About Me

I love listening to lots of different types of music.  I particularly like electronic music and hip-hop, where sampling is prevalent.  I love it when I hear a new track and recognise a sample, or when I thought a track I knew was completely original and then I hear the hook on something else older.  I really love how some samples like the amen break or the dem bow riddim have come to define entire sub genres of music.  It  amuses me when artists discover the same samples and use them around the same period independently like with Ike's Rap II by Isaac Hayes, sampled by both Portishead and Tricky in 1995, or the The Gunter Kallmann Choir version of Daydream (which in turn was a cover of The Wallace Collection) sampled by both "I, Monster" and "The Beta Band" in 2001.  I see the use of samples in music as a valid aspect of modern composition and production, although I am cynical of the blatant rip-offs in some modern pop music where due respect is not paid to the original.