Hear a second or two of Vernon Burch’s “Get Up,” and you’re back in 1990; of “Balance and Rehearsal” from the JBL sound-test album Session, and you’re back in 1999; of Eddie Johns’ “More Spell on You,” and you’re back in 2001.

What, you don’t know any of those songs? Perhaps you’re more familiar with them in a different form: chopped up, pitched up or down, and looped over and over again in the songs  “Groove Is in the Heart” by Deee-Lite, “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim, and “One More Time” by Daft Punk. None of those hits would be conceivable without the clips they incorporate from older recordings, those named here and a variety of others besides.

Three and a half decades ago, few ordinary listeners would have understood how a song could be constructed out of other songs; today, most of us know it as the technology and art of sampling. We tend to associate it with hip-hop, and indeed, last year we featured here on Open Culture Tracklib’s video on the most iconic hip-hop samples of the past half-century.

via Kottke

by Colin Marshall

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