What makes a song or album SampleWorthy?
That’s a very good question. To sum it up, we dig into A LOT of music around BLS, a good majority of which ends up between our headers for you to enjoy but every so often we stumble across music that we normally wouldn’t listen to. I mean, how else does an Audiophile get exposed to new favorites? You sometimes have to take a chance on not liking a new find in order to discover if it has any replay value at all. That’s it in a nutshell. If you never click play, then your tastes won’t expand.
So in order for a song or album to be SampleWorthy, there has to be something within the track that just stands out. It could be a guitar lick or a bass line that sounds perfect to make a loop of or a sung vocal or spoken word that would be excellent for a hook or chorus. It also helps if the music has never been (at least from our research) sampled before.
“Quiet Houses”
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The track above is from the Seattle Indie band Fleet Foxes and while another one of their songs has been sampled recently, this gem remains surprisingly untouched and I can’t imagine why, when all it would take is for a talented individual or production group to freak it the right way.
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