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Stealing a four-second moment so well that it becomes a new song's spine.
means Taking a piece of an existing recording and reusing it as a building block in a new track.
from From the verb 'sample,' to taste a small portion; the studio sense exploded with 1980s digital samplers like the Fairlight, which let producers capture and replay any sound on a keyboard.
Most sampledThe Amen Break: six seconds, millions of songs.
Legal costUncleared samples have sunk entire album releases.
Beyond musicStatisticians sample populations to guess the whole.