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For those of you DJs out here that also dabble in producing this blog post is just for you, for those of you that are interested in production and sampling this is also for you.

Following up on monday’s popular “Why New DJs Should Start on Vinyl“, we thought it’d be good to look at vinyls importance for producers and DJs. Sampling goes beyond a digital music collection and the library of music production software. It’s easy to fall into the trap of working with the same giant sample library time and time again.

Yet there are thousands of records that have been long forgotten and that aren’t available digitally. They could use a little shake of the dust after the time they spent waiting for you on the shelves. Today Tiann discusses why producers and DJs should start sampling vinyl and tips for guiding their search.

What Is Sampling?

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Sampling is when producers or DJs take a portion, or “sample”, of one sound recording (or several) and reuse it as an instrument or a loop in a different song. Producers may capture a loop and alter the pitch (Wu Tang and early Kanye West productions were famous for this) or they may chop up the loop and record a new arrangement.

There are nearly endless ways that samples can be manipulated, to the point where the original source becomes unrecognizable. Samples can be used as supporting elements of a song or they can be the foundation for the entire track. The easiest way to understand how sampling can be used is by listening to examples. Watch the video below for a side by side comparison of samples that were used in numerous tracks on Daft Punk’s Discovery album:

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