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20 famous songs and the iconic video games they sampled

by Tom Cameron

Since they first hit the world, video games have served as inspiration for countless musicians. These 20 tracks paid homage to the art form by…

  • Enmore Audio
  • Features

Examining the role of orchestral sample libraries in modern production

by Josh Davies

Have you ever wondered where small budget reality TV series get the money and time to record a full orchestral score four times a week?…

  • News

Library of Congress creates royalty-free sampling tool for hip-hop artists

by James Peppercorn

In an unprecedented move, the Library of Congress have opened up their vaults of audio collections for producers. The recordings cover a wide array of…

  • Music

Gil Scott-Heron comes full circle with Makaya McCraven’s ‘We’re New Again’

by Claudia Schmidt

Gil Scott-Heron released I’m New Here in 2010. It may seem strange for an artist considered so influential – he’s often thought to be the…

  • News

Billie Eilish sampled a Sydney pedestrian crossing in ‘bad guy’

by Claudia Schmidt

Everything is coming up Billie Eilish at the moment. The American singer recently cleaned up at the Grammy Awards – taking home a whopping six…

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  • Features

Engineering the Sound: Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’

by Jonathan Mendolicchio

You’ll be hard-pressed to find Beyoncé’s Lemonade absent from many ‘Best of the Decade’ lists. Clocking in at just under 46 minutes, Lemonade brings us…

  • Interviews

Captain Earwax chats his new album, ancient folk music, and production processes

by Sarah Gillard

Captain Earwax is the musical moniker of Australian multidisciplinary artist Daniel O’Toole. His latest album Volcano Toast is a stunning masterwork of dense, intricate, and texturally gorgeous…

  • Enmore Audio
  • Features

The Fairlight CMI: an orchestra in a box that rewrote electronic music

by Max Mahood

In the late 1970s, right here in Sydney, there was an auditory revolution that was being developed by two men, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie,…

  • Enmore Audio
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The masterful musical thievery of Daft Punk

by Michael Smith

Daft Punk are masters of sampling and Discovery was their masterpiece. But did they cross that line between thievery and adaption for art’s sake? Did…

  • News

Watch WhoSampled.com’s Chris Read give a 30-minute lecture on the history of sampling

by Happy

As part of an ongoing event at Point Blank Music School in London, Chris Read has given a 30-minute workshop detailing the history of sampling….

  • Music

Milo – A Toothpaste Suburb

by Shayen de Silva

A few months ago I wrote piece on an emerging rapper from Chicago known in the hip-hop community as Milo, and at the time I lamented that I…

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