the lack of sampling in grime .is something i find curious and interesting. i feel like i've heard enough to be confident in the assumption that there seems to be an attitude of deep reluctance to use samples in this music. with Jungle they were obtuse and obvious, but grime being more minimal there seems less scope for this, plus it would be rather cliched. but i could be wrong and there must be some examples out there of grime tracks with big samples. some questions then:
1) are there any big grime tracks that are sample-heavy (whether beats, strings, dialogue, effects or other)?
2) if not what do you think prompted this move away from sampling? can it be linked to the similar shift in hip-hop that saw the Neptunes, Dre and others get #1 hits without building the tracks around familiar samples (what is the earliest example of this again incidentally? i can't remember if this was asked before but have a feeling it was).
3) is this the first self-facilitating genre (either in the British 'underground dance continuum' or more generally) to emerge without this reliance on sampling?
4) is this rejection of sampling in fact the key factor in grime's critical approval and authenticity? an admirable statement? or is it not quite as conscious as all that?
1) are there any big grime tracks that are sample-heavy (whether beats, strings, dialogue, effects or other)?
2) if not what do you think prompted this move away from sampling? can it be linked to the similar shift in hip-hop that saw the Neptunes, Dre and others get #1 hits without building the tracks around familiar samples (what is the earliest example of this again incidentally? i can't remember if this was asked before but have a feeling it was).
3) is this the first self-facilitating genre (either in the British 'underground dance continuum' or more generally) to emerge without this reliance on sampling?
4) is this rejection of sampling in fact the key factor in grime's critical approval and authenticity? an admirable statement? or is it not quite as conscious as all that?