The age of recycling in the world of music: Sampling

Music is in an age of recycling, where new sounds incorporate the old, and tradition is repackaged as invention.

There is a growing trend in pop music where artists seem to pluck the strings of nostalgia when curating new bodies of work.

Familiar tunes, familiar voices, echoes of famous songs that came before them.

As we look to the charts right now, and the trajectory of music going forwards, it can be said that we are witnessing the rise of sampling in music.

Music News Blitz’s Isaac James breaks down everything you need to know.