"What were the skies like when you were young?": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and ...
MusicRadar

"He came and said, 'Are you going to pay me for that sample?' We said 'Oh, we already paid you', and he went ‘No – you paid somebody else'": Fatboy Slim on The …

"There was four different samples on it we had to clear, and they all wanted 40% or 50%... we were like, 'You can all have 25 ...
The Cheat Sheet

Charlamagne Tha God Defends Rapper Saweetie Against Backlash For Sampling Music From Other Artists

Saweetie released her new single “Tap In,” which samples rapper Too Short’s 2007 hit “Blow The Whistle.” Prior to “Tap In,” Saweetie rose to popularity with other hit singles that were also sampled ...
Indy Week

How the Internet, like George Clinton before it, has reinvigorated sampling

The musical output of George Clinton hinges on an unimpeachable run from 1970 to 1982. During that time, Clinton slapped together doped-up, proto-disco like “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the ...
IPWatchdog

No Infringement Intended: Insights on the Legality of Music Sampling

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.
Yahoo

When sampling ruled the world - and drummers didn’t get paid!

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Despite being much maligned, the 80s were an incredibly interesting and vibrant time musically speaking. The dust was beginning to settle on the punk phenomenon, and that can-do ...