Making Sure It Hasn't Been Sampled

www.whosampled.com

heres a cool blog for 50 tracks thats been sampled in hip hop. It streams the sample and the beat that used the sample.

http://best.complex.com/lists/Kon-Amir- ... p-History/

Ruslanio wrote:Shazam, that's a great idea, if you have an iphone. How diverse is the database on it though, anyone know?

supposedly 8 million tracks+ .... but it wasnt recognizing a lot of my 70's jazz when i did recent checks

Im sorry to say but you should forget about sites like that and just do whatever you feels thats good. Letting a site decide with what you can be creative is being not creative at all.

IMHO sites like these are to be avoided like a whore with a coldsore

^^^I def feel you on that. I know those sites but once i found them out they started to discourage me so I stopped looking at them. Times when I sampled and they were banging!! Then I made the mistake of checking to see if anyone else used them and eventually people did and actually sounded better. I felt depressed after that. lol **** them sites!

yeah not site to live by just use them as ref, i usually use them when i need a song and can't remember the name or the song, you have to know one or the other in order for them to realy help you out.

i havent listen to the radio in 20yrs so i def dont know what who used and what was used,i 'll just make a beat and it it sounds teh same as the one i know then it's time to change it.if my music sounds like so&so well i never heard and well i;m on the right track,but i derf dont want to sound like someone else

illiterati wrote:

Ruslanio wrote:Shazam, that's a great idea, if you have an iphone. How diverse is the database on it though, anyone know?

supposedly 8 million tracks+ .... but it wasnt recognizing a lot of my 70's jazz when i did recent checks

Yehh, I doubt that I-Phone mic can pick it up any good.

Ruslanio wrote:
Yehh, I doubt that I-Phone mic can pick it up any good.

nah the mics fine - its just down to whether the tracks are on thier database. i think most of the database is made up of music that got a cd release/re-release, not rare/semi-rare vinyl only recordings