Sampling for hiphop from old movies

[gsilbers]

have anyone sampled old movies or regular movies?

do you just get a snip it of the music and load into your sampler?

and the load difrent parts of difrent clips and kinda play your own chord and hit stabs?

or get whole melody line or spoken word and risk a lawsuit?

[terrytee]

i do that shit all the time, i tend to look you for something that has a groove, loop it put a beat and bass to dat shit then am good to go, when i say look for something a good sample especially a groove will stand out like a sore thumb. If it has speech and its part of the groove i always leave it in.

To be honest i don't think about clearance when using any samples, If you feel you got a huge hit you should find a way to replay it and change it just enough as not to get a lawsuit. Remember in order to take action it will cost the plaintiff several thousands dollars and if you only sell a couple of thousand units this is pointless for them, not a chance in hell that they will do anything to stop you.

If your sample is obscure enough or you have been cleaver enough in manipulating it no one will find out what it is. As said i use film samples ,if fact more than records, but my other passion apart from music is film, (see the spinell avatar) i collect film that is completely out of print unavailable besides earlier 80s bad greek video prints slung on to dvdr copied and sold to the pirates profit who never gets a lawsuit I.E. no one really owns it any more the company that did went it to liquidation years ago, also i can think of a lot of countries without copy write laws.

[gsilbers]

well, usually the rights get transfer to someone else if the movie studio goes broke. like orion.
but nevermind that.

so what do you call a groove when sampling? do you mean an actual drum loop or like a brass and string cut at a point that when looped t sounds dope/?

so you dont sample like a small chunk and add it to your sampler?
i thought this was more common practice.

the stuff ive done doing it this way just doesnt sound that good. sound lo-fi but in a bad way.

[terrytee]

i am all about the loop, not so much drum loops as i make my own drums from scratch that will have a solid groove so yes just a loop, a refrain a melody or anything that seems to be screaming out to start back at the beginning after the the 2,4 or even 1 bar is over.
Low fi i don't care as i say my drums which will be made on my drum machine will mask it, in fact the more low fi the sample the ruff-er the out come. I also loop and sample in the drum machine, only transfer to my computer when mixing, but the same thing could be done on a computer.

P.s this is a legit company that have been selling bootlegged films since i was a kid, straight from video some time 4-5 generation with no lawsuits, there 1 of 10 us based companies if can think of from the top of my head.
DVDR - Newest Releases

P.s i am not in to US films that much..... straight up euro trash horror that sold 10 films is my stezzz LOL

[gsilbers]

damn!!! thats very obscure...


except for 1984 and day after tomorrow.


but nice.