May 10, 2005
The History of Sampling
Despite the fact that it's a Java applet (the first comment on the link to this at MetaFilter was "BIG ASS JAVA APPLET," followed by a bunch of apologies and general gnashing of teeth), The History of Sampling is an interactive way of looking at links among older source materials to their sampling in newer music.
Above, for example, is a (much-shrunken) graph showing songs that shows two songs off Herbie Hancock's 1973 "Headhunters" being resampled by Digital Underground, Diggable Planets, US3, and others between 1988 and 2000.
[via metafilter.com]
Posted by johndan at May 10, 2005 02:33 PM | TrackBack