Sampling involves recording or "sampling" a phrase or sound from an existing song and incorporating it into a new work. The theme from The Price is Right and songs by De La Soul and The Beastie Boys in the 1980s were some of the earliest examples of digital sampling influencing music by reusing sounds from previous decades. The song "La Di Da Di" by Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh is one of the most frequently sampled tunes due to its memorable and recognizable nature. Sampling allows generations of artists to preserve and build upon each other's music over time.

1. Mark Ronson:
How Sampling Changed Music
How music sampling has
influenced the modern
music industry and why
that’s not a bad thing.

2. Sampling
Sampling is the method which a
particular phrase or sound of a
given song is recorded or
“sampled” and added to an
original piece of work.

3. Popular Tunes
30 Years ago the first digital
samplers began to influence
music. The theme from the
Price is Right, artists like De La
Soul and The Beastie Boys ……
All looted their sound from
decades of previous music.

4. Slick Rick and
Doug E. Fresh –
“La Di Da Di”
The song La Di Da Di by Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh is the 5th
most sampled tune today. It is versatile, easy to remember, and
recognizable which makes it a great choice to be sampled.

5. How Sampling Effects Music
Generations of artists now
preserve each others music as
a result of sampling.

6. The Modern La Di Da Di
In 2013, Miley Cyrus released the
single “We Can’t Stop” which
featured a sample of the Slick Rick
and Doug E. Fresh Tune “La Di Da
Di”, an original tune was released in
1985….seven years before Cyrus was
even born.

7. Sampling is a viable art form
“We live in the post sampling
era…we take what we love and we
build on them”
-Mark Ronson