I’ve been getting in to sampling more over the last couple of years, as I’ve moved to focus more on hip-hop. Really keen on grungy boom-bap beats, and I’m enjoying the workflow of having samples limit my knob tweaking.

I do find actually finding samples a struggle sometimes, and also knowing how and where to use them. Trial and error works, eventually, but sometimes the error part drags on and gets a bit off-putting. So I’m wondering about approaches or ways of thinking about it that might improve my hit rate.

Any thoughts/tips/questions/rants?

Edit: to be clear, I’m not only interest in hip-hop, or hip-hop suitable sampling approaches. I’m interested in sampling methods for any scenario.

  • naught101@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    Shadow is a favourite, I’ve been listening to him for nearly 20 years. I went to see him last year. He’s fucking next level though, I can’t comprehend the patience it would require to do what he does. Blockhead is similar.

    If you’re in to that stuff, you REALLY should check out Kognitif’s Soul Food Album - IMO the most under-rated instrumental hip-hop album ever, I love it so much.

    I’ve been really digging El-P’s production lately. It seems a little bit simpler, less going on, but it hits super hard. Still requires years to develop that that taste for what samples should go where, I think.