Snaps

To what extent do sampling practices maintain or disrupt an exoticized ideal of indigenous populations? The Brazilian research collective GENuSom confronts two sampling strategies performed by a Brazilian worldwide EDM artist and a indigenous rap crew from Brazil.

Starting out with sampling the choral tradition of Sacred Harp, the producer COOL FOR YOU came to understand that practices such as «sampling as critique» are invariably marked by contradictory attachments to their sources and therefore require a more complex analysis.

This article examines the aesthetics of «sampling the political» in contemporary Indian electronic music. A journey through various ways of sampling political words and speeches. These artists are borne of a tendency to resist, to subvert, and to disobey norms of sampling.

Music producer Eomac describes how his sampling strategy has changed over time. Starting out, he used any sound available. Now, as an experienced musician, he is confronted by complex ethical questions. Today, he emphasizes the intent behind sampling as key.

Cristiano Figueiró and Henrique Souza Lima created a track made by sampling, editing, and remixing recordings from a performance made by the Brazilian group Côco de Umbigada (CdU). Here, they contextualize the CdU as a cultural and political agent.

How does the relationship of artists with their gear affect the composition? Listen to a mind bending mixtape-collage with statements about gear in electronic music compostion, eerie sounds and weird loops by the Peruvian musician and sound researcher Ale Hop.

2,816’000 people are suffering from a mental disorder in Ghana. In her essay, Ghanaian journalist Akosua Hanson reflects on how the perspective of wholesomeness in African philosophies could tackle this problem.

The Romanian music genre manele has recently undergone a very postmodern reception. Widely shared through memes seemingly ironically, the genre could also be the predecessor of a new counterculture.