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ARTIST: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
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ARTIST: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
listen to my noise pollution
Unsettling choice of sampling, Man of Action. Knew I recognized that royalty free music from somewhere.
Video taken from The Avenging Spider-Man Part 1, or season 3 episode 1. The audio is Scary - Background Sounds.
Coffee Break - Zeds Dead
Taking a sample of Say A Little Prayer from a classic Aretha Franklin song back in 2011, the classic Zeds Dead song, “Coffee Break.”
Sampling is still a vital part of hip-hop. A new online service called Tracklib has made the process easier than ever. Is this a good thing?
A new music tech service called Tracklib has the mission of helping artists and producers make sure their samples are cleared before hitting the airwaves. It’s the first and only digital music sampling service of its kind. The platform is an ever-growing library of samples producers can use without the stress of worrying if they are cleared by publishers and labels.
It’s free to sign-up for the digital crate digging service. The platform allows users to buy tracks for $1.99. Once a song is ready to be released there are three licensing categories priced at $50, $500, and $2500, depending on how much of the song is sampled. Licenses cost as little as $50, plus a 2% revenue share with the original rights-holders.
Tracklib was founded by serial entrepreneur Pär Almqvist. The service launched back in April. The goal? Make sampling fast, easy, and affordable.
“It’s really helping people discover great original recordings from all over the world. So the core of it is really digital crate-digging,” Almqvist said.
Almqvist has recruited sampling vets like Tom Silverman, founder of Tommy Boy Records; Deborah Mannis-Gardner, a music clearance expert who has cleared samples for the likes of Drake, Nicki Minaj and Eminem; and veteran producer Drumma Boy.
Silverman notes that 98% of music sampling is done without authorization, except for the 30 or 40 artists who can afford it. “Everyone else just sort of cheat or they’re in the middle class and they hire artists to replay their music, so it sounds like a repeat,” Silverman said. “But who is actually getting hurt is the original artists who aren’t getting money. Everything would be so much better if everything was free and people were encouraged to use old music to make new music. It’s also the best way that a younger generation can learn about old music, when some producer uses a record that is 30-40 years old and brings back to life someone that may have passed on.”
Most recently Zaytoven joined the Tracklib team. The Atlanta producer has been instrumental in cultivating the city’s trap sound. Up until recently, Zaytoven notes he never used samples for his work out fear of having to pay an absorbent amount of fees in licensing.
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Paul McCartney Rabbit Hole - Swedemason
Swedemason is back! This is an absolute marvel of music sampling,