CHOPPING UP (ON) SAMPLES

The other week, Thes One and I teamed up to talk about the ethos of sampling at USC as part of a lecture series they had this past year on sampling. I though it was a great, wide-ranging conversation with at least two highlights: 1) Thes using an ancient Gemini mixer with built-in sampler to recreate the “Funky Lemonade (Remix)” loop. 2) Thes showing that you can pretty much chop up anything into a decent beat by using how he Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.” The whole convo is worth...

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