As a technics mixologist and music lover, I have no problems with sampling per say. A DJ has no soul for creativity if he’s not hashing up two sounds or blending two tracks to create a new dancable or audible sound. Some of our modern artists wouldn’t be where they are today with out learning, practicing and playing from music they’ve heard before. Next generation electronic artists as well, wouldn’t be here today if earlier musicians didn’t pave the way with their great hooks, beats or tracks. The development of DJing has its roots from original hip hop artists that looped and sampled the best part of a track or break and rhymed, danced, breaked or rapped over the result.
I also see the need to license and pay your way for the use of samples if you’re going to profit off them yourself in your music, however, there needs to be a standardization and limit to this because there’s so much good shit out there, you can’t throw roadblocks up like paying for licensing for up and coming artists that can’t afford to pay such royalties.
In the case of Daft Punk, an electronic artist I’m familiar with and a fan, they have paid their licensing on sampled music and here’s a video mixing both the DP track with the original artist for you to get an idea of where the sample came from:
The samples were spotted by http://www.ishkur.com/samples/ and the music was collected by http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/02/. http://www.musicthing.co.uk did the video editing.
Here’s to more sampling in the future…