Sampling is the worst thing to ever happen to music.
Not only does it make music more generic but it also destroys the communal nature of music. Classical music takes an entire orchestra to perform. Folk music was meant to be played live with audience participation. Sampling makes the producer an absolute oligarch which is furthers the alienation of the working-class from music.
So why is sampling so celebrated by academic elites?
In the 1940s the CIA launched the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a think-tank designed to channel funds into the anti-Soviet left. They funded artists who appeared "leftist" but were actually anti-Marxist and anti-proletarian. This included propping up hideous and meaningless modern "art" as a means of alienating the working-class from the arts and ensuring art could only be appreciated by pompous cultured elites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD49vdreggw
The CIA and the academic elites whom it funds have been behind the rise of sample-based music for this exact same reason. This “music” is disoriented, disorganized, and ugly and creates a sense of resentment and nihilism in its listeners. The same people who think J Dilla (or The Alchemist) pushing buttons on a sampler was “innovative” are the same people who think Jackson Pollock splattering paint on a canvas was “innovative.” And this is precisely why cultured elites promote rap and sample-based "music": they want to demoralize you and alienate you so you see the world as nothing but ugliness and lose all faith in your fellow man.
Art under real socialism is about celebrating the beauty of everyday working people and festering a sense of solidarity and brotherhood. The USSR made beautiful music. China bans rap and gets its school children learning real music, namely classical. They don’t give kids MPCs to learn how to “sample” but give them actual instruments. That’s because real socialism isn’t about loving the gutter but about advancing humanity
