Practice hip-hop sampling with this interactive keyboard

Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste
Having previously charted hip-hop artists by their vocabularies (and compared those vocabularies to Shakespeare and Moby Dick), Matt Daniels is back with another project that looks to recontextualize hip-hop. This time around he’s tackling the art of sampling, which repurposes existing songs into brand new ones. On his new site Sample Stitch, Daniels proves sampling is far more complicated than just cutting and pasting. Take for instance Jay-Z and Kayne West’s “Otis,” which not only samples an extended portion of Otis Redding’s “Try A Little Tenderness,” but also builds its whole beat from tiny portions of the song chopped up and rearranged.