Sample, lend, rip off…

Previously I have written about sampling by linking to a video showing how Prodigy’s superhot Smack My Bitch Up was put together. That shows us how sampling is turned to an artform.

The other way to sample tracks is to have straight part, a loop from another track. This is particularly common, or rather used, way in house music in general.

Let me give an example. You must have heard the sickest, weirdest craziest track out there at the moment: Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand.

It’s been sampled from… well, there’s two options. It’s either a Boney M track or from german origin Nighttrain – Hallo Bimmelbahn.

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Podcast 012: Chillout edition

Downtempo mix by Endal.

Time for something different. Episode 012 is a chillout only mix. One hour with both classics and brand new downtempo.

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This episode contains brand new chill from artists like Commix, Quarrel and Gramatik. But you’re also about to be served chillout classics from the likes of Jon Hopkins, Bent and Boards of Canada.

Endal, the host of the Innotune podcast, has done the selection and mixing. The result is a calming experience. Download, share and enjoy!

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R.I.P. Trance music

The melodic, baleric and lasttly, generic, genre of trance music passed away in the year of 2010 at a uknown age after several years of illness. Trance music will always hold a special place in our hearts, but will not be missed thanks to uncreative artists.

At a young age, trance music was a fresh breath of air in a rock and pop world. It was breaking the “rules” of music and was raised by persons such as Astral Projection, Dance 2 Trance, Orbital, Oliver Lieb and Sven Väth. Trance music was breaking grounds at a age when it still was wearing diapers – just like the people who listened to it eventually needed after subcombing to the chemical usage.

Trance music quickly grew up, but experienced a troublesome time. It was struggling to find its place in this world and trailed a lot of paths trying to find itself. Hard trance, progressive trance, baleric trance, club trance (?) was some of the ways trance tried to find it´s path. Trance even joined dance music, and after this trance never was the same again.

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