The Sample Life

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
It may be fashionable to "go green" right now, but a different kind of recycling has been an innovative force in the music world for 25 years. Today, three pioneers of sample-based music talk about the risks and rewards of making new music from old material. In the 1980s, Steven Stein broke ground in sampling and beat-making under the name Steinski. In the mid-'90s, DJ Shadow released "Entroducing," an album made up entirely of samples. And these days, the sample-mad artist known as Girl Talk is sailing the "mash-up" concept into uncharted waters.

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