The original recording or machine.
A playable sample-lineage archive
Hear where
Hear where
the hits
came from.
Play the original sample, find the exact moment, and compare what producers made from it.
151 playable sources
5 free exhibitions
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The exact passage producers sampled.
The records that transformed it.
Five free exhibitions
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01How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
Breaks, voices, scratches, and phrases.
→ 02The Drum Machines That Changed MusicThe electronic voices behind entire genres.
→ 03The Most Sampled BasslinesGrooves that carried across generations.
→ 04The Most Sampled Hooks & RiffsBrass, keys, and guitar turned into new hooks.
→ 05The Sounds of Jungle & RaveBreaks, hits, and textures pushed into new worlds.
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