sampling

in music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically manipulated tape loops orvinyl records on a phonograph by the late 1960s, the use of tape loop sampling influenced the development of minimalist music and the production ofpsychedelic rock and jazz fusion.