May 20, 2005

The history of sampling. Ever wondered where you've heard that drum beat or guitar riff before? This may help! via BB

This cool little applet consists of a timeline upon which popular tracks are positioned. Clicking on them will show tracks which sampled them and clicking on these tracks will show other songs they sampled. Neato!

posted by Bondurant 19 years ago
  • Bondurant...you are a god )))!
  • Cool idea, and nifty graphic display, but... where's the search? I wanted to see all the Zepplin songs sampled by Fury in the Slaughterhouse.
  • This is a "fun" realtional map, but is not, REPEAT, is not "A History of Sampling." I don't have time right now to go into a lengthy explanation, but "remix culture" goes WAAAAAY BAAAACK before this map starts. What thi does do is show some links between who-sampled-what-on-which. Don't misread this as flingin' nanners. I like this map, even with its huge-ass Java load. JUst have seen it called "history" several times now, and it ain't. Is not. No.
  • Damn, can't get the Java to work. But it sounds like a neat way to organize things. As far as history, I am reminded of the Guide to Electronic Music (flash and a boatload o' audio) which has done the rounds before.
  • Yeah! Because my world history book contains every single event that ever happened in the world! Any world history book that doesn't go back that far is NOT A HISTORY BOOK.
  • Yeah! Because my world history book contains every single event that ever happened in the world! Any world history book that doesn't go back that far is NOT A HISTORY BOOK. posted by Mr. Knickerbocker at 02:56AM UTC on May 21, 2005 No, Mr. Smartypants. It isn't a history because all it contains is a list of related events without any framing information. If all a history book contained was a list of events and the people or groups involved, it would be a poor, poor history book. It might be a great map from which to teach people how to interpret history themselves, but it would not be "a history." And, to call something a history of sampling without any reference at all to how and from whom the practice derived is ahistorical. Nowhere did I say that it had to list every single event--but it lists no generative events at all.
  • a hysterical?
  • Nowhere did I say that it had to list every single event--but it lists no generative events at all. I want to point out to you that histories aren't required to list generative events to be histories, but I have a feeling you'd respond with "I never said they did" and then offer some excuse why this is not a history. You are the one who decide to get anal about whether this was a history or not. So let's get anal about it. There is at least one event from the history of sampling in this Java applet. That makes the Java applet a history. It's a frickin' timeline. The only way a timeline could possibly be ahistoric would be if the info contained on it was false. But you've never tried to claim that it contains false info; your complaint has been that it doesn't contain the info that you've decided is more important. Tough shit. No where has anyone claimed that it contains the origins of sampling, that's a fat strawman of your own making and completely irrelevant. It's not called the Origins of Sampling, quit acting like it is. You chose to get pedantic about the term "history", but even with a pedantic view, you're still wrong. It's a history of sampling, not the origins of sampling. Deal.