“Sampling” in music is popular – but it can be expensive – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio

Have you ever heard a song – perhaps on the radio or blaring over the speakers at a night club and thought: “How on earth have I heard this before?”. Then you may hear a song that is a “sample”. Recycling is trendy, even in music. According to Tracklib, a service that offers licensing of music for sampling and reuse, between 15 and 20 percent of the most popular songs in the world since 2009 contain samples. Perhaps you have heard sampling in Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”, which is sampled from Queen and David Bowie’s classic “Under Pressure”. Had to pay 50,000 dollars For music industry strategist Stein Bjelland, the meeting with sampling was an expensive affair. The band Getaway People recorded an album in 1997, where they collected a total of eleven songs. And it would prove to be expensive. Music industry strategist Stein Bjelland. Photo: Hanne Tveit – We didn’t realize that we had to clear them. So to get the record released, we even ended up paying five times as much as it cost to record the record. So we paid a solid Norwegian annual salary to be allowed to use eleven small sound clips. – How much do we talk? – We paid 50,000 dollars that time. So it was a very expensive lesson for us, and something we didn’t do again. He said that sampling stretches back as far as the 70s. But that there were other routines then. The band Getaway People had to pay large sums for the sampling they did in 1997. Photo: Patrick Demarchelier / Sony – In the beginning it was free for all. It was all Texas. People used what they had, and no one thought about it. Then you realized that there is someone here who makes a lot of money from other people’s intellectual property, so it had to be regulated. Kanye West is known for sampling. Hear when he sampled Ray Charles. – A tribute – I think it’s a very creative way to unfold musically. It will be a bit like those who sew old curtains into beautiful dresses. That’s what Anna Nor Sørensen, journalist at news P3 and host of the podcast Musikkrommet, says. – It is also a way of paying tribute to one’s sources of inspiration, and quoting works one is inspired by. Anna Nor SørensenProgram leader in Musikkrommet on news P3 Favorite sample song: Holding on (2012) by Flume. The sample from I Can’t Turn You Loose (1977) by Anthony White. Jakob Naustdal Program leader in Musikkrommet on news P3 Favorite sample song: The Art of Peer Pressure (2012) by Kendrick Lamar, which is sampled from Helt alene (2011) by Suspekt . Co-host Jakob Naustdal in Musikkrommet agrees. – I think it’s a fantastic way to make music. It is creative, exciting and a great way to show respect to the sources of inspiration, while at the same time shaping something completely new. – Is it a tribute or is it laziness? – I think it’s a tribute. But I think it’s a question you will get different answers to depending on who you ask, says Naustdal. Did you get caught up when Madonna sampled a song by Abba? Interpolation – cheaper to get away with? Sampling is one thing, but interpolation is also something that is used frequently in music. – It is not unusual to mix sampling and interpolation. Sampling is using something that already exists and using the recording in your own work. But with interpolation, you record it again. You can take the melody, but you make it anew, says Sørensen. Listen to Arif and Ballinciaga’s song, which is interpolated by Modjo. – Is it easier to get away with interpolation than sampling? – In any case, it is cheaper. There are not as many people who have to be paid or with whom the rights have to be cleared. But it really depends on who you interpolate, says Sørensen. Because things don’t always go according to plan. The music group Beathoven released the song “Primadonna” in autumn 2022, which took Norway by storm. The song was interpolated from Marina and the Diamonds’ song of the same name. The song did not live long. Beathoven at the P3 action 2022. Photo: Kim Erlandsen / news The P3 group was actually forced to change the song twice due to copyright. – I think that’s really crazy. I love the original by Primadonna, and think they had taken the Marina song and paid tribute to him. But it is clear that it will take a while for a trio from Norway to get a response from a major international artist, says Sørensen. – It’s going crazy if you’re not completely sure of the law in it. You have to sample more clearly, and you have to do that with everyone who has the rights. And there can be quite a few people, says Naustdal. What do you think about sampling? 🎶 It’s so cool! A proper tribute to old songs 🎼 I haven’t heard of it until now, but I like it 🎤 New artists should come up with new things! 🥱 Show result Published 17.11.2024, at 08.00



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