Michael Henderson, former bassist for the late Miles Davis, filed 2 lawsuits (on the same day) for unauthorized sampling of the song Riding from his 1979 album Do It All. On July 6, Henderson sued Snoop Dogg (aka Cordozar Calvin Broadus) and Universal Music for use of the track on a mixtape single Flashbacks. Similarly, [...]

In 2009, Montreal-based producer, Tor, released Illinoize –  a free remix tape that samples instrumentals from Sufjan Stevens 2005 LP Illinoise, and mashes them with the likes of Aesop Rock, Big Daddy Kane, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), C.L. Smooth, Outkast, Brother Ali, and Grand Puba. Almost a year and a half later, the compilation has [...]

Audio from Nate Harrison’s Can I Get An Amen? (2004), an installation that “unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music,” the Amen Break. Harrison explains the evolution of the world’s most recognizable beat break — from b-side drum solo to raw material used in decades [...]