luv2runxc wrote:
To whomoevever's hating on sampling, I don't understand why it's okay to play a guitar someone else made through an amp someone else made into a microphone somebody else made, but taking sounds someone else made and rearranging/mashing them up is wrong. Open your mind a bit.
Wow, man. Not even close. Even though someone else fashioned the guitar, YOU still have to PLAY it, which requires some musical ability.
Giving someone a bunch of instruments is like handing them a blank canvas - they can go in any direction that the instrument allows. Sampling is a lot more limiting. Sure you can chop the sample up, change the pitch, EQ it one way or another, but that stuff is easy compared to actually MAKING the original music. How good can you feel about your final product knowing that it was solely inspired by and consists of someone else's hard work/talent? Sure you can be inspired by music, but it should cause you to go make your OWN stuff (i.e. channel that inspiration into playing an instrument, writing a song, whatever).
I don't hate all the end results of sampling (hats off to DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, Dilla, Daft Punk, etc.) - especially people who really flip things and exhibit that they have some of their own soul, but when you get clowns like Puff Daddy (who just looped The Police and David Bowie tracks and put rap drums under them) and Kanye West (jacking samples without obtaining permission), you have to really appreciate the people that can do it on their own.