Travel blogger Matt Harding (Where the Hell is Matt) traced a sample around the world to its origin:
I went to the Solomon Islands to research the origins of Rorogwela, a traditional folk song that was sampled in Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest and reused in my dancing videos.
In the years 1969/1970, the ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp [...]

Michael S. Schneider, author of A Beginner’s Guide To Constructing The Universe, has published an interesting analysis of the Amen Break (probably the most important sample ever).
In his analysis, the Amen Break may be popular because of the way the Golden Ratio is found it the break’s timing:
Having looked at the geometry of the Golden [...]

This video effectively combines audio and video sampling.
Many people were filmed in St Michael’s church in Byker Newcastle, indidivudally, over the course of a day, playing single notes on various insruments to create a note bank that composer Andy Jackson used to create the score that you see and hear. Most of the participants had [...]