[HN Gopher] The way Daft Punk flipped the sample for One More Time
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       The way Daft Punk flipped the sample for One More Time
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2021-02-22 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | abrookewood wrote:
       | FYI this was most likely posted as a result of their just
       | announced retirement: https://pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-call-
       | it-quits/
        
       | 1-6 wrote:
       | That's pretty neat. I wasn't aware that Daft Punk's One More Time
       | was based on small segments of someone else's song.
       | 
       | If someone can find a good subsample beat from an original song,
       | then I bet ML can iterate and do something similar. We'll soon
       | have augmented music producers presented with 100's of sequences
       | and then they can simply curate to find what's pleasing. It'll be
       | an interesting side-project.
        
         | CptFribble wrote:
         | A huge percentage of hip-hop and electronic music is
         | essentially this, sampling and remixing segments of other
         | songs.
         | 
         | Old school DJs since forever have been known to keep absolutely
         | massive libraries of records going back to the beginning of
         | sound recording, and to actually listen to them constantly -
         | always searching for new and interesting sounds that can be
         | used in new music.
         | 
         | I always found this aspect and type of music production so
         | interesting - at this point in human history, more sounds and
         | music have been made than almost anyone can listen to and
         | appreciate on their own, so in a way DJs and remix artists are
         | like archeologists, digging through a century of recordings to
         | uncover, polish, and present a rare gem of sound in a new
         | setting.
        
         | sethhochberg wrote:
         | While there absolutely are (great) artists in the dance music
         | world recording their own acoustic instrumental riffs or
         | vocals, I'd feel comfortable betting that a majority of the
         | tracks we know and love that feature recorded parts like that
         | are sampling someone else. Its part of the art form, and
         | certainly anyone who has ever DJ'd is familiar with the idea of
         | making something new and great from someone else's initial
         | creation.
         | 
         | Dance music is samples all the way down - sometimes even
         | samples of other tracks that sampled some other genre.
        
         | da768 wrote:
         | https://www.whosampled.com/
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Current related thread:
       | 
       |  _Daft Punk Break Up_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26225201 - Feb 2021 (304
       | comments)
       | 
       | Past thread about One More Time:
       | 
       |  _How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011035 - Jan 2014 (94
       | comments)
        
       | jaywalk wrote:
       | If you're not familiar with sampling, I guess I could see how it
       | could seem crazy. But it's really not crazy at all, it's
       | incredibly basic.
       | 
       | Which isn't to take anything away from Daft Punk. Just the way
       | this Twitter user described it.
        
         | abrookewood wrote:
         | The process itself might be simple, but they are skilled
         | artisans of it. "Anyone can do it" ... but very few do it as
         | well as them.
        
         | happytoexplain wrote:
         | From a layman's perspective, it's impressive, but more
         | importantly, the transformation is _surprising_ , especially
         | considering the specificity of the choices that apparently have
         | to be made. Maybe he was speaking from a layman's perspective?
        
         | alexilliamson wrote:
         | This was my impression too. It's literally just chopping the
         | sample, no?
        
         | polyterative wrote:
         | yea it really is
        
       | AceJohnny2 wrote:
       | If you liked that, here's a fun video about building The
       | Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up from the original samples:
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/Lo67bWkNEiE
       | 
       | (fun fact, I originally found this video on another video hosting
       | service before Youtube became the all-encompassing behemoth it is
       | today)
        
       | ajxs wrote:
       | Other people have already pointed out how common these techniques
       | are. Here's my personal favorite video about the construction of
       | a sample based track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ndtwj1byII
        
       | jonnycomputer wrote:
       | Must be some subtlety here that I'm not getting. Seems some
       | pretty straightforward chopping to me (do appreciate the viz
       | though).
        
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