Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music

Re:Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music by a_bonobo on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:10PM (#37540161)

Streaming definitely destroyed sampling as a musical method: every sampled recording house wants their slice of the pie, and if the income is low as it is with streaming records, you minimise your sampling to keep more pie to yourself.

Many early great hip hop albums that rely heavily on sampling are not on streaming services because the sampled record companies can't come to an agreement, and I'm sure today's artists see the hassle and minimise their sampling.

Examples are Frank Ocean's 'Nostalgia, Ultra' and De La Soul's '3 Feet High and Rising'

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Re:Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music by Jonnston on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:17PM (#37540205)

De La Soul's discography came to streaming this year. Including 3 Feet High and Rising.

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Re:Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music by a_bonobo on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:49PM (#37540389)

Yes and it took a long time!

>De La Soul’s sampling artistry made digitizing the catalog they built over their career a monumental task, as samples previously cleared for use on vinyl, cassettes and CDs had to be redone for streaming.

https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2023/03/03/de-la-souls-music-cata...

My argument is that people would rather avoid doing this kind of thing

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Re:Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music by bobthepanda on Sunday September 17, 2023 @12:14AM (#37541465)

This is an interesting take. A lot of the big artists these days (Doja Cat, Megan thee Stallion, Charli XCX, to name a few) all heavily sample.

In some cases the new hits have multiple levels of sampling; Latto’s Big Energy has a remix with Mariah Carey’s Fantasy, and both sample Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love. Charli XCX interpolates both Hey Mickey and Robyn for her new song from the Barbie movie.

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Re:Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music by mhh__ on Sunday September 17, 2023 @01:03PM (#37547180)

They have the money to pay the bills. They're all either plants or giants.

The barbie soundtrack has a massive budget so you can just pay for the samples.

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Re:Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music by bobthepanda on Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:23PM (#37549484)

There are entire genres (hip hop, reggaeton, dancehall, etc.) that have sampling built into their DNA, and are still going strong, even outside the big acts. And they are still sampling, it's far from dead.

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