Original and Sampling

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Original noun - Something from which copies are made.

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Sampling and original are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sampling" instead a noun "Original".

Sampling noun - A number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole.

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Original and sampling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Original" instead a noun "Sampling".

Nearby Words: sample, sampler, sampled, samp

Sampling: Mostly from movies and other media instead of music, though the original version of "No W" sampled "O Fortuna".

Source: Music / Ministry
However, they like the sampling aesthetic so much that they continue to record and mix so their (original) songs sound like they were built from samples.

Source: Sampling
But that's not all; artists begun to sample different sources that would've been atypical for early vaporwave, sampling techniques became more abstract, multiple samples from different sources were combined, some artists forwent sampling altogether and wrote original music instead, and so on.

Source: Vaporwave

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