As a Hip Hop fan it's interesting to learn the relevance of sampling from the days when it was virtually unknown by publishing companies up to the present day where laws are strict and record companies are making a large income from artists who sample their music. When it comes down to it new laws and technology have affected the music a great deal over the years, however many artists today are still finding a way to bring the nostalgic value of past recordings to their music by digging harder and producing new music from collages of sampled sounds. One of my favorite producers Hank Shocklee gives his take on the significance of sampling in this audio interview with On The Media.

Jamie York of "On The Media" magazine talks to Girl Talk, Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad and Duke Law professor James Boyle about two decades of sampling by examining both sides of the law. Twenty years ago a series of lawsuits criminalized the hip-hop sampling of artists like Hank Shocklee and Public Enemy, yet two decades later artists like Girl Talk have found success breaking those same sampling laws. Hear from both artists and learn their methodology of sampling in this audio interview.