As in sound engineering one is able to distort and manipulate the sound in order to arrange the entire track. Breakbeats, drums, sound effects and vocals are extracted, modified and re-integrated into an entirely new track. The samples becomes as close to or as distorted from the sampled element itself. By breaking down the N.W.A song, Straight Outta Compton we can understand the way sampling has been used in other fields of design.
N.W.A take the famously used Amen Break beat, a seven second drum rhythm sampled in a loop as the core of their track. The Amen breakbeat, recorded in one take by the amen brothers has been sampled in over thousands of songs, making it one of the most used samples.
Whether it is the smallest beat section or a repeating melody the artist is designing across a blurred line between plagiarism and original work. The musician carefully extracts moments to precisely manipulate and re-appropriate in their own sound.
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