Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that becomes the foundation for an entirely new genre. It’s wild how a forgotten ...

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The app WhoSampled just released an update that can make anybody a music historian. It now features helpful new technology that can completely digest a song’s samples, remixes and cover history. Read ...

Ever since technology took over the music industry, artists have been sampling from other artists nonstop. Folks have contrasting views about this phenomenon, as some view it as unoriginal and lazy, ...

WhoSampled, the service that identifies music samples, recently updated their iOS/Android app to include Shazam-style music recognition. Now when you hear a song playing in a bar or a store, you can ...

If you’re a music fan, here’s a site that you could lose yourself in for hours. With sampling (using clips of other people’s songs as part of a new song) commonplace in modern music, London-based ...

WhoSampled was acquired by Spotify, unlocking deeper music discovery tools while keeping the platform’s identity. WhoSampled was officially acquired by Spotify, marking a pivotal shift in how ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Does song discovery interest you? If so, you should be happy to learn that WhoSampled has just hit Google Play ...

Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...

Nate Dogg and Warren G in the “Regulate” music video (screen grab from YouTube) Last week the entire music world mourned the loss of all-time songwriting virtuoso Rod Temperton. While he’s most known ...

If you're a music junkie (especially in the electronic realm), there's a good chance that you've used WhoSampled to identify song samples, covers or remixes. So far, though, you've had to know the ...