For Simon Reynolds sampladeila “… layers and concatenates musical fragments from different eras, genres and places to create a timewarping pseudo-event, something that could never possibly have happened.”
While written before the upturn in lo-fi’s cultural standing, and predominately focussing on techno and hip-hop, I think it is an apt description for the music of The Samps.
Merging the micro-editing and warped lifts of early hip-hop and contemporary dance, The Samps make greater use of the “-adelia”, their tunes closer to the (purple) haze of the first wave of psychedelic rock.
Recently I’ve been swimming in Samps. The band returned with the release/leak of Peppergood. Some of them make up part of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, a band that are dominating my “recently played” menu.
More anomalously, Sampdoria finished 4th in Serie A, their best finish in years and I've just finished Reynolds’ Bring The Noise, though the above quote comes from the equally excellent Energy Flash.
Whatever the cause of the samp tsunami, if you haven’t sampled The Samps it’s high time.
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