Dedicated students of ’90s hip-hop revere and revel in the soul sample chop. (For those illiterate in hip-hop speak, chopping is when a sample is cut into pieces to be used instrumentally in a track, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In electronic music there are many genres which employ chopped-up, interestingly transposed and ...

The role that sampling has played in democratising music making can’t be understated. Since the technology became widely available in the late-’80s and early-’90s it has offered a workaround for ...