JUST for that reason. Sampling in hip hop, or any other genre for that matter intrigues me.

**tuurrtles** · 10-15-2012, 08:25 AM

I don't do this with EDM but I've always thought of doing it for Hip Hop. Never actually tried it though.

So where can I find the credits for the sample in the hip hop song? Is there a good website for this? I'm sure when you spin this stuff out at clubs it gets people going!