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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"It's a context issue, because not every sample is a huge chunk of a song. [...] An example that's often brought up in court when we get sued over sampling is a Biz Markie track where he more or less used a whole Gilbert O'Sullivan song. Because it was such an obvious sample, it's the example lawyers use when trying to prove that sampling is stealing. And that's really frustrating to us as artists who sample, because sampling can be a totally different thing than that."''
|'''Adam Yauch''' of the [[Beastie Boys]], on the legal issues of sampling, ''[https://www.wired.com/2004/11/beastie/ The Remix Masters]'' (''Wired'' interview)}}
{{quote|''"If creativity is a field, copyright is the fence."''
|'''John Oswald''', written on his [[Myspace]] profile}}
Taking a portion of an existing musical work, and putting it in a show, video, or another musical work. Not to be confused with interpolation, which is ''replaying'' the said portion.
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Now it's unoriginal by definition, but it's not copyright infringement, as long as the source is either public domain or properly licensed out. And done right, it can be a great way to add mood to an extra work. Sadly, copyright law is still extremely murky in this area, as most rap producers in [[The Eighties]] ignored the laws without consequence, and only a few landmark lawsuits, such as the ''Grand Upright Music Ltd. vs. Warner Bros. Records Inc.'' case of 1991 established that sampling must be approved by original copyright owners.
There are many methods of sampling, but the most widespread nowadays and the one attracting the most [[Hatedom]] is the "loop-it-and-leave-it" method, which basically implies sampling a part of or a whole song, repeating it, and then rapping over it. This often attracts criticism because of its "lazy" and "unoriginal" nature. Compare, for example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTiaKzDFDmY "I'll Be Missing You"] by Puff Daddy, with its telegraphed-from-a-mile-away easily recognizable sample (from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YbBHVF4g "Every Breath You Take"] by [[
If you're interested in lists of who sampled what and where, [http://www.the-breaks.com/ The-Breaks] and [http://www.whosampled.com Who Sampled] are great reference sites.
[[Rock Me, Amadeus]] is a [[Sub-Trope]]. [[Sampled Up]] is where the sampler eclipses the samplee.
{{examples|Examples should be either non-straight, due [[Seen It a Million Times|to the widespread use of it]], or particularly notable:}}▼
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== Alternative ==▼
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▲== Alternative ==
* ''Negativland''.
** Speaking of which, they got in trouble for sampling [[
*** Casey Kasem was probably less than thrilled with the use of some of his swearier outtakes.
* [[Radiohead]] makes some interesting usage of samples:
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*** The song's [[Uncommon Time|bizarre beat]] and the background chirps were reportedly created from playing a ton of records all at the same time (creating white noise) and feeding them through a drum machine.
** "Kinetic" samples the drums from "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" by [[Miles Davis]].
** "Cuttooth" samples the bassline from [[The Beatles (band)|"If I Needed Someone."]] This is speculated to be the reason that the track (well-liked by the band and a favorite among fans) was [[Wasted Song|left off of "Amnesiac" and relegated to the "Knives Out" single]]- Beatles samples are notoriously expensive, so hiding the track someplace where only hardcore fans would find it would get the song out there, but decrease the likelihood of the band from being sued.
** "Dollars and Cents" samples an Alice Coltrane song for the bass.
** There's a very well-hidden sample in "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy." The recurring downward melody appears to be played by a keyboard or distorted string instruments- but if you speed the song up, it's revealed to be a loop of a choir doing vocal exercises.
** "Motion Picture Soundtrack"'s harp parts are sampled from various old Disney movies.
** "Give Up the Ghost" and "Codex" feature sampled bird noises, which [[Fading Into the Next Song|serve to transition from the former to the latter.]]
== Electronic ==
* The album version of "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden contained a sample from (of all things) a [[
▲* The album version of "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden contained a sample from (of all things) a [[Dexters Laboratory (Animation)|Dial M For Monkey]] cartoon.
* Virtually every track from the Goa Trance and Psychedelic Trance genres samples a movie, usually a sci-fi one.
* The JAMS got in trouble for sampling ABBA. [[wikipedia:Who Killed The JAMs
* "Cola Bottle Baby" got sped up and sampled into "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by [[
** Kanye himself is one of the most prolific samplers in the industry; see [[Kanye West|his page]].
** Although West only sampled the new Daft Punk vocals, so the original melody is kind of lost.
** [[
*** Daft Punk does a lot of sampling, actually. It's fun to try to figure out which parts are samples and where the samples came from.
*** In fact, the reason their album ''Discovery'' received the nicknames ''veryDisco'' and ''Disco? Very!'' was partly because of the sampling on the album.
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* The only thing that '''wasn't''' sampled in [[The Residents]]' ''The Tunes of Two Cities'' was vocals and guitar.
* Girl Talk has released two CDs of mashup songs each composed solely of a dozen or so samples each. A whole host of music users thank the fair use doctrine for allowing him to do so.
* The French group [[Justice]] do microsampling (Using split-second samples). Their first album has over 400 samples.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfDQg2dF8uw "Newjack"] stands out for using microsampling on a single song; The Brothers Johnson's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1FAh-RCsBk "You Make Me Wanna Wiggle".] The result is almost unrecognizable.
* [[The Avalanches]] is this trope personified, using sampling in all of their songs with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77Twjp0BDk varying] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE success].
** Their album ''Since I Left You'' used over 3500 LP samples to make a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|pièce de resistance]] of sampling.
* Sampling video game music is surprisingly more common than one would think. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faf0wdMHiTA "Diplo Rhythm"] takes its beat from a most unlikely source: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKugau_Vw6I Ocean's NES game] based on ''[[Platoon]]''.
* The "cosmic forces beyond all comprehension" line from ''[[Buck Rogers in
* Basshunter based "DOTA" and "All I Ever Wanted" on Daddy DJ's self-titled song, and sampled Reel 2 Real's "I Like to Move It" in "Saturday", his latest single.
** As a meta-example, "I Like to Move It" samples the "yeaaaaaaah" vocal from Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel".
* Covenant's "Shelter" is built around a sample from ''[[The Atomic Cafe]]'': "The atom bomb explodes again!" :nuclear explosion:(several times) "Atomic energy." :sirens: :birds chirping: :explosion: :explosion: :explosion: for the rest of the song.
* ''The Atomic Cafe'' was also sampled on [[KMFDM]]'s ''Don't Blow Your Top'' album, particularly in "Oh Look".
== Folk ==
* Reportedly, [[Sufjan Stevens]]' album ''Enjoy Your Rabbit'' had extensive sampling... from songs that Stevens had recorded himself and never released.
== Hip Hop ==
* Arguable [[Trope Codifier]] - [[The KLF]], which stands for Kopyright Liberation Foundation. They were art-terrorist types who built a musical career on silly, blatant sampling done with no permission, [[Troll|upsetting a lot of people]]. Particularly [[
* The groups which have used this technique to [[Quality
▲* Arguable [[Trope Codifier]] - [[The KLF]], which stands for Kopyright Liberation Foundation. They were art-terrorist types who built a musical career on silly, blatant sampling done with no permission, [[Troll|upsetting a lot of people]]. Particularly [[ABBA (Music)|ABBA]].
▲* The groups which have used this technique to [[Quality By Popular Vote|most critical acclaim]] are: the [[Beastie Boys (Music)|Beastie Boys]] ([[wikipedia:Paulchr(27)s Boutique|''Paul's Boutique'']], produced in collaboration with the Dust Brothers and sampling a whopping total of 105 songs/movies), Public Enemy (the Bomb Squad were famous for creating noisy, intense songs from lots of samples at once), DJ Shadow ([[wikipedia:Endtroducing|''Endtroducing....'']]) and [[Esham (Music)|Esham]] ([[wikipedia:Judgement Day (album)|''Judgement Day'']]).
** And when Public Enemy did build a song ("he got game") around one recognizable sample, the signature harmonic riff from Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," they [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|actually got Steven Stills to sing the bridge for them and appear in the video]].
** As Spike TV [https://web.archive.org/web/20130717004434/http://www.spike.com/articles/fm8o7q/the-top-10-classic-albums-that-accidentally-ruined-music pointed out], ''Paul's Boutique'' probably helped the copyright laws that lead to a lesser number of samples to appear.
* The [[
* A rare example of a song from an anime being sampled in a Western track would be a sample from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_p-nhZXLg "Rain] by [[Yoko Kanno]] sped up to produce [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iviaSSEdHtE "The Rain"] by indie hip hop artist [[Tech
** Another example can be found in Fat Jon's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEVpCu-9qro "Talk To Me"], which samples "Melfina's Song" from ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. Granted, this ''is'' the guy who later went on to co-write the soundtrack for ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''...
** Das Racist sampled the closing credits theme to ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' in their song "Rappin 2 U". Apparently rappers love [[Shinichiro Watanabe]] (which isn't really that surprising).
** [[MF DOOM]] (as one of his [[Split Personality|many alter egos]] King Geedorah) sampled incidental music from ''[[Gatchaman]]'' in his song "The Fine Print".
* Wiz Khalifa's song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls "Never Been"] samples "Schala's Theme" from [[
** The Green Hill Zone theme from [[Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)|''Sonic the Hedgehog'']] was used as the background effect in "Ms. Rightfernow".
* Mr. Scruff likewise builds a great deal of his music out of samples. Probably his best-
* The "Oh-wha-oh!" from The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" was sampled for "Check It Out" by [[
** Also in Orbital's "Don't Stop Me".
* Puff Daddy and his Bad Boy record label often get the worst criticism for simplistic sampling methods. One example is "Come With Me", which samples from [[Led Zeppelin
* Rapper A-1 did an album, ''After School Special'', where each song samples the theme song of and is about a show he used to watch as a kid, including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MulyRk70I5E Reading Rainbow], Nickelodeon's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZC2sZkyoFA All That], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a07dDvHqsNw Pokemon].
* Rapper Fabolous samples "Dance of Curse" from [[Vision of Escaflowne]] in the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_8Z1lPru_A Body Bag].
* Producer The 45 King sampled the chorus "It's a Hard Knock Life" from [[The Musical]] ''[[
* Flo Rida garnered a truly legendary amount of backlash and hatedom over his songs "Right Round" and "Sugar", which shamelessly sample Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and Eifel 65's "Blue" respectively.
* Rap group [[
* Play the [[
* [[
* Kool G Rap sampled the ''[[
** Another ''FFVII'' example, rapper Cam'ron samples "One Wing Angel" in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ZWWm17yLs&playnext=1&list=PL4FAFE7373A6B5E64 "Troublemakers"].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8EJ2zrkncs This rap] samples the track [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xrRuhuHyic "Star of Darkness"] from ''[[Secret of Mana]]''.
* Bun B samples Justice on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eboEKCp_Jcc "On to the Next Year"]
* [[
* As this ''Genius'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPyl1DHeQGQ video] showcases, Doug E. Fresh and MC Ricky D (AKA Slick Rick)'s "La Di Da Di" has been sampled or interpolated over 800 times. Some examples include:
** [[The Notorious B.I.G.]] - "Hypnotize" (the chorus was [[Sampled Up]])
** [[Miley Cyrus]] - "We Can't Stop"
** [[Robbie Williams]] - "Rock DJ"
** [[Beyoncé]] - "Party"
** [[Ludacris]] - "Runaway Love"
** [[N.W.A.]] - "Gangsta Gangsta"
** [[Tupac Shakur]] - "Lost Souls"
** [[Snoop Dogg]] - "Lodi Dodi"
** [[Eminem]] - "Quitter"
** [[Ice Cube]] - "Stop Snitchin"
** [[50 Cent]] - "I'm on It"
== Metal ==
* Some bands do this in reverse, taking sound clips from movies or tv shows and inserting them into their songs. Dream Theater in particular does this often, a good chunk of "Space-Dye Vest" is made up of sound bites, and the first minute or so of "The Great Debate" is news clips.
** [
* Dragonforce used the ''[[Double Dragon]]'' theme in one of their songs. Although it wasn't a direct sample. It was a guitar riff.
* [[White Zombie]] is a rare (non industrial) metal example in using extensive sampling, mostly from old B movies, with some Rush Limbaugh, Batman, and Manson Family thrown in.
* [[Mike Patton|Mr. Bungle]] used samples heavily in their self-titled debut, mostly from NES games, but also two infamous clips from a porno and a puppet show that share the band's name.
* [[Machinae Supremacy]] has movie dialogue samples in some of their songs. For example, in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdmOzA0i6 Hybrid]'':
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== Multiple ==
* Ur-Example - The [[Amen Break]] from an otherwise unknown song "Amen Brother". Used
** Another Ur-Example: The Funky Drummer break, used [https://web.archive.org/web/20131013132314/http://www.the-breaks.com/search.php?term=
▲* Ur-Example - The [[Amen Break]] from an otherwise unknown song "Amen Brother". Used many times in underground techno, by famous [[Dn B]] artists (Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, et cetera), and rap.
▲** Another Ur-Example: The Funky Drummer break, used [http://www.the-breaks.com/search.php?term=Funky+Drummer&type=4 an insane amount of times], and which also managed to spread beyond hip-hop and into pop.
* John Bonham's drum break from [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "When the Levee Breaks" is a perennial favourite with samplers, as is the synthesizer riff from Tubeway Army's "Are 'Friends' Electric".
== Pop ==
* Probably the earliest use of sampling was [[The Beatles (
▲* Probably the earliest use of sampling was [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]]' "I Am The Walrus", on which they (with permission) used samples from a BBC Radio production of ''[[King Lear]]''.
== Punk ==
* The 80's [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|glam-punk]] band Sigue Sigue Sputnik loved sampling from sci-fi movies such as ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
▲* The 80's [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|glam-punk]] band Sigue Sigue Sputnik loved sampling from sci-fi movies such as ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''.
* In probably the outright laziest cut and paste example, Jason
▲== R & B ==
▲* In probably the outright laziest cut and paste example, Jason [[De Rulo]]'s "Whatcha Say" samples "Hide and Seek" by [[Imogen Heap]]; not just the beat, the ACTUAL CLIP FROM THE SONG, lyrics and all.
** And then he outdid himself with "Don't Wanna Go Home", which not only interpolates the chorus from "The Banana Boat Song", but also samples the backbeat from Robin S.' "Show Me Love". With a random Lil Jon line also thrown in for good measure.
** "Fight For You" heavily samples "Africa" by Toto.
== Rock ==
* The Verve: "Bittersweet Symphony", sampling an orchestral rendition of the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time". The Rolling Stones' manager sued, won, got royalties and credits on the album. The band broke up shortly thereafter because they'd made no profit after the lawsuit.
* On two separate occasions, Eels have sampled ''themselves'': "Efil's God" is largely based around backwards loops of earlier track "Dog's Life", while a short violin phrase in "Selective Memory" later was prominently looped in "Fresh Feeling".
* Mark De Gli Antoni of Soul Coughing built his keyboard lines entirely out of samples from multiple sources, some from his own work pre-dating the band itself. At least two Soul Coughing songs ("Bus To Beelzebub" and "Disseminated") are built almost entirely around Raymond Scott samples.
* [[
* [[Sublime]] was notorious for sampling, not just actual parts of songs but lyrics as well, most famous example: "Doin' Time" ("Summertime" from ''[[Porgy and Bess]]''), but most of their songs had at least one sample.
* Fastball's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wfu3tOrtQ "The Way"] begins with a series of sampled clips amidst the sounds of a television changing channels. One of the sampled sounds is a vocal clip from Jewel's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNoouLa7uxA "Foolish Games"].
* "Acid Drops" by [[Public Image Ltd]] samples "God Save The Queen" by [[The Sex Pistols]], John Lydon's previous band. The effect is sort of interesting - because the vocal sample is being used in a song with a slower tempo and a different chord progression, it can sound like John Lydon has just started singing the line "no future" towards the end as a self-reference... Then the rest of the music drops out and it becomes apparent that it's a loop taken straight from the Sex Pistols song.
== Soundtracks ==
* Possibly the weirdest example ever: the opening theme song to the ''[[Hellsing]]'' OVA, "A World Without Logos," samples from "When You Wish Upon a Star." It's nigh-impossible to pick out unless you know ''exactly'' what you're listening for.
** More specifically, listen for the flute sample at about 2:10 into the song. The surrounding strings are also part of the sample, but the flute melody is particularly distinctive.
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